Homemade Chicken Nuggets - Part 2

This might be harder than I thought.  I bought a meat-grinding attachment for my KitchenAid so I could grind chicken into whatever is inside of chicken nuggets, which my son realized a long time ago was dead chickens.  Learnings today:

• Ground chicken breast is pretty flavorless.  I didn't add anything to the first batch, and my oldest son was unimpressed.  This may be a mixed blessing though; as if I add salt and "other things", he may still like it.  I added Montreal Chicken Seasoning to the second batch and it was better.  I still have to work on the spice mixture.
• I also have dark-meat ground chicken; will try that later.
• Frying makes a mess.  Baking doesn't cook the coating/breading.  Trade-offs are part of life, right?  
• I bought cookie cutters to shape the nuggets into things that my children would find entertaining.  I chose a heart, dog bone and triangle, primarily because they seemed easy to work with when using ground meat.  My sons wanted the dog bone.   When I showed my daughter the heart-shaped chicken nugget that I made for her "because I love you" she just nodded her head back and forth and said "no", several times.  That's OK, I can still bribe her with chocolate fudge.  
• Ground white meat chicken is also dense, no matter if fried or baked, breaded or not.  They must mix something else into it "down at the factory".  This could include a leavening agent, certainly spices, and who knows what else.  
• Ok, I had no idea just how true the above statement is.  The Kosher Chicken Nuggets "Of Tov" (which means Good Chicken) in my fridge include a lot of ingredients in just the nuggets, including chicken, water, bread crumbs, potato flakes, textured soy flour, soy protein concentrate, potato flour, isolated soy protein, salt, sodium phosphate, garlic, dextrose, hydrolyzed soy protein, spices, onion powder, celery powder.  This is before I even get to the breading and batter.  If I could get the ingredient list down to a few things, I'd be happy.  
• Maybe I'm being too ambitious?  No, I have to focus on the goal; vegetables in these nuggets.  
• Cleaning the grinder is only easy in the directions.
• The croutons actually were a little harder to work with; I either need to grind them more completely or use bread crumbs. I may have had the oil too hot in my first round of experiments.
• OK, that was a lot of work for today; next project is to work on the chicken mixture itself.

-Chef David