March 25, 2024
"Walking Taco??!?!? I'm intrigued." by reynolds.james.e is licensed under CC BY 2.0.
Easter Weekend is coming this week! Our cafeteria will be open with limited hours so you may get hungry between meals. A great and inexpensive option is to create some meals with canned beans. They are cheap, are a great source of protein, fiber, iron, and vitamins, and can be used in many dishes.
One of the best sites that I have found for recipes is the Bush Beans site! It has given me a ton of recipes ideas for sandwiches, salads, baked potato toppings, pasta, and soup. This past week I made the "Rustic Tuscany Chickpea Orzo Salad". It was cheap and amazing! If you walk down the aisle with beans at the grocery store you will see many types:
You get the idea.
As I looked through the list of recipes, my favorite idea for this weekend was a Walking Taco. I have seen them at festivals in a small bag of corn chips with a little bit of chili, some cheese, and maybe lettuce or sour cream. That is it. You put it all in the 1 oz chips bag and you can walk around while you eat it. Cute and expensive. You can actually make a much larger serving in a bowl for more than one meal. Each meal would cost you about $3.99 at its most basic and would increase depending on how many toppings you add.
So here is what you would need from Ralph's:
1 can Armour chili - $2.49
1 12 oz bag Herr's Bite Size Dippers - $2.99
Cheese (2/$5) and Sour Cream (2/$5) are also on sale this week if you want to add them.
Go to our Recipes Tab and look for the subpage Walking Tacos for the recipe link and adaptations for dorm living!
