~Low Carb Bacon Wrapped Chicken~

    First note:  this is low carb, not low fat.  That being said, let's continue

 A few years ago I tried the ever (at the time) famous low carb Atkins diet.  I didn't do it to a "T".... I don't do anything to a "T", but I worked hard at cutting back on rice, flour, bread, pasts.... you know, all the GOOD stuff.  I ate eggs for breakfast, salad for lunch with dressing a chicken or salmon and then LOTS of meat and veggies for supper.  If I had a good day I would allow myself to have either sugar free chocolate pudding or sugar free jello.  Honestly the diet wasn't that bad.  I had a huge headache for the first several days as my body was detoxing from the previous overload of carbs, but other than that, It was easy peasy.  This was a recipe that I had taken from a low carb cookbook and my family loves it!!

        Second note:  I no longer do the low carb diet (because I just love carbs too darn much) but I still try to limit the carbs.  Pasta is ok, just not every night.

        Bacon Wrapped Chicken:  Chicken breasts flattened to 1/4 inch thickness ( I found this to be extremely messy and hard to do, so I just fillet it lengthwise and don't worry about the thickness)

Container of Onion and Chive Cream Cheese

1 pkg bacon

        Third note:  The recipe also called for butter, but you don't need it.  You don't need the extra fat and the chicken stays just as moist without it.

Fillet the chicken breasts in half lengthwise

Soften the cream cheese and then spread on each half with a spoon (Softening really makes this easy.  I didn't find that out until last week.  Oh well!)

Roll up the chicken starting on the short side.  Then wrap it up with a couple of slices of bacon and place in a baking dish.

It should look like this:  Yumm!!

Bake at 400* for 40-60 minutes (it depends on the thickness and size of the chicken breasts that you are using.  I like to move the dish to the top of the oven and turn on the broiler for the last 5 minutes.  It makes the bacon a little more crispy.

Fourth note:  The chicken breasts will appear pink next to the bacon because the bacon does it's thing and kind of smokes the chicken.

I like to serve this with rice and green beans.  You will have to imagine that lovely plate because we again ate it before I thought about taking a final picture. :)