Summertime Chicken Bacon Salad

Here’s what you’ll need:

5.5 oz grilled chicken

2 pieces of bacon (cooked and chopped) I used Applegate Farms brand

Romaine lettuce (I eyeballed this since I was just making one serving)

2.5 oz diced peppers (any color works)

28.5 grams of Banza brand chickpea pasta

1 TBL original Sweet Baby Ray’s bbq sauce

2 TBL Bolthouse Farms classic ranch

I first started boiling water for the chickpea pasta and threw that in once the water was boiling. As that boiled, I cooked my bacon first and then in the same pan with the bacon fat, cooked my diced chicken. I would normally use a BBQ to grill the chicken but #apartmentliving. While my chicken was cooking, I chopped up my romaine lettuce, peppers and bacon and tossed them in a big bowl. Once the chicken was cooked, I diced it into smaller pieces and added it to the bowl with the other ingredients. Once the pasta was soft, I rinsed under cold water, strained it and added it to the bowl. Add in the BBQ sauce and ranch and stir everything together. SO GOOD. SO EASY.

Total macros for the above serving:

34.3 carbs

11.2 fat

51.4 protein