Chicken, Spinach and ricotta are stuffed into aldente Manicotti shells, covered in fresh tomato sauce and cheese to make a healthy and decadent meal.

Right now I’m really thankful that I have this meal in my back pocket, both for the blog and for my hungry stomach.

You see I was rolling through my photos hoping that I had an un published recipe somewhere in the midst to share with you guys and realized that I hadn’t been shopping in a couple weeks and we have nothing planned for dinner. Man is my brain frazzled. Luckily my over achieving self prepared a couple of meals ahead of time for just such moments. One of those meals I happened to stumble upon in my photos that has yet to make an appearance here on the blog.

I actually got the original recipe from Mavis, whose blog I’m a little obsessed with. Chuck approved and well now it’s a staple in my “I don’t want to cook” arsenal, because it being in the freezer means it only needs to be heated and served. Did I mention it’s healthy? And Chuck likes it? Yes it is a winner.

I want to mention while manicotti is perfectly fine, and in fact that is what is shown in these pictures it also goes well for stuffed shells or even a lasagna adaptation if you want to give them a shot.

My version uses ricotta and my homemade tomato sauce, because that’s how we like it around here, but the cottage cheese used in the original version with your favorite premade sauce, I’m sure is delicious too. I also used frozen spinach, because I always have a ton of it and it takes one more step out of the whole process making it that much easier.