Category — Salads

Clean Eating Taco Salad

by The Gracious Pantry

I’ve recently returned to work after being a stay at home mom for nearly two years. What a culture shock! I’m working as a clerk in a hospital, and there is TONS of new stuff to learn. So needless to say, I’ve been pretty wiped out when I get home at night (The first week is always the hardest!).

So my honey has pitched in with trying to make dinner for us, and I have to say, he’s doing a FABULOUS job! I might make a cook out of him yet!

Tonight he made us this lovely taco salad, and I almost over ate because it was so delish! I was able to stop myself before I ate to much, but boy am I looking forward to lunch tomorrow! Here’s the recipe:

Clean Eating Taco Salad
(Makes as much as you’d like to make)

Meat mix ingredients
1 1/2 lbs. ground turkey meat (the leaner the better)
2 tsp. garlic powder
2 tsp. chili powder
2 tsp. paprika
Salt and pepper to taste

All the other ingredients
Avocado – sliced or mashed (Try my clean eating guacamole’)
Corn – no sugar added
Lettuce – I used spring mix from Trader Joe’s
Black beans – no sugar added (again… Trader Joe’s)
Salsa (from where else…. Trader Joe’s)

Possible additional ingredients
Tomatoes
Onions
Olives
Low fat shredded cheese
Fresh cilantro

Directions
Step 1 – Prepare your meat in a non stick pan using either chicken broth or 1/2 tsp. olive oil to cook it. Add all “meat mix” ingredients to the pan and cook until the meat is done.

Step 2 – Prepare all other ingredients.

Step 3 – Layer all the ingredients on your plate and serve.

Eat and Enjoy!

RELATED READING:

Clean Eating Chips And Guacamole’

Munchkin Helpers:

If you have little ones, here’s how they can help (With close supervision, of course).

This one is kind of a no-brainer. Aside from cooking the meat, kids of all ages can help in preparing the toppings for this salad. Yes, there may be a bigger mess to clean when you are done, but I guarantee your kids will eat the veggie toppings if they put them on the plate themselves!

Note: Nutrition data for this recipe is unavailable due to unspecified ingredient amounts.Caution: Any time a child is in the kitchen, they will require close supervision. Munchkin Helpers suggestions should be applied with common sense to your own child, taking their own capabilities into account. Do not assume that because it says here that your child can do something, that they can, in fact do it. Please use common sense when in the kitchen with your child(ren).

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