Dinner's Ready. Shut Up and Eat (Please)

Just another reminder that cooking healthy food can be super simple and delicious.

Tonight's dinner is:

Some roasted mini red potatoes

Skillet cooked chicken breast

Some Chick-fil-A sauce

2% milk

The taste is – dare I say – delicious.

Here's a quick run down of how I make the potatoes and chicken.

I get red potatoes or mini red potatoes.

Wash potatoes and cut them up into chunks.

Preheat the oven to 425 F.

Put the potatoes on parchment paper on a pan.

Drizzle some olive oil on top and then throw in a healthy dose of garlic salt, salt, and pepper.

Bake for 30 minutes.

It's the best way I've ever eaten potatoes and it's good reheated later in the week, so feel free to make a bunch. (And yeah — potatoes are a perfectly healthy food).

For chicken, you can just buy fresh chicken breast. But lately, I've been buying the Tyson's frozen grilled chicken strips. Same macros and quality as fresh. You just don't have to cook them right away or worry about thawing them out. It's like frozen veggies versus fresh veggies. Both work. The frozen stuff is just a little less work and maintenance. It's already cut up for you.

I grab a skillet pan and put a little water and butter in the pan.

Once the butter melts, I throw in the chicken breasts and season it. I use salt and a specific grilled chicken seasoning mix from Publix.

Turn it to medium, stir for a bit (just to evenly spread out the seasoning on the strips), then put a lid on and let it cook for 6 minutes.

That's it.

A tiny bit of effort goes a long way.

I do this same thing with ground turkey or ground beef instead of chicken many times (more often than not, actually).

I also alternate weeks between cooking a bunch of roasted potatoes as my dinner carb or jasmine rice as my dinner carb. Both options are easy. I just switch week to week to keep things from getting to stale, or boring, you might say.

I'm no chef and I don't care to mess around with fancy, time consuming recipes.

I'm a simple guy that likes simple solutions and strives to eat healthy, while also wanting my food to taste good.