Here in Mississippi, Summer is still in full force, and light summer meals can’t be beat. I love BLT sandwiches, but for a filling dinner, I decided to make a chicken BLT salad.

I wanted to keep things on the light side, so I cooked my chicken without any oil… just sprinkled with ranch dressing mix on both sides for some delicious flavor.

While the chicken cooked, I cut up and washed my lettuce…

…and washed and sliced some Roma tomatoes (my favorite!).

Mmm…. check out that yummy browned chickeny goodness. Sneak a piece from the pan to taste the yumminess that is ranch dressing mix on poultry!

I used the rest of the dressing mix to make actual dressing (go figure!) for our salad. Basically, I just mixed it with some lite mayonnaise and some fat free sour cream until it was the right texture/flavor.

And for the bacon? I got some of that pre-cooked stuff in a box, microwaved it, and cut it up with my kitchen scissors over the top of the salad.

This was definitely a dinner that will have to be repeated, because the flavors were perfect, and you’d never know our homemade low-fat Ranch dressing from the store-bought full-fat kind (I hate store-bought low-fat Ranch. blah!).

Looks like Summer, doesn’t it?