Healthy "Fried Chicken & Waffles"

I'm going to take one out of Lily Singh's book and just start by saying that periods are hard. The hormonal fluctuations on steroids, the cramps, the insomnia, but most of all the food cravings.

One of my favourite things to eat and one of the things I crave most when menstruating are carbs and fried foods. Usually my will power to stay on track with my flexible diet is pretty strong. But this month I thought I would experiement and try to "healthify" one of my favourite "cheat meals," FRIED CHICKEN AND WAFFLES!

Ingredients:

• Lightly battered chicken; I choose a type of chicken; strips, nuggets, or fillets, that suit my caloric budget. I typically go for halal white meat. It's cleaner and leaner.

• Flourish protein pancake mix

• Bacon; I like to use Applewood smoked Turkey Bacon. It has 85% less fat than regular pork side bacon

• Maple Syrup; I like to use SinFit Maple Syrup (0 calories)

Directions:

• Bake the chicken in the oven instead of fry it

• Make the turkey bacon on the stove to taste

• Follow directions to make Flourish Protein Pancakes. With the consistency I use I get about 2 pancakes that work well as taco shells.

• Build the chicken pancake taco and drizzle maple syrup to taste.

The Calories and Macros for the Chicken and Pancakes I made are:

Calories: 485

Net Carbs: 40g

Fat: 8g

Protein: 32g

Sometimes if I'm a bit hungrier than usual I will combo it with a nice Greek Yogurt fruit bowl that's 100 calories, 0g of fat, 17g of protein and only 8.5g of net carbs (drop a like / comment if you want the recipe for that!)