Oven-baked chicken fingers

Hi! I posted this already in another thread, but I thought it good enough to post on its own.

Step 1: Make your own bread crumbs with stale whole wheat bread. Cut the bread into chunks, put the chunks in a blender or food processor and mix until all crumbly. Spread on a baking sheet, put in the oven at 350 for 7 minutes (up to 10 minutes if you like them close to burnt). You can make a big batch and keep what you don't need in the freezer in a freezer bag... they'll keep forever.

For the chicken fingers, cut your chicken in strips of the size you like. Mix the crumbs with spices (I put paprika, garlic powder, salt, pepper, and dried basil - but you can really make up your own mix). In a bowl, beat 1 or 2 eggs (1 for 2 breasts, 2 for 4 breasts, etc...), or only whites if you like. Coat the chicken strip in the egg, cover up with the crumb mix and place in a pyrex sprayed with cooking spray.

I baked them at 350 for 40 minutes, and they were excellent.

You could also flavour the chicken beforehand, by letting them marinate in lemon juice, for example, overnight.

The kids won't see the difference between these and those you buy already frozen and full of bad stuff!