{"id":2480,"date":"2010-06-05T10:31:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T17:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com\/?p=2480"},"modified":"2010-06-05T10:31:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T17:31:52","slug":"healthier-taco-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=2480","title":{"rendered":"Healthier Taco Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no reason a Taco Salad should be 2,000 calories. Supposedly the taco salad at Chipotle comes in around 2,140 calories. Holy cow! For one meal? I was craving a taco salad and wanted to make a healthier version so Michael took over with his culinary skills and created something pretty great.<\/p>\n

First, he sauteed lean ground turkey meat with chopped onions and jalapenos, using cumin and cayenne seasoning. I prepared the “salad” portion. I filled the bowls with lots of shredded green leaf lettuce and topped it with some shredded cabbage.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I put pinto beans (they came in a chili sauce) on mine, and used plain black beans for Michael’s:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Next I chopped a tomato and added that along with some shredded Colby Jack cheese.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The turkey was done so Michael poured it onto the top of the salad.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A few dollops of Light sour cream, salsa, and homemade guacamole went on top of the turkey. We realized that we were out of black olives. \ud83d\ude41 Sad! I LOVE black olives. So that was the only thing the salad was lacking, in my book.<\/p>\n

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Taco Salad<\/p><\/div>\n

Piled high! It looks worse than it was, trust me! It was just the right amount of food. I crunched up some tortilla chips on top and dinner was served.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We did the math and decided that dinner was between 600-800 calories. I err on the side of 800 just in case and logged the higher number in the Myfitnesspal App where I log all my food\/exercise. It was delicious!<\/p>\n

Dessert was a piece of chocolate a coworker gave me.<\/p>\n

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Moonstruck Chocolate<\/p><\/div>\n

I generously let Michael have a few bites of the chocolate before I devoured it. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Dessert<\/p><\/div>\n

I had had a decent swim at the pool Friday night. I tried out my new goggles and LOVED them. I finally found a pair that fit my face correctly. The pool was strangely cold, however, so the swim wasn’t as great as I’d like.<\/p>\n

QUESTION: Is there a “lighter” version of a dish that you make? What’s the trick?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s no reason a Taco Salad should be 2,000 calories. Supposedly the taco salad at Chipotle comes in around 2,140 calories. Holy cow! For one meal? I was craving a taco salad and wanted to make a healthier version so Michael took over with his culinary skills and created something pretty great. First, he sauteed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,315,104],"tags":[516,8770,654,8735,269],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}