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This week while coming up with easy recipes to make for lunches I decided to go with Beef Burritos. I bought a bunch of ingredients that I through together to form 8 1lb burritos (with extra filling for later) I estimated at $1.73 each.

Ingredients

1 Small Package of White or Brown Rice [$1.50]
2 Cans of Black Beans [2@$0.70]
1/2 Small Bag Frozen Yellow Corn (about 1 can) [$0.60]
1 Jar Medium Salsa [$1.00, I got it on sale]
1 Cup diced red onion [$1.00]
8 9″ Burrito Shells (you can always get bigger ones too!) [$1.30]
1lb of Hamburger meat (feel free to substitute chicken/steak) [$2.50]
1 Package of Taco Meat Seasoning

Ground Black Pepper
Ground Red Pepper
Crushed Red/Green Peppers (The stuff you put on pizza)
Garlic Powder

Optional Ingredients

Shredded Mexican Cheese
Sour Cream

Instructions

In a separate pan cook the entire bag of rice according to the instructions on the bag. Make sure it doesn’t dry out otherwise you’ll burn the rice! Also make sure you constantly stir this throughout the next few steps.

Start a large pan on medium heat. The kind of pan you could cook soup in. We’ll be eventually adding the rice to this mixture! Throw the red-onion, corn, the entire jar of salsa, and black beans (including the liquid!!! It makes excellent sauce).

In a separate pan fry the meat, poor off excess grease, and add the Taco Meat Seasoning mix to it.

Add your seasoned meat to the large pan with the red-onion/beans/salsa/corn. Stir.

Once the rice is done (soft to the bite) add it to the pan with the other ingredients. Turn down the heat to low. Stir.

Add the various seasonings to taste. Do not go over crazy on the Garlic Powder, we’re not making Italian burritos here!

Steam your burrito shells. To do this in the microwave take a large plate and put a bowl filled half way of water on top of it. You can set each individual burrito shell on top of the bowl of water and microwave for 20 seconds on each side. This does an excellent job of steaming the shell so it’ll be easily malleable.

Once the shell has been steamed add the Burrito mix you just made, cheese, sour cream, or whatever else you like. Roll, enjoy!

Servings

Makes 8-11 1lb burritos in a 9″ burrito shell.

Bottom Line

I ended up making 8 burritos at about $1.16 each. Because I had excess burrito filling left over, if I had more shells I could have made 2-3 more… putting the price to $0.85 each!

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Ingredients
2-3 Eggs
1 Green Pepper
1 Tomato
1/4 Red Onion
Small Tortilla Shells
Crushed/Dried red peppers
Fresh Ground Black Pepper
Garlic Powder
Salsa (optional)
Grated Cheese (optional)

Instructions
Finely dice up the peppers, onions and tomatoes as best you can. Cook the green peppers, onions, and tomatoes in a skillet on medium heat until the water from the tomatoes are almost evaporated. While cooking apply a light helping of red pepper, black pepper, and garlic powder to taste. Scramble up the eggs and poor them on top of the vegetables. Mix around until the eggs are fully cooked (they should look like scrambled eggs with stuff in them). In another skillet on low heat gently warm the tortilla shells for 30 seconds on each side. Once eggs are fully cooked put egg mixture in the warmed tortilla shells, apply cheese if desired, and wrap them up. Sometimes these are good with a little bit of salsa on them.

Ingredients
4c. of flour
1c. of milk (you may substitute for water)
1 packet of active dry yeast (or 1/4 tsp)
1 Tbs sugar
1/2 c. (or 1 stick) of salt-free butter
3 Large Eggs (you may exclude these for a flat/dense crust)
1 tsp Vegetable oil (or cooking spray, but that’ll make it taste funny)

Instructions
Warm the milk (or water) in a microwave safe bowl for about 45 seconds or until warm to touch. Poor the yeast into the warm milk bowl and let set for one minute without stirring. Lightly mix the remaining contents of the yeast into the milk.

In another large bowl mix/cut the remaining dry ingredients with a fork (flour, sugar). Once mixed poor the yeast solution into the bowl with your dry ingredients. Using your hands mix well the yeast solution into the flour. At this point there is probably more flour than yeast solution, so it should be pretty dry still.

In a separate bowl beat the eggs with a whisk. Poor the egg solution into the bowl and mix it into the contents of the bowl. If the bowl’s contents get too wet, feel free to add more flour at this time.

In a separate microwavable bowl place the butter. Put in the microwave until liquid. Poor the butter solution into the bowl and mix one last time until all is dissolved and the dough forms a firm ball. If more flour is needed, feel free to add more at this time.

Apply a thin layer of vegetable oil to a bowl with enough room for three times the size of your current ball of dough. Place the ball of dough into the oiled bowl and let stand for 1-2 hours or until dough has enlarged almost three times it’s size.

Makes 2 large fluffy pizza crusts.

Over the course of the last four to five weeks I have lost about 15 pounds. Come to find out salt causes your body to retain the fatty fluids that make up… uh… fat. Mostly removing salt from your diet can cause drastic weight loss with little or no exercise. I’ll start posting salt free recipes I create. My goal is to start doing this at least once a week.

Until next time,
Daniel Slaughter