Craft Porn Volume 3

I recently lost six pounds. Truth. Before you go hating on me, I will admit the weight loss is due to stress. But since I’ve already started down the right path, I have decided to parlay this little unexpected gift into a bigger plan. I’m going for 15.


I’ve always thought that the secret to successful dieting is to find a way to trick yourself into thinking you are being bad, when you are actually eating food that is low calorie and semi-good for you. I say semi-good because I will never be that person who shops in the organic section of the produce aisle and/or pays attention to sodium content. If you are that person, I think you are both amazing and a kook.

Things I enjoy eating almost always include buffalo sauce and ranch dressing, so when I saw this on Pinterest, I clicked on it immediately. It involves rolling chicken soaked in buffalo sauce into eggroll wrappers. I took it a step further and made my own ranch dressing out of Greek yogurt and ranch seasoning.

So here’s the link to the original recipe. It is way too long for me to post here, but has lovely photos and is really easy to follow.

This is what I did:

1. I threw a package of chicken in the Crock Pot and poured an entire bottle of buffalo sauce over it (I used Frank's, it was good). It cooked all day.

2. I shredded the chicken with a fork and it looked like this:

3. I put the chicken in the center of the eggroll wrappers and rolled them up like (you guessed it) an eggroll. I forgot to take pics of this step, but there are great ones on the original recipe. It also calls for blue cheese crumbles and broccoli slaw, but I didn’t have that and did not feel comfortable substituting Kraft singles and Iceberg lettuce.  If you're like me and had no idea you could buy eggroll wrappers, you can find them in the produce aisle.

4. I put them on a cookie sheet and baked them at 400 degrees for about 15 minutes.

While they were cooking, I busied myself making a faux ranch dressing. I took one cup of plain Greek yogurt, one half cup of skim milk and a packet of dry ranch seasoning and whisked it together. That’s all. It surprised the shit out of me to learn that I had a whisk of my very own, but that’s a story for another day.

This is what it was supposed to look like and what mine looked like. I’m pretty proud of myself.

When I went to get the recipe off of Pinterest today, I noticed several of you had repinned it, so this might be old news to you.  I repinned it from my cousin Lindsay's board titled "Buffalo Chicken."  It made me laugh she created a board just for that.  I need to get more specialized with my boards.

Calories: 103, Fat: 3.2g, Cholesterol 19.5mg, Sodium 237.7mg, Carb: 9.9g, Fiber: 0.5g, Sugars: 0.3g, Protein: 8.1g

See what I mean about the sodium?