Clean Eating Taco Tuesday!

(Almost) Every Tuesday is taco night in our home.  Oh how I used to love a fluffy flour tortilla stuffed full of meat, cheese and sour cream.  However, that's not quite acceptable to me now days.  Since I have changed my life style, flour tortillas, greasy meats, and lots of dairy is not on my list of foods I eat.  BUT - that doesn't mean we skip out on taco night.

Though my husband and daughter still eat their yummy tortillas stuffed with sin, I fix myself something a little more healthy.  We have switched to extra lean ground beef for our meat.  I also use a home made taco seasoning - bypassing any MSG or extra sodium.
Here is the link for the recipe - http://allrecipes.com/recipe/taco-seasoning-i/

Then I have THREE options -

I can pile on the meat, tomato, onion, a sprinkle of cheese and maybe some diced avocado onto 4 romaine hearts.

OR

I can make a taco salad with the same ingredients.

I do add salsa sometimes and I use the organic salsa from Aldi's.  Reminder: always read your labels!

The third option - which I LOVE is a Taco Bowl.

You take about 1/2 cup of brown rice, 1/3 cup of your lean taco meat, and any type of veggies.  I like to use bell peppers.  You can find bell pepper strips in the frozen section when make a really easy ingredient to add to a lot of meals without all the chopping and prepping.  Sprinkle of cheese, a little salsa, then combine and it's amazing!