Crock pot Chicken Mac & Cheese

I just made this today, and from the few tastes I've had (dinner isn't for a while yet), it tastes really good. I got the recipe from the sparkrecipes app, http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=84424 . You should read the user comments on there, because, like me, they thought it needed something else. Another spice, or onions, or garlic...just something else.

Ingredients

1 can cream of mushroom soup (low fat preferred, fat free falls apart in this recipe)

1 can cheese soup

1 can cream of onion (low fat preferred -- can be replaced with cream of celery or chicken if preferred)

1 pound of chicken breasts

8oz sour cream (low fat is prefered)

1 pound any pasta shape

1 package frozen veggies (we prefer cauliflower but any can be used -- broccolli blends work well also)



Directions
in crockpot mix the soups together. place chicken in soup mixture, making sure they are well covered.

cook in crockpot on low for 6-8 hours. chicken will fall apart when done. **SEE NOTE BELOW**

once chicken is done cooking, mix sour cream into the sauce. let thicken with heat off.

cook pasta according to package directions. add frozen veggies into the pasta water and cook at same time. drain.

place pasta/veggie mixture back into large pot. add chicken and sauce on top of pasta. mix together so pasta is covered and chicken is shredded.

may add shredded cheese on top to serve, or a dollop of sour cream if desired.

makes approximately 8 servings, depending on the type of past used. larger pasta shapes will yield larger serving sizes.

Number of Servings: 8

I used fat free sour cream, low sodium versions of the soup, so the nutritional content was even lower. I don't like mushrooms, so I subbed out for cream of chicken soup. Next time, I might use a can of spicy cheese soup, a cream of chicken, and a regular cheese soup to make it extra cheesy. Also, I found that the cooking time was WAY lower than on this recipe. This was finished about TWO HOURS sooner than the recipe suggested.

This is the nutritional value using low fat/low sodium soups, and fat free sour cream:
Chicken Mac & Cheese, 1 serving(s) 315 Calories 5 fat 7 fiber 20 protein 615 sodium 51 carbs