Cheater Chicken-n-Dumplins

Since J and me went on our no (low) gluten diet, chicken-n-dumplins was, sadly, one of the foods we had to cut from our menu.

The boys aren't on an anti-gluten diet but they are okay with most of the changes I've made in my cooking.
Except Ryan's been wanting chicken-n-dumplins since back in the winter, which is when I mostly cooked them, when it was chilly/cold out.

Some things I will cook for them anyway, like homemade biscuits, gravy, french toast, etc. But homemade chicken-n-dumplins are kind of an effort, and if I make that kind of effort, then I know I'm going to be eating me some chicken-n-dumplins.
And suffering for it later.

Yesterday Ryan said again he wanted chicken-n-dumplins, and as I was standing there telling him no, a thought occurred to me, from out of the blue. I have no idea where it came from.
I told him the idea, and he agreed it sounded legit, and we decided well, we could try it. All it could do it turn out gross, right.

I used a can of chicken broth because I had some, but I don't think it was absolutely necessary, I believe plain water probably would have done just as well.
Poured the can of chicken broth and another 2 cans of water in a pot (I actually started with 1 can of water, but it wasn't enough). Bring to boil.

I had a can of refrigerator biscuts in the fridge, no particular name brand, whatever was cheapest at where ever I got them.  I pulled each biscuit into about 4 pieces and drops the blobs into the boiling broth/water.

Boiled them for awhile, until the dough blobs were dumplin-y (sorry, this is the way southerners cook...'til it's done, you just know...).

Then I added a can of chunk white meat chicken, like Hormel but some other name brand, and salt & pepper.

It took maybe 20 minutes, and the boys declared it a success. (Still not as good as homemade, though.)

Then I made them a batch of chocolate chip cookies because, Yum.