Skinny Chef Salad

I've noticed when I pick up a pre-made salad at the grocery store or at some kiosk at the airport, I am deceived. While I think I am making a smart decision, I look up the calorie count and it is astronomical when you add up the cheese, bacon, eggs, etc... Aka lots more fat and calories than I ever planning on. Not cool.

So I decided to try and skinny up the classic salad by making a few twirks and packing it with tons of lean protein. Pretty simple ingredients. See below :)

1 chicken breast

2 slices of turkey bacon

3 eggs

1/2 cucumber

10 cherry tomatoes

2 cups lettuce 

garlic salt and lemon optional!

First, heat up a skillet and get your chicken going. I marinated mine with lemon and garlic salt. Flip occasionally. Next, get another skillet going for the turkey bacon. I like mine extra crispy (almost burnt...) so I found an awesome way to cook it! Before you cook the bacon, cut it up (with scissors) and heat it on the stove, while mixing every few minutes till it is the optimum crispy-ness for your liking.

In a big pot, boil 4 cups of water and pop 3 eggs in there to make them hard-boiled. Let them cook for about 8 minutes. While the stove's a-cookin, break out your cutting board and veggies. Combine lettuce, cucumbers & tomatoes in a bowl. Once meat is cooked add to the bowl. 

After the eggs are boiled, let sit for 5 minutes then run each one under cold water while de-shelling the egg. Once the shell is off cut each in half and scrape out the yolk (that is where all the calories hid in an egg!) then chop up the whites and add.

And there you go. Simply skinny chef salad :)

Serves 1/About 250 calories/ 6g fat/ SB Diet Phase 1 friendly/ Hard for me to estimate protein but between the eggs and meat I'm guessing upper in the 20gs. Yahoo!