Taco Salad

I tend to spend an insane amount of time at the grocery store, for two reasons-I love wandering the isles and listening to conversations, and I'm an avid couponer. Couponing takes a ton of time, but allows me to get a lot of stuff for free, and then I get to donate that extra to food banks and shelters. Anyway, because I spend so much time at the grocery store, I was really surprised to see that our new Kroger makes taco shells for taco salad. This recent discovery inspired our dinner tonight.

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Ingredients:

2 Taco Shells

Ground Turkey Breast

Cheddar

Corn (Frozen or fresh)

Black beans (canned or homemade)

Spanish rice riceroni mix

4 tomatoes

A bunch of lettuce

Guacamole (optional)

Sour Cream (optional)

Salsa

Steps:

1) Brown the meat and season to your liking. Matt is the spice king so this was all up to him. He used Fajita seasoning, chili powder and garlic salt (I was skeptical of the garlic, but it was tasty!)

2) Follow the riceroni mix instructions, substituting the cans of tomato with 2 fresh chopped tomatos.

3) Put your beans, corn, cheddar, lettuce, tomato, beef and rice in separate bowls

4) Take out your shell and layer above ingredients to your satisfaction

5) Top with guac, sour cream and salsa if desired (or be like Matt and put Ranch dressing on top)

This was a really yummy dinner and I felt like we were in a restaurant with the fancy taco shells, however, we would not purchase the shells again, because we really didn't like the taste. So next time we'll make our taco salad in bowls and eat it with corn chips. Enjoy the pictures and let me know what you think!