For those of us who have trouble eating chicken

Thanks for sharing... I'll have to try it!

My favorite is to crock pot boneless skinless chicken thighs with a can of rotel.  Mexican chicken with no fuss - great flavor, very moist, reheats well.  Always finish the left overs off on that one.

Rotel? That's the spicy canned tomatoes? I'll give that a try. Thanks!

OOOH. love the butter chicken myself.  I have this brand of "sauce" that comes in a moist packet - when I get home from India I'll send you the info - maybe you can find it in Canada...  It's quite good.  I prefer it to Patak - tastes a bit more authentic to me.  The only downside is you can't just scoop out a few tablespoons - you need to mix the paste with water and make a couple breasts worth at a time.

I too have trouble with chicken.  I've been told to use dark meat - more moist/fat and easier to tolerate.  I've been weaning off the white meat and into the dark-side more often lately.  

But I try to use the white  to my advantage.  It really makes me feel full and DONE eating after 1.5-2 oz, so if i'm coming in high on cals I use chicken to reach satiety fast....

Every tool has it's use :)

And I thought I was doing a lot of travelling! (Just got back from a weekend in Victoria, heading out to NB for a month on January 2nd)

I'd love the info for your brand. It's hard to imagine anything better than Patak's paste (not sauce) but I'm willing to sacrifice myself in the name of research.

You know something I find interesting? The way my "new normal" in portion sizes is starting to feel, well, normal. Last night's supper, for instance. Barry served my meal and knows the drill. 2 tablespoons of brown rice, 1/2 deck of cards' volume of chicken, about the same volume of sauce and 1/4 cup of steamed veg. I'd have laughed at anyone considering that a meal just a few months ago, but now it's perfect. Nice variety of tastes and textures, Fred comfortably satisfied but not full to hickyburp stage, let alone stuffed. (I hickyburp about 2-3 bites before "oh crap")

The restaurant meals the dietitian warned us about have become something I avoid - WAY too much food and I can make meals at home that I enjoy more. I do miss our favourite Indian buffet, but am thinking about going and buying the takeaway version, bringing it home and making it into several freezer meals for myself. Going to the buffet s a sit down meal? Simply not worth it. When a meal out is my only option I'm finding a cup of soup easiest, or I just order off menu.

I'm not a huge fan of dark meat other than when I buy a chipotle rotisserie chicken at the local grocery store. I'm going to try roasting just seasoned drumsticks and see how we like them. I know Barry'd be happy to try that (he's wonderfully easy to please) and 1 drumstick should be about right portion-wise for me.

I've discovered that I really don't enjoy feeling "full" anymore. Anytime I eat to "full" I have reflux for the rest of the day and sometimes longer, even though I take a PPI. Talk about negative reinforcement! If I stop at comfortable I don't get nearly the reflux, so comfortable has become my happy place.

Agreed - feeling full is feeling a bit sick for me.  I'm still working on portion sizes in restaurants but I'm very very disenchanted with eating out right now.  

The brand is "Kitchens of India"  - I like several of their seasoning mixes.

Here's the packaging:

I'll be looking for it. Thanks Tom!

I totally agree about eating out. At least I'm not stuck doing it as much as you. Isn't it funny that something that used to be a treat is now something we actively avoid? Barry and I ate a total of 5 meals out during our 10 days in Honolulu, and that includes the hotel hot breakfast our first morning there and supper at the airport on our way home.

We took a tiny rice cooker, a microwave pot and single serving packets of protein drinks with us, shopped at WalMart for groceries and a smallish Brita (Fred hates chlorinated water) and cooked the rest of our meals in our hotel room. I loved being able to make simple, real food in portions I could eat instead of hunting on a menu for something that sorta fits and having to deal with leftovers.

I love alot of the crockpot recipes on skinnytaste.com.  Her Mexican Pork Carnitas are the best!  I don't really have recipes, I'll just throw whatever into the crockpot mostly.  Two chicken breasts plus half a bottle of Frank's Red Hot Buffalo Sauce and BAM shredded buffalo chicken = delicious.  Shredded beef as well but I haven't found a recipe besides pot roast that I really love.  For parties, I throw in a bag of frozen turkey meatballs with a can of cranberry sauce and Heinz chili sauce.  Set it on high for an hour or two and the two sauces together make a sweet and tangy bbq style sauce, delicious with mini ****tail meatballs! 

I'll check that site out - thanks!

We have a potluck this coming Sunday and commercial turkey meatballs in the freezer. (too dry for poor wee Fred) I may well be taking sweet and tangy turkey meatballs as my contribution.