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This North Carolinian #nailedit - 1st slaw attempt!

4 skinless organic chicken thighs. sliced in 1/2 long way so thin and long (won’t fall out of bread as easily)

I know I’m NO FOOD BLOGGER and these pictures are messy, but my sense of pride is 🤗🤗🤗. I made my first slaw and it was good!!! If you’re from North Carolina, making good slaw is A. BIG. DEAL. 💁🏼‍♀️💁🏼‍♀️ And something you must get right. You now are very aware that I like to eat clean. I feel better and my body responds better so I didn’t want a super creamy, mayonnaise based slaw because I’d feel bad afterwards and what’s the fun in that??

This is also 100% 2B Mindset approved and I used the “plate it” methodology. That means you don’t measure and that means FREEDOM! I didn’t measure the slaw or the chicken or worry about any points, calories, containers, etc. Winning for sure!!!

Prep time: 5 minutes if you buy the slaw per-made ;)

INGREDIENTS:
- 1 TBSP honey
- 1 TBSP plain mustard (I tried the first batch with grainy mustard as recipe said and didn’t find it rich in flavor). you could opt for honey mustard and forgo adding a full TBSP of honey above (I found it to be too much anyways
- 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- salt & pepper to taste
- 1 tsp celery seed, optional (I didn’t have any and it was fine without)

DIRECTIONS:
1) add all wet ingredients and stir well, then stir into slaw a little at a time. I didn’t need all the marinade so I saved some of it for my salad at lunch the next day (with the leftover chicken). Total win in my book to cook once and eat 2-3 meals from it!
2) Cook chicken breasts, chicken thighs, pulled pork, or whatever you fancy and add BBQ sauce.

For my husband I served these on burger rolls, but for the kid I used Orowheat “Thins” so they could finish it all. To make mine 2B Mindset approved I served the chicken over slaw and it was delightful!! I don’t eat carbs with my dinner because I’m winding down my day and not looks for carbs for more energy. That will be first thing tomorrow morning.

marinade - didn’t need this much for the amt of slaw I used

pre-made slaw with dressing on top. Serves 4.