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Amazing and Easy Sweet and Sour Chicken Recipe

I am a stay at home mom and we homeschool, because of
that, I think it should be incredibly easy to get a healthy, homemade, amazing meal on
the table each night.  For some reason,
it is not easy.  While I do tend to make
most of my meals from scratch, I realized that having to start dinner at 3pm in
order to eat by 6pm was not working.

There are so many amazing and easy crock pot recipes out
there.  There are entire blogs dedicated
to freezer cooking, and all of the wonderful dishes that they can have for
dinner by making them ahead of time. 
Unfortunately, I can’t seem to make those freezer meals work for
me.  Either I don’t typically buy the
ingredients, or I don’t have a Saturday to dedicate to making freezer meals.

I love to make chicken in the crock pot though – most
specifically chicken tacos.  However,
my kids were getting kind of sick of it (how can you be sick of tacos?!), but
they still wanted chicken.  I can only
bake a chicken so many ways, so I thought I would try for a sweet and sour
chicken recipe with rice.

This is an incredibly easy recipe, so easy I don’t think it
even qualifies as a recipe.
Easy Sweet & Sour Chicken and Rice

2-3 lbs of boneless skinless chicken breast (you can also
use thighs)
1 12oz bottle of Heinz chili sauce
1 20oz can of Dole pineapple chunks
Put the chicken in the crock pot, add salt/pepper/garlic
powder to your liking.  Add chili sauce
and pineapple chunks (I drain most of the liquid).  Set your crock pot to low for 8 hours, shred chicken with
two forks.  Cook some brown rice and
serve over the rice.


This is a knockoff of another recipe I make around Christmas
time – sweet and sour kielbasa.  Instead
of the pineapple I usually use a jar of grape jelly.

For this particular day I also added a bag of frozen
peppers and onions.  I always like to
have these on hand because they are perfect to throw in the crock pot with chili
or chicken to add something extra.  I
think if you steamed some snow peas and broccoli and added it to the dish, it
would be delicious!

What are some
easy  meals that you make during the
week?

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  1. Jan says

    October 19, 2017 at 12:24 am

    What a great recipe! It'll make a great dinner for my hubby and myself! (empty nesters now). Thanks for linking it up at celebrate365 Slowcooker linkparty

    Reply
  2. Amanda @ Old House to New Home says

    November 7, 2016 at 3:43 pm

    This looks really easy and good! I have a new baby so I love using my crockpot to get dinner together quickly!

    Reply
  3. Stephanie Lee says

    November 7, 2016 at 11:58 am

    This looks so easy to make and so yummy! I always love finding easy crockpot recipes. I'll try it out!

    Reply
  4. Taylor Mobley says

    November 7, 2016 at 4:53 am

    I have been looking for a sweet and sour chicken recipe to make this week for dinner and this one looks perfect. I will need to pin it for later!

    Reply
  5. Amanda Love says

    November 7, 2016 at 3:51 am

    This looks really tasty! I love sweet and sour sauce on chicken and it's definitely perfect with some rice. What a lovely meal!

    Reply
  6. Krystel Seijo says

    November 6, 2016 at 11:18 pm

    Yum, yum, yum. I had no idea chili sauce and pineapple makes sweet and sour sauce. I would love to try this

    Reply
  7. Debbie-jean Lemonte says

    November 6, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    This looks delicious. I didn't even know pineapples are included in the recipe until now.

    Reply
  8. Roxanne Ferber says

    November 6, 2016 at 3:11 am

    This looks so good! I wanna try this one on the family!

    Reply
  9. Karen Morse says

    November 6, 2016 at 1:27 am

    I am SO excited to test out this meal! I love the ingredients and how EASY it looks to prepare!

    Reply
  10. Louise Bishop says

    November 5, 2016 at 11:49 pm

    One, this looks super easy. Two, this looks absolutely delicious! Added to my quick dinner list.

    Reply
  11. Kimberly Stroh says

    November 5, 2016 at 5:46 pm

    Yum! I love the addition of the citrus to give it that sweet flavor. I love something like this during the weekdays.

    Reply
  12. Theresa Pickett says

    November 5, 2016 at 3:14 pm

    This looks so tasty! I love how simple it is. I could always do this on a busy weeknight when we're on the go!

    Reply
  13. Amanda Steelman says

    November 5, 2016 at 3:01 pm

    I love chicken recipe…especially easy ones! That is about all my picky family will eat! I will definitely have to try this out on them.

    Reply
  14. Dogvills says

    November 5, 2016 at 8:24 am

    Oh my, this looks yummy and I love that there are only three ingredients. I want to make this for dinner tonight.

    Reply
  15. Dana Vento says

    November 5, 2016 at 7:21 am

    Wow! This one is looks good, it would be perfect this coming weekend.

    Reply
  16. ilkasblog Ilkasblog says

    November 5, 2016 at 2:37 am

    I never had sweet and sour chicken, but this looks so easy and fast to prepare!

    Reply
  17. Housewife Eclectic says

    November 5, 2016 at 1:40 am

    Only two ingredients that is so easy this is totally going on my must make list! Thanks for sharing

    Reply
  18. Jessica says

    November 4, 2016 at 9:19 pm

    This looks so easy! I love easy and delicious recipes, and sweet and sour chicken is one of my favorite meals. I will try this soon!

    Reply
  19. Angela Tolsma says

    November 4, 2016 at 6:56 pm

    WOW just two ingredients that's kinda insanely easy! I'm usually a pita pizza night when I don't feel like cooking and everyone makes their own, but there's no kids in my household and I don't have a slowcooker!! One day

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  20. Jessica @ Barefoot by the Sea says

    November 4, 2016 at 6:07 pm

    Looks great! I have to try it!

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