Cranberry Walnut Chicken Salad

Here's a favorite recipe of ours, our own variation on salads we've had in restaurants.

Mix together:

• 4 oz. cooked chicken (or turkey), cut into 1/2" cubes or smaller
  
• 1 Tbs. dried cranberries (or raisins)
• 1 Tbs. chopped walnuts
• 1 Tbs. diced celery
• 1 Tbs. mayonnaise (adjust to taste; we use Best Foods Reduced Fat)
• 1 tsp. sweetening (maple syrup, honey, brown sugar, Splenda, etc.; Lee uses Torani Sugar Free Raspberry Syrup, which imparts a subtle flavor and gives the whole an interesting pink color)

We like to make pita pocket sandwiches lined with lettuce and stuffed with this chicken salad. A single recipe of salad and one pita, split into two pockets will serve two light eaters or one hungry person. Western Bagel's Alternative Pita and Sara Lee's Mr. Pita Whole Wheat are our favorites: one Weight Watchers point apiece. Mimi's Cafe serves its version (with turkey and raisins) on toasted raisin bread with lettuce and tomato.