Crispy Chicken

Hey girls! My name is Amanda and I am a stay-at-home mom with three kiddos: Coleman (5 and just started Kindergarten), Spence (will be 4 in November), and Allie (14 months). My boys are the pickiest kids you will ever meet! My 5 year old can be brand-specific when it comes to some foods! I definitely have a challenge planning a dinner that everyone will eat, as I'm sure many of us do. Luckily, my husband, Brian, is the least picky person I've ever met. I decided to start with something simple that might win my gang over, and said a little prayer: Dear Lord, please let these nuggets taste like McDonald's to my kids, but much better to me!

For my first recipe I chose to make Crispy Chicken (pg. 114). Here's how I changed the recipe:

• I cut the chicken breasts into nuggets (I only used 2 breasts)
  
• Used seasoned salt instead of thyme and poultry seasoning

The ingredients

The preparation - I like to use a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper to keep breaded nuggets from sticking.

Ready to cook!

Done! Served with homemade mac-n-cheese, salad, and bread.

I had high hopes, but they were crushed as soon as my boys sat down to the table. Coleman had one bite, which I'm pretty sure he spit out, Spence wouldn't even try a bite, and Allie took a bite then let it fall out of her mouth. I thought they were OK. (Brian had a dinner meeting so wasn't here.) I have a recipe similar to this but it uses French's Fried Onions for the crust. It's much better. For some reason mine didn't come out very crunchy. Coleman even described them as slimy. I couldn't cook them any longer or the chicken would have gotten too dry. I did turn on the broiler, but I guess I could have left them a little longer. I will not be making this again, even though I thought they were fine. But since I have another recipe that I like better and the boys will eat, I'll stick with it. So here are my ratings:

Simplicity: 5
Taste: 3 (the boys would say negative 3!)
Nutrition: 3

For my next recipe, I plan on making the Apricot Salsa Chicken, with no hopes of the boys eating any!