Rockin' Taco Tuesday - Low Carb

Taco Tuesday Salad!

I have to admit that when you can find a way to have one of your favorite meals, it's pretty sweet.   I used to love tacos.  When I was pregnant, it was my go to food.  I would eat every kind of taco imaginable.  Fish, beef, chicken, in a tortilla shell, as a roll or in the shell.  I loved taco salads that came in the huge taco shell.  The  huge taco shell salad days are over for me as are the soup in a sourdough bowl...lol.  However, I have found it's still super easy to enjoy the taco sans the shell.

A regular meal that is easy to make for the whole family to enjoy is tacos.  The taco shell has relatively low carbs.  The Ortega shells I recently purchased have only 16 carbs a shell.   That is doable for anyone on a low carb diet.  You could even base your main meal of the day around doing tacos.  I do believe you get more mileage out of using the shell as decorative and having a land blasting wonderfully fulfilling taco salad.  Here's what's in my taco salad:

2 cups spinach - 2.2 carbs
1/4 cup heirloom tomatoes - mini - 1.5 carbs
1/8 cup red onion - 2.2 carbs
1/4 sour cream - 2.4 carbs
1/4 cup salsa (not fruit based) - 4 carbs
1/2 cup shredded Mexican cheese - .4 carbs
1 diced peppercini - 1 carb
1 cup ground beef taco meat  - 5 carbs (the spices in used in taco seasoning are surprisingly high in carbs)
1/2 taco shell broken up - 8 carbs
1/2 cup avocado cubes - 6 carbs

Carbometer:  32.7 carbs.   If you are on a 30 - 50 a day carb diet, I would remove the avocado or the taco shell or even both for a modified carbometer of: 18.7 carbs.


Bring back Taco Tuesday!

Happy Carb Counting!