Chicken Caeser Snap Wraps

So have you checked out our weekly meal planner yet? I'm telling you, planning your meals for the week makes your life SO much easier and saves you a TON of money. I should know. I've tried just "winging" my weeks, making up excuses that I don't have time to plan and shop for meals in advance. And this is usually what happens. It's dinnertime, my kids are starving and eating a million otter pops and pretzels, and I'm opening cupboards. the fridge, the freezer wondering what in the world I can make for dinner that takes 10 minutes or less. (So I can at least offer my children some protein and a vegetable instead of popsicles and chips.) And then I decide there's nothing to eat, so I run to the nearest drive thru, call & order pizza, or open up a box of cereal. Sound familiar?
I absolutely LOVE having my dinners for the week on the fridge. I can wake up in the morning, see what dinner I've planned, and take meat out to defrost or start whatever it is. Then later when dinner is approaching, instead of wasting an hour deciding what to make, I spend that 30 min-hour making dinner and it's done! The other awesome thing is that shopping for your meals a week (or two-I'm not there yet but it's my goal!) in advance saves you time not running to the store every other day, and a lot of money. With gas and food costs, and your hectic life,meal planning is the way to go for sure!!
So here we have chicken Caesar snap wraps for dinner, which I named appropriately since they come together in the snap of a finger!! And here is an example of planning ahead I wanted to share with you. These were on our menu for the night, and I had planned to marinate and grill the chicken for them. But as my day unraveled with a preschool end of the year shindig and an after school track banquet, etc etc......the chicken wasn't getting done. So instead of heading for the drive thru, I called my husband and asked him to pick up a rotisserie chicken on his way home from work. Wa-La, it cost $5.00 (instead of the usual $15.00-$20.00 to feed our family of 8 @  the drive thru), and we had a healthy, delicious meal. Have any meal planning tricks you like to use? Let us know!

Chicken Caesar Snap Wraps
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Serves 8
8 Tortillas (we like the uncooked ones you buy at Costco in the refrigerator section)
1 recipe Grilled Italian Chicken (if you don't have the fresh basil called for just sprinkle on 1/2 teaspoon dried or leave it out, and don't worry @ the basil butter for this)
or 1 Rotisserie Chicken
Lettuce (I used a Dole Romaine Lettuce Blend I got at the 99 cent store-love that place!!)
Tomato
Cucumber (optional but yummy!)
Shredded Parmesan Cheese (I bought the already shredded Kraft kind in a bag)

Creamy Caesar Dressing:
2/3 cup Mayonnaise
1/3 cup Milk
1/2 cup Parmesan Cheese (for the dressing I just use the good ole stuff from the canister)
1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
1 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce
1 Garlic Clove, minced
1/2 teaspoon Dijon Mustard or Spicy Brown Mustard
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1/8 teaspoon Pepper

Whisk all ingredients together.

To assemble the wraps, take a tortilla and spread it with some Caesar dressing.
Then place some lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumber on the dressing.
 Finish off with some chicken, Parmesan cheese, and another dollop of Caesar dressing. Fold tortilla up from the bottom and then fold each side over to close.

Recipe Source: Creamy Caesar Dressing adapted from http://www.cooks.com/, Wraps by www.ourcookingcafe.com