Monday, August 18, 2008

Eating to Run: Tropical Chicken Sandwich

Lots of folks I meet ask for recipes and tips to my WW success. Since I continue to maintain my goal weight a year and a half later, mixing it up with healthy new recipes helps a lot. My newest super healthy, go-to sandwich was adapted from a recipe in Prevention magazine. It has all the good stuff: whole grain, fruit, veggies, protein and MUFAs (Monounsaturated Fats AKA ""good fats.")
Enjoy!

Ann's Tropical Chicken Sandwich
Ingredients:

1 lg slice of whole grain bread, cut in half (or whole grain roll)
2 oz. chicken white meat (leftovers from the grill, canned in water or lunch meat)
1 small-medium, ripe avocado, mashed
1/2 lime (for juice)
1 mango, sliced
Tabasco sauce

Mash the avocado, fresh lime juice and Tabasco into a mixture. Spread about 1/3 a cup of the mixture on both slices of the sandwich. Add chicken on one side. Add about 1/2 cup mango slices on the other. Stack up for a filling, delicious, healthy sandwich!

Note: Using 1 slice of whole grain bread, 2 oz of chicken, 1/3 cup avocado mixture and 1/2 cup mango, this sandwich clocks in at 6.5 WW points (TM). For me, that's a tad high, but it is extremely nutritious and very filling.

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