Bitsy’s Baked Chicken (+ a HUGE giveaway)
This post is sponsored by Bitsy’s Brainfood.
Hi friends! How’s the morning going? I hope you had a wonderful weekend! New post is up on the PBB site here. I’ll be back later today with a recap from the weekend, but in the meantime I have a new family-friendly recipe for you + an amazing giveaway from my friends at Bitsy’s Brainfood.
I’ve mentioned this before, but sometimes Liv will surprise us with the things she prefers. She has an adventurous palate and will try anything, which is a lot of fun. She has tried many things that the Pilot and I didn’t have until our 20s or 30s (escargot?!), and I always have a blast checking out new restaurants and sharing recipes with her.
We try to involve her in the cooking process as much as possible, and for meals, I’ll give her a couple of options to choose from.
As she’s gotten older, some of her favorites are not-so-favorites anymore. She doesn’t really like salmon as much (ok, so she doesn’t like my salmon, but Seasons 52’s is just fine hahah), and something she liked yesterday she may not be in the mood for today. And I get it; I’m the same way. Now that she is more verbal about the things she wants to eat, I depend on some of the no-fail options, like Bitsy’s Brainfood.
You can check out their full line of products here!
We’re huge fans of Bitsy’s in our house. The cereals, crackers and cookies are delicious -I think I like them as much as Liv does- and I love that they don’t hide the fact that there are veggies in their foods. I think that this can help kids associate healthy foods with *fun* foods, and enable them to make smarter choices as they grow.
Also, they are nut-free and the cookies and crackers are made in a nut free facility for kiddos with nut allergies, or those who attend nut-free schools.
We enjoy them while we’re out and about,
packed in lunches,
and as components of baked goodies, like this Bitsy’s cookie crumble, and this baked chicken.
Chicken tenders are another one of those fail-proof Livi meals, and I used the maple carrot crackers as a savory coating, with a hint of sweetness. They kind of remind me of chicken and waffles! I baked the tenders in the oven until crisp, and served with a Ranch and honey mustard for dipping sauces. They’re a great dinner option, and I’ll freeze them and heat for quick lunches.
Here’s the recipe if you’d like to give it a try!
Ingredients:
1 box Maple-Carrot Bitsy’s Brainfood Smart Crackers (ground into breadcrumb-sized pieces. I found it was easiest to put them into a plastic bag and roll/break with a rolling pin)
1 lb chicken tenders, seasoned with salt and pepper
2 eggs
Salt, pepper, garlic powder
Coconut oil
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 425 and grease a cookie sheet with coconut oil.
2. Whisk the eggs in a medium bowl, and pour the Smart Cracker crumbles into another medium bowl. Season the crackers with salt, pepper, and about 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder. Mix well.
3. Dip each chicken tender into the egg mixture and then coat completely in seasoned Smart Cracker crumbles. Shake off any excess crumbles and place on the cookie sheet in an even layer. Spray or drizzle lightly with coconut oil.
4. Bake for 15-17 minutes until cooked through and golden brown.
5. Serve with dipping sauce of choice!
And now, it’s giveaway time! Bitsy’s Brainfood offered ONE YEAR of free Bitsy’s products (in the form of VIP coupons) for a lucky reader. 20 second place winners who will receive a set of coupons for free products (1 coupon for each product line).
All you have to do is enter via the widget below.
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I’ll announce the winner in Friday Faves!
Ready, set, go!
xoxo
Gina
This post is sponsored by Bitsy’s Brainfood. Thank you so much for supporting this blog and the amazing companies who help to support our family.
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I would love to try the zucchini gingerbread carrot cookies!
Yum, those chicken tenders sound delicious.
I’d like to try the sweet potato cinna-grahms.
I’ve never heard of the company but the snacks look great.
Love this! Will we will introducing foods to our LO very soon and I am very excited and also want to make sure he gets healthy foods! How I feed our family is so very important to me.
Those sweet potato cinnagrahams look yum!!
Looks delish!
We LOVE Bitsy’s thanks to you and your recommendation through your blog! My two year old son loves the crackers (and so do I!)
Sweet potato cinnagrahams!
I’d love to try EVERYTHING!
The oatmeal raisin cookies.
Sweet Potato Cinna-Grahams sound amazing…and that chicken looks great too! I love using leftover crackers and using them to coat chicken. It’s so much better than generic panko or breadcrumbs!
i’d love to try any of the cereals
Chocolate beet cookies
I’d love to try the sweet potato cinnamon Graham’s!
Sweet Potato Cinna-Grahams FTW!
They all look delicious!
The Sweet Potato Cinna-Grahams sound so perfect for fall and back to school!
The sweet potato oatmeal raisin smart cookies sound great!
The Maple Carrot crackers look delish!
That chicken recipe and those maple-carrot crackers sound pretty yummy.
But…I can’t resist ginger, so I will definitely have to try the zucchini gingerbread carrot cookies!
i’d love to try the cheddar chia veggie crackiers!
Definitely the cinna-grahams!
I want to try those smart crackers so I can make hi ken strips…genius!
Zucchini gingerbread carrot sounds like it would be really good, I’d love to try that flavor although they all sound great!
The cereal line! Always looking for another healthy snack option 🙂
I saw these products at target for the first time last week. Hope i win because my toddlers would love to try everything at snacktime.
I would love for my son to try the maple carrot crisp…. and okay I might just happen to sneak a few bites from him 😉
The chicken tender recipe sounds amazing!!’
Oh my gosh my little one would love the sweet potato cinna grahams. She’s a huge orange veggie lover, not so much green veggies 😉
I follow on Instagram (Lungingthroughlife)
The cinna grahams sound delicious!
Healthy snacks on the go are a necessity with my two boys! Would love to try these!
We’ve had a lot of Bitsy’s products but I didn’t know they had cereal! We’d love to try one of them.
The cinnamon graham crackers sound so yummy! Our baby girl is just starting to eat foods so this would be perfect timing!
Looks delicious
Everything looks great and I’m definitely going to try those chicken fingers!
I need to try breading chicken with cracker crumbs. Looks yummy!
Sounds delicious! I love simple nugget recipes like this
Cheddar chia smart crackers!
What a fun idea as a crust!
The sweet potato oatmeal raisin sound delicious!
Chocolate orange and beet and sweet potato cinna-grahams both sound delicious!
I’d like to try the orange chocolate beet cookies.
I’d like to try the Orange Chocolate Beet Smart Cookies.
The cinnagrams look soooooooooo good!
would love to try the sweet potato oatmeal raisin cookies!
I would love to try the Bitsy’s Organic Sweet Potato Oatmeal Raisin Alphabet Smart Cookies.
I would like to try the Organic Sweet Potato Cinna-Graham Smart Crackers. We love sweet potatoes and cinnamon.
Holy sweet potato cinna-grahms.
Smart cookies and crackers! They look amazing and I know kiddos would love them!