Leftovers for Lunch: Ways to Use Chicken Leftovers!

When I am meal planning for the week, I purposely buy chicken and have it once a week just so I can have the leftovers for lunches. The fella actually teases me about my love of chicken leftovers.
It's my favorite! So versatile and so many ways to incorporate it into different meals.
I figured it would be a great idea to put some of those into one post so the next time you have a leftover chicken breast or two in the fridge, or a container of leftover chicken from a fryer or roaster, you'd be inspired to make some fantastic lunches from the leftovers!

{Enjoy Life Foods Friday} Pack Lunch with Plentils! #AllergyFriendly #GlutenFree

I'm thrilled to announce our new partnership with Enjoy Life Foods! 

Each month we'll be featuring a different line of their amazing allergy free food products. All Enjoy Life  products are free of the Top 8 Allergens & Gluten Free. They're made in a dedicated facility and have no artificial anything. They're also a member of the Non-GMO project.

For the month of September, I was challenged to "think outside the chip bag" and come up with lunch box ideas using Enjoy Life Plentils.  Plentils are crunchy lentil chips. Lentils happen to be one the best plant-based sources of protein. That's why they call them the "chip with benefits"!

Rather than just sticking a baggy of chips in with lunch, here are some creative ways you can use these allergy friendly crunches of goodness for your family:

{Allergy Friendly} Savorfull August Box Review + Chicken & Mushrooms Recipe!

Each month, I'm planning on compiling a wrap-up review post of my monthly Savorfull boxes!

A one stop shop, if you will, to check out all the goodies it has to offer. (I will try to get this up sooner in the month, going forward.)

Little Miss is in love with her monthly "special green box of goodies". She practically barrels down the UPS guy when he comes with her special Savorfull delivery!

Lunch Made Easy: MOMables Monday - Butterfly Quesadillas

Happy MOMables Monday!
Monday's lunch is our gluten-free version of the MOMables classic, Chicken Quesadillas.

Lunch Made Easy: Little Bites for Little Miss

This Mama has had a busy day and my evening after making lunches involves some late night work related duties that came up last minute, so lunches were made rather quickly this evening.

Lunch Made Easy: Zesty BBQ Chicken Leftovers

Before I left for work this morning, I had thrown a rotisserie (uncooked) chicken into the crock pot and covered it in an entire bottle of Zesty BBQ Wing sauce. Mmm... we enjoyed it tonight for dinner with steamed veggies. It was delicious! So much so, Little Miss ate three helpings... AND requested some in her lunch! :) 

Lunch Made Easy: Cauliflower Crust Lunchbox Pizza (with recipe)

Pizza is a favorite of Little Miss (and me too)! One reason since going gluten-free, I've been enjoying finding and making her fun alternatives to the "traditional crust" (such as the Chebe pizza muffins I made previously).

There are endless cauliflower crust recipes out there, most are very similar but with a twist on the seasonings and toppings used.
Here's my version which yields two crusts that fit perfectly inside this EasyLunchboxes container:

Lunch Made Easy: Chicken Tacos

We had beef tacos for dinner tonight. Little Miss loves tacos so much she jumped up and down, giving me hugs when I told her what I was making (lol, silly kiddo)!
Anyways, with some of the leftover mini-corn shells, I thought it'd be great for her lunch - she was happy to hear that too.

Lunch Made Easy: GF Chicken Taco

Day two of gluten and peanut free lunches. :)

Side note: Little Miss had brown rice pasta Mac n' Cheese tonight and ate it like a champ! I wasn't sure how she'd respond since it is a noticeable difference in taste. She did in fact notice but I made it so cheesy I don't think she cared. lol :) Plus she's totally on board with trying new things to help her tummy feel better (LOVE that girl!)

Back to lunch -

Lunch Made Easy: I love leftovers.

Little Miss asked for leftovers in her lunch for Thursday ~ Sounds good to me! lol
The girl will eat anything cold too, she actually prefers it that way. :)

Food for Thought: Broccoli Chicken Noodle Casserole

This is such a simple casserole but was a staple recipe my mom would make in our house growing up. I've always loved it and now I make it for my little family quite regularly. :)

Broccoli Chicken Noodle Casserole -

Lunch Made Easy: Panda Love *rice onigiri*

Little Miss is off school tomorrow (Friday) so I thought this might be a good time to tackle the next Bento of the Week challenge - Onigiri.

I have never done anything with rice like this before, so I was a bit nervous... I figured since Little Miss was going to be home with me while enjoying this, what they hey... good time to go for it! That way, if it was a hot mess, at least I was home to make her something else (LOL).

Well, when it was all said and done, I was pretty darn impressed with how it turned out!

Food for Thought: Crockpot Love - Creamy Italian Chicken

I'm sure many of you may have a take on this recipe in your collection, but still a yummy meal I had to share!

Food for Thought: Mexican Chicken Alfredo

Mmm, this was such an easy & yummy meal we had last night! I found this recipe in my Simple & Delicious catalog I received at the Taste of Home Cooking School I attended in September.

Food for Thought: Cream Cheese & Chive Stuffed Chicken Breast with Bacon

I made this for dinner Friday evening and it was a huge hit! Little Miss devoured an entire chicken breast to herself even. lol

Food for Thought: Crockpot Love - Zesty BBQ Chicken Drumsticks

Another simple and delicious meal made by my beloved Crockpot.
Finger lickin', fall off the bone chicken made easy!

Food for Thought: Crockpot Love - Chicken Drumsticks

This is probably one of the easiest crock pot meals I make - I got going this morning so it will be done tonight, mmm mmm!

Our stores typically will sell the family size packs of drumsticks for 99 cents/ lb. I will then break up the pack into about 3-4 freezer bags, each containing 4-5 drumsticks (depending on how much I buy).

So for $4-5 I can get 3-4 meals out of the chicken! EXCELLENT.

Here's what you need: (this size feeds 2 people)