Dinner for a friend

Sometimes the best thing you can do for a busy mom is put a meal in her freezer that she can quickly prepare at a later time with minimal fuss. Here's what I did with a recipe of Yummy Apricot Chicken:

4-6 boneless/skinless chicken breast halves
12 oz jar of apricot or jam or preserves (peach works just as well!)
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 tsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup plain breadcrumbs

In a shallow bowl, mix together jam, lemon juice, soy sauce and salt. Put breadcrumbs in a separate shallow dish. Dip the chicken heavily in the jam mixture, coat with breadcrumbs, and place on a pan-coating-sprayed baking dish. Spoon any jam mixture left over the top of the chicken and sprinkle with any remaining breadcrumbs. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes or until done.

When the chicken was done and cooled, I placed it all in a Gladware baking "dish" - you know the kind that you can use in the oven and give away to folks? Well, the things do great in the freezer, too, because they have a nice fitting plastic lid and can go from freezer to oven or microwave. With the chicken, I cooked up a bunch of rice and froze that in a separate bag with my Foodsaver, and I included a bag of frozen green beans - and now my friend has a fully cooked dinner for her and her family anytime she needs it.