Chili Cheese Coney Dip w/Piglets in a Blanket

   I started a diet about 2 weeks ago and boy is this diet strict! I'm only allowed to have 1200 calories a day (at least until I drop to my target weight, then I will increase it a bit). So I have to be really careful with what I eat over the course of my day. But I do allow myself to have "cheat" days, and this has become one of my favorite meals to cheat with!

   The Chili Cheese Coney Dip with Little Smokies Piglets in a Blanket has also become a fast favorite of Corey's. In fact, we've had this twice in one week's time (and that never happens). My daughters don't like coney sauce so they won't even bother with it. I didn't get this recipe from Pinterest, I actually got it from a video that someone had shared on Facebook. I did create a Pin myself, and you can find it here. This recipe is super simple and inexpensive to make. Of course, I added an ingredient and changed another to suit our tastes (and what I had on hand).

Finished product...It is as yummy as it looks, I promise!

Ingredients:

• 1 can crescent rolls, any brand (I used Pillsbury)
• 1 can chili, any brand any flavor (I used Hormel No Beans)
• 1 block cream cheese softened, any brand any flavor (I used Meijer fat free) 
• approx. 2 oz. Shredded cheddar cheese, any brand (I shred my own from Kraft Mild cheddar)
• Green Onion, diced (I used sweet onion in place of green onion)
• package little smokies, any brand (I used Hillshire)

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Open the can of crescent rolls, pull apart the 8 triangles. The recipe I pinned tells you to cut in 3 long strips, however I cut them in 4 smaller triangles (to get more little piglets in a blanket) like I do for "piglets in a blanket". Roll your little smokies into the crescent rolls cut outs (however you did it). 
• Arrange them in your pan or cast iron skillet to form a circle around the edge of the pan. It's okay if they touch. If you don't have enough room for all the piglets, put the remaining on a cookie sheet to bake alone. 
• Mix your cream cheese and coney sauce until it is mixed up good. Add most of the shredded cheese and mix into your dip mixture.
• Put the dip mixture in the middle of the pan, it's okay if it touches the piglets.
• Sprinkle remaining cheese on the dip.
• Put in the oven for 20 minutes or until crescents are golden brown. If you have the extra piglets on a baking sheet they can go in at the same time, but bake no more than 15 minutes.
• Take out of oven, and sprinkle onion on top. As you can see by my picture, I also drizzled classic yellow mustard on top. It's delicious!! 
• Enjoy!!

   Like I said, this is a real crowd pleaser for Corey and I and we will probably make this one quite a bit. It's super quick, easy and inexpensive; which is perfect for when time and/or money are limited. I think the next time I fix this I will add mustard into the dip as I mix and bake it. We both LOVE mustard so I think it would be really yummy!

   If you would like to follow my Pinterest, I am Pretty Pagan. I have lots and lots of food boards so I will let you pick and choose which ones you follow. I actually need to re-organize them, especially since I've been adding more and more stuff. I have both healthy boards and not-so-healthy ones. If you find my nonfood interesting you can follow those also. But I would be happy to have you follow them all, I like new followers. I also like blog subscribers, and I promise to be better about being an active blogger from here on out. Please feel free to share this, and comment below if you try it and let me know what you think or any changes you made to make it better!

Blessed Be!!