Timeline and Instructions:

• 20 minutes before dinner, set out 6 dinner plates and place 1 cup of chopped romaine lettuce on each of the plates. Set aside.

• 18 minutes before dinner, cut the cantaloupe into quarters (6 quarter melon pieces total). Remove and discard seeds from melon.  Place one melon quarter (with the fruit side facing up) on the bed of lettuces on each of the dinner plates. Set aside.

• 14 minutes before dinner, break chicken chunks, with your hands, until shredded in a medium size bowl.

• 12 minutes before dinner, add to the shredded chicken: 1/4 cup reserved chicken broth; 1/4 cup reserved mandarin orange juice, honey and cream cheese and stir until well mixed.  Very gently, stir the orange segments and grapes into the chicken salad, being careful not to break orange segments.  Put a 2/3 cup mound of chicken salad in the center of each melon wedge.

• 6 minutes before dinner, make 3 slices of Muenster cheese into 6 sails for the boats by cutting each slice of cheese diagonally in half from the northeast corner to the southwest corner. To make each sail: take a wooden kebob skewer and weave it through the middle of one piece of cheese that has been cut into a sail.   Place the skewer with the cheese (boat sail) at the end of the melon as a sail for each of the boats.

• 1 minute before dinner, arrange 3 fat-free crackers on the bed of lettuces around each sail boat before serving and place dinner plates on dinner table. 

Supplies List
6 dinner plates
Medium size bowl
Spatula
Wooden kebob skewers

Grocery List
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
23 red seedless grapes
1 stalk celery
2 large cantaloupes

Staple Items
2 (13 ounce) cans chicken breast
1 (11 ounces) can whole mandarin orange segments in light juice
Whole wheat fat-free crackers-optional

Dairy
1 box fat-free cream cheese (only 4-ounces needed)
3 slices of Muenster cheese

Seasonings/Condiments
1 jar honey (only 1/4-cup needed)

This menu was created especially for Precious Moms by Dawn Hall, the author of the award winning Busy People’s Cookbook Series including the just released title: Busy People’s Super Simple Menus Cookbook, (137 healthy, home-style-meals made in 30-minutes or less); Slow Cooker Cookbook, Low-Carb Cookbook, Diabetic Cookbook, Christmas Cookbook, Low-Fat Cookbook, Busy People’s Down Home Cooking Without the Down Home Fat Cookbook and 7 Simple Steps to a Healthier You.  Her books are currently available at all fine bookstores and on the internet.  Her website is: www.Dawnhallcookbooks.com