Monday’s Menu: Taco Salad Fixins
This week’s Monday’s Menu is nothing too exciting… just the fixings for taco salads. What you see there is tortilla chips, cooked taco meat, cheese, lettuce, tomato, sour cream and salsa. I make taco salads a lot because they are highly customizable! Got someone who doesn’t like lettuce? That’s fine, just leave that off of their plate. You can use salad dressing instead of sour cream and salsa. You can put as many veggies on top as you’d like– lettuce, tomato, green pepper, onions, black olives… You can make taco salads using chicken instead of ground beef. You can add refried beans, which I would have done if I hadn’t forgotten to buy refried beans at the grocery store yesterday! You can scale up the amount of meat and fillings to fit the group you have. Easy peasy!
The best part of taco salads for me is that because I live by myself, there’s always leftovers. They heat up really well, and I don’t have to worry about figuring out dinner for a couple of days!
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My mom swears by Breakstone sour cream. I love, love, love it. Unfortunately I have to back off of it since spoiled dairy products (sour cream, yogurt, cream cheese) are migraine triggers.
This post is making me hungry. It looks soooo yummy. We add corn and black beans to our taco salad. And sometimes we substitute rice and chicken for the ground beef. Yup, really customizable. And now I am going to fix lunch. At 9:30 in the morning.
Yum!
This is so lame, but I know you won’t judge me. I usually don’t make salad, even though I enjoy a good salad, because I am too lazy to cut everything.
How lazy is that?
Very.
But your salad still looks delicious!
Mmmmmmmmmmmm… I want to come for dinner at your house tonight! I love taco salad
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alli, I love Breakstone too!
During football season, taco salad was our Sunday ritual. I’d make it at noon and it would be our lunch, snack and dinner.
wow i really love taco salad now i have some ideas from this post thanks a lot
We just had nachos on Friday night, and I bet there is some leftovers of all this stuff in my fridge. My husband is home today and this would make a tasty lunch for us. Thanks for the idea!
Your post was inspiring! We had taco salads for dinner last night!
what a great blog! i’m on a diet so i should probably stay away from these yummy dishes. but after my wedding and after i stop dieting, i’m going to be here all the time
yum yum in my tum tum
Oh yum! This is what we are having for lunch today with some leftovers we had.