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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
I think I have found a new lazy cheap food staple in the form of soy chunk tacos. Just hydrate a pack of soy chunks with a packet of taco seasoning and combine with corn tortillas, salsa, and literally any vegetable of your preference.
This base alone will not win any taste awards, obviously, but it takes so little effort and if you want it to have more flavor it’s pretty easy to do by adding some oil or avocado or simply nicer salsa. I was just trying to make it as healthy as possible. Frankly, with the softness of the soy chunks, it probably would have been better as a burrito but I didn’t want the white flour calories and frankly corn is better. Also maybe try your own spice blend because supermarket taco seasoning packets are astoundingly bland - especially when you get the reduced sodium type I used. I don’t think it even had black pepper!
Between the soy chunks, frozen bell peppers, slightly fancier organic salsa, seasoning packet, and premade corn tortillas, the batch cost ~$10 for enough tacos to make about six meals or so.
If you’re curious where I got the soy chunks for this, it’s something you may actually need to get from a Hispanic grocery store or online. Strangely enough I got mine from a Hispanic section of a market that seems to mostly be serving the small middle eastern communities in the area. They are dry and shelf stable so you can hold on to them for quite some time, which makes this a nice fallback meal for when you didn’t get the chance to go grocery shopping.