5 Convenient Chicken Casseroles Under 350 Calories

Rincing meat when cooked properly should be all you need to be safe. Handling and proper storage is also key. Rincing has a higher chance of cross contamination. Always wash your hands after and before handling any meat. I held a food handling permit after the Jack in the box Ecoli deaths in the Seattle area in the 90s. The state got real strict with food safty after that. You cant rince away bacteria anyway.

Whenever I buy or cook a whole chicken or turkey, I boil the skin and bones after I use it. I generally get a wonderful poultry broth and freeze it in 1 cup increments. It tastes so much better that store bough broth and works great for casseroles, gravy and soups.

Do the vegetables have to be frozen can they be fresh? My daughter loves broccoli and I would rather use fresh than frozen broccoli

Excellent! Tried today. I did notice the step adding the cheese in the video and the printed recipe were different. I added the cheese according to printed recipe. Regardless, I do love your recipes especially your Lasagna which is now a holiday tradition. Thank you.

I tried this for Christmas dinner. I have to say this was unbelievably good!!!! Thank you for suggesting the grilled onions on top. That made a whole world of difference. Thanks again!!

This is such a great and easy weeknight meal! Love it! (I also love to kick it up a bit with a few dashes of Tabasco! Give me some heat! lol!)

I don’t wash my chicken. I went to culinary school which was taught by chefs from the Cooking Institute of America (CIA) and they said “don’t wash your chicken. It is not necessary, as long as you wash your cutting board or container the chicken was in and you wash your hands” and I never forgot that!

I can ‘t wait to try this dish. So gad to find a brown rice and mozzarella casserole, rather then white rice and Velveeta, I would imagine you could add other veggies to this like coli flower, zucchini, maybe even egg plant, but that might be pushing it with my kids.;)

The end of that soap pc you cut(to clean it up) put that is a soap foamer with water (about a 1/3of the pc) shake it up when the soap melts you have hand soap.

great show! You are so correct and if americans would try this they wouldn’t need whatever popular diet of the month to lose weight. Restaurants serve way too much food. Its so wastefull.

I ordered your book on 3/31/18 and am eager to receive it to start your savings ideas. Only 2 of us and need to eat at home vs going out. I have an Instant Pot so am working towards cooking more veggies and healthy foods at home.

I wash (rinse) my chicken before I cook. Its a personal preference. The water doesn’t splash all over the place. Its pretty contained in the sink. I also CLEAN when I’m done. No big deal. People shouldn’t bash no matter what side you are on. It’s all personal preference.

I respect your perspective on not washing your meat. Where I come from, it’s different. We usually wash our meat using limes/lemons or vinegar and we’ve never gotten sick from this method before. We also clean everything else we use afterwards.

I want to plan tv dinners. I figure get some freezer plates it something and that way I can make sets of 2…or sets of 3 fit for houseguests. When I try to make dinner…we end up eating the same thing for a week…. Like chili, small pot, in tired of it after a day. Diabetic in family meals must have meat, vegetables and a starch. suggestions on how to do it…if not in bulk or bit by bit?

This looks good but without peas.. I really dont like peas but I think this could work with small pieces of chopped broccoli or possibly spinach.. Yeah spinach would work!! ����

I live in Canada and I just need to say.. we do pay for medical/dental by paying benefits.. and even so I still have to pay hundreds each year towards dental and the eye doctor. Sure the hospital and doctor visits don’t cost money but really it does come off our taxes so.. it’s not as free as people think.

Leftovers was a huge topic when I went to culinary school. We were challenged regularly to find unique ways to master the leftover rack. To make an afternoon tea service. I love using leftovers, making them into something new.

Ive been watching ya’ll for a while now and i really love ya’lls videos!! i purchased DOAD cookbook over a month ago and LOVE it!!

OMG, this is SO good! Usually I just use cream of chicken soup to make casserole, but I thought I’d step it up a notch for the fam. I tasted it before browning the crackers in the oven….to die for! I can’t wait for it to be done and have my family try it! I didn’t use olive oil though, opted for melted butter. YUM!

You are so right.  If you have your set meals that you can make quickly and everyone likes,  by the time you switch up your side dishes or vegetable,  you are really not eating the same meal that often.

Hey! During your show you held up a sheet that kind of helped you break down meals with your calories in order to help you watch your calorie count. Just wondered would you mind posting that sheet on your channel where i could kind of go by it to help watch my calorie count. Thank you so much!

Which Uncle Chris’s seasoning did you use? Not helpful if you aren’t specific. AND you don’t put it in your writing where you price out your meals. I know you don’t use all of it, but you did use it. So, unless it was a gift from someone, you need at least a token cost for the spices. You didn’t grow that Uncle Chris whatever seasoning it is.

I have to agree with your nay-sayers about your cleanliness. I use bare hands on raw chicken, but you didn’t even bother to remove your jewelry or WASH YOUR HANDS AFTER HANDLING RAW CHICKEN. You just spread that ‘chicken juice’ (aka bacteria and fat) onto Uncle Chris and everything else you touched afterwards.

I will ALWAYS wash, soak, and wash again my chicken in water before preparing it. The chicken is sprayed with antimicrobial rinses that contain a handful of chemicals. Chlorine, acids, trisodium phosphate (TSP), etc. I know it’s impossible to get all the TSP out but decreasing exposure to an industrial cleaning agent is worth the washing. If you didn’t know about this chemical and the reasoning for washing chicken, please do some research. It’s found in other foods as well. We can’t avoid all toxic things but we can take steps to lower the toxicity burden on our bodies where possible.

You could also use chicken drums if you’re just going to shred the chicken. I can get like 8/10 chicken drums for $2 at a store like Food Town here in Texas. Just boil the chicken until it’s cooked, take the meat off the bone and shred it with a fork or chop it. Add onion, celery, salt, carrots to the chicken pot while boiling and then you also have stock for the rice or you can save it in the fridge for soup another day.

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The way Jill was talking about putting portions on everyone’s plate instead of putting the whole platter of meat out is how we do it at the firehouse where I volunteer when we have our “family dinners”. We always buy chicken thighs and bake them. We have a spice drawer that we use our spice and we have veggies.

Loved this video! Tons of great tips and ideas! Thank you so much. I got a question for you…… What if I wanted to buy every single book and e-books that ya’ll have written, is there a bundle price if you buy all of them?

What is your easy, meal planning tips? Be sure to check out our other meal planning tips at https://www.livingonadime.com/easy-meal-planning/

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First let me say I love your videos and will be purchasing your book. Tell me please how do you gorgeous ladies keep your weight down?

Washing your meat is redundant to me. If that’s what someone’s preference is then go for it, but nobody should be giving you a hard time about it. Why do people feel the need to push their ideals on others? Those folks need to get over themselves. I think you’re doing a fabulous job, girlie!!!!

great advice learned quickly not to make meatballs, was cutting back planned 3 meatballs per person and the (ex) husband filled his plate leaving no meatballs for the rest of us. Ground beef is the way to go. Would buy the Walmart brand of cereal and crackers, put them in the empty expensive boxes and no one was the wiser. Did a taste test with the kids it was an eye opener for them when they realized the expensive cereal was really the Walmart brand.

Hi! I always enjoy watching our cooking videos. Love that they are always simple but tasty. But I’m always left wondering how you stay thin when they aren’t always ‘healthy’ with canned stuff and butter? Do you and your husband just have smaller portions? Any tips on this would help!

I feel like checking the price on chicken thighs now tomorrow when I go shopping, just because of this video. I’m just curious. I’m vegetarian so don’t eat them myself but I feel inspired to double check. What is it about the thighs of the poor chicken that would make them the cheapest part to eat?

@Imskinnyinside Ok I’m back already with an answer! hehe My husband and I made 5 servings of it which were pretty substantial. The fat content for that dish split into 5 servings would be 18.7 grams of fat per serving.

The only meat I wash is chicken…. and only if it has the skin on. I always like to rinse and check the skin for any “imperfections”.

Ok so my only question is what the name of seasoning you have to add or hubby will notice? It’s not listed in the chicken & rice recipe?

Great tips I don’t let my sons serve themselves cereal I serve them cereal but for breakfast I get pancakes I notice It last longer. good point portion control is key.

Years ago, I wrote down about 30-35 meal ideas on a list. That same list I (loosely) follow. It’s getting yellowed and is a little bit worn, but it does the trick. Don’t over think it. Really.

it makes my eye twitch every time you call those green onions “chives”.
also, if you’re concerned about nutritional value you should not use precooked brown rice, nor highly processed then microwaved “vegetables”. chopping fresh vegetables and cooking the rice in the dish with a little additional water will produce a more delicious highly nutritious meal.

I NEVER wash my packaged meat. If it was back in the day where you killed a chicken out of the yard, wash it off after plucking. Lol

For medical issues I had to stop eating for 7 days, and my doctor told me only to drink when I’m thirsty. Do not drink a lot during my water fast. It made me realize I don’t need to eat every meal, or eat so much food! It was the best thing that ever happened to me. We eat too much! Thanks so much ladies, I appreciate you, and recommend your cook book!

@AwesomeTheCoolLol I used precooked rice. You can use white rice if you want to but it has almost no nutritional value. Brown rice has fiber which helps lower your cholesterol and blood pressure.

I drink a gallon of water a day…it help to lower my BP and cholesterol. So I don’t think I could cut out the water….and water helps feel me up when I’m eating less.

Looks nice �� Thanks very much for sharing.
I’m not keen on the dry biscuits on top though. I think I’ll just use breadcrumbs mixed with the Parmesan., I’m sure that’ll be good too ��

Yes please do the Starbucks recipes!!
Also if u can list…what brand is that skillet pot that cooks the chicken so well with out burning it and drying it out?

Love this! I did not have cream of mushroom soup so I used a large can of creamy clam chowder and one small container of plain yogurt instead. I did not have chives or mozzarella so I left them out. I did do the onion step and everything is just yummy!

I’ve never heard of washing meat until maybe 6 months ago. A time I can think of that I put meat under water is getting that last bit of ice out of the cavity of a large turkey. But even if others do wash their meat, why are they shaming people who don’t? Everyone has their own way of doing things even if they don’t always make sense. I do appreciate that you took it seriously and are open-minded enough to double check if you should do it or not.

Oh, and what is the seasoning that you called ‘Uncle Chris’s’?

Thanks for the info! I can’t agree more, our portions in America are out of control, and everyone’s looking for a food group to eliminate. I’ve been more aware of my portions since listening to your videos.:) I agree Costco and warehouses people are overspending!

You wonderful ladies were talking about juice and amts. When I was a kid you got 3 or 4 ozs of juice in the morning. We were served juice in juice glasses. My friends order orange juice when out for breakfast the glass that was delivered to the table was a large soda glass. I started laughing I go my goodness that’s enough juice for a family of 6. While I was laughing no one else was. Of course I’m 500 and they were all 5.

To shred your chicken quickly (if no bones) You can put your chicken in a deep pot or bowl use a hand mixer and turn on low to medium speed and let it shred away! ��
Takes maybe 30 seconds to 1 minute. Wished I had known this trick years ago. It is so easy and save so much time! I always dreaded making anything where I had to shred chicken because it took forever but this is super quick and easy.

Interesting about the water. I have an H2O check off thing on my to do list thing. I only ever cross off 3 things of water. How is 8 cups even possible.

Go find some old-time juice glasses, the kind jelly used to come in. They’re just the right size. Also older collectible glasses were smaller than the 16=32 ounce classes we have now.

After someone else mentioned it in the comment section of another recipe vid, is anyone else looking for the bare feet every vid?! Lol. Great recipe, by the way!!

I love your content but you might consider your scolding tone all of the time…it makes your videos harder to watch. As…if you need the tips and find them helpful you must be an idiot to begin with? Thanks for your channel though.

I love watching your meals. I am from Canada I hear you always talking about uncle Chris’s makes me wonder if we have an equivalent in Canada lol

Thank you so much. Chicken meals are exactly what I wanted! We love the Chicken and Rice and can’t wait to try lemon butter! P.S. You have done some excellent baking recipes before like empanadas and coffee cake, and I’m wondering if you could show us how to make pie crust. I know most of the time none of us have time to make it from scratch, but if you know how, I’d love for you to show us. You teach so well.

I feel really bad for poor people. I feel so much better eating low carb and gluten free. Imagine that’s all some people can eat.

If your poor but want a pizza you can use tortilla, pizza sauce and 2 bags of cheese 3 blend and then just mozerlla bake at 350 for 12 min tasted better than ny pizza make sure you use salt and pepper before going in the oven.

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7 tortillas use about half a jar or less

I use to do that portioning out the cereal and milk the night before for my niece when she use to live with me when she was about 5 years old (Shes now 21… smh where does the time go lol). I would give her one cup of cereal in ziplock or a cup or container and pre-pour her one cup of milk and put it in the fridge on a shelf low enough for her to reach. Then I would take her in the kitchen and show her where it was and have her practice how she was going to get it out without making a mess and what she should do afterward. It was very simple and it gave me a little more time to rest in the mornings…lol Im not a morning person at all, Im a night owl so I would do all my prep while I was up at night.

Good program. Where I live the minimum wage is pretty high, which is nice for the people working those jobs. That means food is sometimes more. I just look for the cheapest price relative to my area. We have a grocery outlet and it has great prices on meat, but they are higher than the prices you mention, but I just don’t worry about it, they are cheapest of all the stores around.

Invest in a meat grinder. When meat goes on sale like pork loin, beef…put it through the meat grinder and make into ground meat. You can improvise then, for meals that need hamburger, for ground whatever you were ever able to find on sale.

It’s funny reading the comments of both sides of the wash/don’t wash chicken argument. It looks like everyone is still alive and kicking on both sides so I’m figuring it’s a matter of preference and probably how you grew up. ������

Not sure i agree with that gallon of water a day(not how it came about). I drink drinks all day long and i stay hydrated. Also with BP meds washing out a lot of fluids i still need more fluids even with pottasium pill.. I drink bottled spring water(water here isnt great) but i also drink tea and pepsi(did good in cutting back on that by getting canned pepsi cause 2 liter used to pour huge cups) orange or apple juice too. Like cranberry juice also just lots of fluids and a lot of milk(2%). Never in my life have i had an issue with drinking too much, never ever had a laxative because i was always hydrated. Never had any kidney, liver, or colon issues. Pretty sure i drink more than a gallon of fluids a day and no…lol I’m the only one in my family that is NOT diabetic. I agree Tawra..i dont tell people what to drink but no dr. ever told me i needed to drink as much as i do drink. Only problem i have is spleen related but thats cause of them believing i have PV nothing to do with what i drink. But this has made me think of portion control. Dont have financial issues with getting food but does make me rethink food portions like pancakes. But i also eat mostly just 1 or 2 meals a day…and i think in part because i keep fluids in me round the clock. Constanly drinking tho in summertime watermelon and esp. Blueberries(my fav.) add liquids also.