Chicken Stir Fry

A couple Sundays ago I had my first bridal shower. We played a fun little game where all the ladies had to answer random, silly, and quirky questions about me. One of the questions was what is Kayty's favorite thing to make? The correct answer is Chicken stir fry and I realized i have yet to share this wonderful recipe with you all!

The recipe is quite simple and I love it because you get your protein, whole grain, vegetables, and healthy oils all in one! So good! The only thing missing is some fruit and you could add that as a side dish. This dish is sure to fill you up because its packed with fiber from the veggies and rice. And the protein from the chicken gives you an extra boost of fullness.

So without further ado I give you chicken stir fry

CHICKEN STIR FRY

1 lb. Chicken (grilled, pan fried, oven baked, just make sure it's cooked)
1 bag frozen stir fry veggies (you can choose fresh if you want I just prefer frozen when I'm in a pinch for time)
Brown rice

The directions couldn't be simpler:
Cook the chicken. Set aside in a bowl
Either steam or fry the the veggies with a little olive oil
Prepare the rice

Mix it all together, if you wish to add your favorite stir-fry sauce please do! But I prefer it just plain with a bit of salt and pepper :)

Hope you enjoy one of my favorite go to recipes!

Kayt

Honey Goat Cheese Frosting

If you have allergies or need/want to avoid dairy or any other food, you know that sometimes it can be hard to find/make substitutes for the things you love to eat. For a while now, I have been searching for a good dairy and soy free substitute for cream cheese to make cheesecake and cream cheese frosting for cinnamon rolls (yum!).

I have the fortunate ability to eat goat cheese. Some people with dairy allergies can tolerate goat cheese. The proteins in goat's milk are much smaller than that in cow's milk, making it easier to digest.

I had found a great goat cheese at Costco about a year ago, but over the winter they stopped stocking it. I had totally taken it for granted and never wrote down the name of the brand. It was a perfect substitute, it tasted exactly like regular cream cheese...it was a sad day when I looked for it and they didn't have it.

Anyways, I was at Costco recently and saw they had a new goat cheese they were selling. Since my family was making cinnamon rolls to celebrate the holiday, I decided to buy it and see if it met my standards.

IT WAS DELICIOUS! It didn't taste exactly like cream cheese, but it had a sweet, slightly tangy taste to it. I would highly suggest making it. I think I might actually like it more than the regular recipe we use with cream cheese.

Here's the recipe, feel free to try it out, you won't be disappointed. :)

Honey Goat Cheese Frosting

1 C butter
3 C powdered sugar
4 oz. honey goat cheese
2 t vanilla
1 T milk
1 pinch of salt

Beat all ingredients together until fluffy. Spread frosting on whatever you want!

Food for thought, or for Exercise in this Case

How would you feel about knowing how long it would take to run/walk off the food you ate at a restaurant?

After the health care bill was upheld by the Supreme Court last year, one of the requirement was for all restaurants with more than 20 locations to post the calorie content of all of their menu items.

To me, I was thinking "Hey that's great! Maybe people will start paying more attention to what they are eating, and rethink that 900 calorie sandwich."

Unfortunately this isn't what happened. In the past year since the calories have been posted on the menus there has been no real change in what people are choosing.

CNN reported this week that TCU has been researching if people would choose foods differently if the amount of time it would take to burn off the foods were posted on the menu. According to their research, this decreased the amount of calories the individuals ordered and the amount of calories they ate.

Personally I think this is a phenomenal idea and might be a better way to start getting people's attention at how many calories are in their fast food choices. Rather than saying 1800 calories in a side of french fries and hamburger, which some people a little nutrition education may be able to make sense of in the grand scheme of what we eat everyday, almost all of us can comprehend 6 hours of brisk walking to walk off that amount.

Have you chosen foods differently since the calories have been posted? What do you think about posting the time it would take to burn off the calories?