Hummus Crusted Chicken

If your anything like me you have 3 goals everyday.
1.) Keep the kids alive
2.) Keep house standing (because clean with kids is a joke)
3.) Easiest yummiest dinner you can find

Luckily, I'm doing great with keeping the kids alive and my house is still standing but dinners, oh how I hate having to think of something quick, easy, healthy and something that will please everyone. I have been eating as clean as I can lately, I'm doing a beachbody program and it is strict but the results are amazing so my family suffers with me sometimes.

 This was a dinner that I decide to try after searching pinterest for ideas. Pinterest what would I do without you??? It took me maybe 15 minutes to throw together (lots of veggies being cut). Do I have your attention??? Want to know something else??? Everyone in my house liked it, even my husband who is my pickiest eater!

Recipe for Hummus Crusted Chicken
You will need:
3 thawed chicken breast (or how ever many your family needs, this fed 5)
Hummus (I used the pine nut hummus from Costco)
Veggies 
-3 Zucchini
-1 bunch of asparagus
-green orange and red pepper
-onion


Cut up all of your veggies and put in a large bowl, sprinkle with seasonings. ( I used Italian seasonings nothing fancy) Then place everything in a greased 9x13. Place your chicken on top of the veggies and cover in hummus, little hands might enjoy helping on this step. You don't want to see the chicken at all. Then throw everything in the oven!

Bake at 375 for about 45 minutes or until the juice from the chicken is clean. 

Biscuits on the side are perfect with this.

IF by chance your doing the beachbody 21 day fix program, this is approved! Yay!
1 red
1 blue
1 green (I did 2 and it was a ton of veggies)
1 yellow (if you do biscuits with it)

Sweet Potato and Apple Side Dish

So over the past 2 years I found I have a love for health. I dropped 75lbs and kept it off. I lift weights, run half marathons and can keep up with my kids. Over this journey I have found that I not only love baking but I also do cooking. I thought I hated it but that's because I wasn't cooking good food. All of it would taste good but it wasn't good for me food, so I felt like crap eating it. Since cooking actual food, I realized I really enjoy it. I enjoy trying new dishes, healthy and non healthy, but I like the healthy a little more....only so I don't feel so guilty for taking seconds, or polishing off the dish :)

I have learned to love coming up with new recipes, some my own, others that I change a few things to make my own. I saw a sweet potato and carrot recipe and no offense but gag, that sounds bad. It was a sweeter dish using honey and cinnamon. I thought why not apples instead? Apples with honey and cinnamon are great, sweet potatoes are filling so lets try it all together.

Lucky for all of us it's an easy sugar free, clean side dish. Something quick and easy. Add some grilled chicken with this and its a perfect meal in my book.

Recipe:

1 whole sweet potato. (peeled and cubed)

1 apple (cubed)

1 tbsp honey

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

Put the sweet potato and apple in a pan with a little cooking spray. Let them cook for about 20 minutes together or until the sweet potato was soft. Put the honey in the microwave for 10 seconds to make it runny. Add the cinnamon and nutmeg to the honey and mix it all together then drizzle onto the apples and sweet potato mix. Let them all cook together for about 5 minutes. Then you are ready to enjoy!

Husband didn't try it but said "garf" after seeing the picture but all of my kids approved. Hubby is my picky eater.