The Lunch Challenge: Day 3
June 10, 2009 > 4 Comments
Today’s lunch was another quick and easy, yet tasty meal perfect for impromptu visits or anytime you need to put something on the table in a flash.
For my “real food” friends, this is not the meal for you. You will forever be disappointed in me. Everything I made today was totally processed convenience foods. However, you could adjust this to be a whole foods meal although it probably wouldn’t be as quick and simple.
On the menu for today was chicken sandwiches, french fries, and baked beans. Doesn’t sound very interesting does it? Being a fan of foods being semi-homemade, I doctored it up!
Every dish in this meal can be put in the oven at the same time and the cooking times for each are similar. The only dishes you will dirty are 2 cookie sheets and one casserole dish. The pans can even be covered with aluminum foil making it an even easier clean-up.
For the chicken:
- Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.
- Place the chicken patties on the pan.
For the fries:
- Place your choice of fries – tator tots, crinkle-cut, steak – on the other pan. Sprinkle with season salt. I like Lawry’s.
For the beans:
- Any brand of beans
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1/4 cup mustard – my favorite to use is whole grain Dijon mustard. but I didn’t have any.
- 1/4 cup barbecue sauce
- few dashes of Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce
- Spices – salt, pepper, garlic powder
- Pour beans into a shallow casserole dish. I use a glass bread pan so it will fit in the oven with the 2 cookie sheets.
- Add in all ingredients listed. Mix well.
Place all 3 dishes in the oven and cook for about 30-45 minutes or until done.
When the chicken patties are done go ahead and place them on the buns with cheese and put back into the bag. It will make the buns soft and warm. We do this when grilling out hot dogs and hamburgers too. Dress up your chicken sandwich with lettuce, onion, mayonaise, and tomato.
Don’t forget to check in on Joy and see what she fixed her family for lunch today.
Tomorrow’s lunch? Homemade Pizza.
Joy and I both will be posting updates each day about how our Lunch Challenge is progressing. You can see her Lunch Challenge results here at Five J’s.
You’re also welcome to join us in this challenge. Just focus on preparing a lunch each day this week. Then stop back by here next Monday and link up your lunch recipes. Even if you don’t join us in our challenge, we encourage you to link up your recipes. We’d love to have some more recipes to choose from to add to our master menu plans at the end of June.
Also, we’re still hoping more of you have breakfast recipes to share with us. Please link up your favorite recipes here!
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June 11th, 2009 @ 8:43 pm
I haven’t had a chicken sandwich like that in ages. It looks good to me, especially with the toppings. I may have to keep this in mind for a quick dinner some night. Lunch is usually eating up the leftovers, sometimes it’s more exciting than others
June 11th, 2009 @ 11:31 pm
I have to admit….I love this idea!
I am putting both the seasoning salt (which I can’t believe I didn’t think of before) and the chicken patties on my grocery shopping list. What a quick and easy meal.
June 21st, 2009 @ 9:50 pm
I ‘doctor’ my baked beans the same way you do.
June 22nd, 2009 @ 5:13 pm
I like the idea of putting the cooked patty on the bun back into the bag. I can see how that would soften the bun and make things a whole lot tastier! I will be trying this with burgers and hot dogs like you suggest.
Thanks for sharing.