Hi guys!
This is going to be a quick one because I’m off to support my man and watch him play intramural softball!
Tonight I whipped up one of my favorite go-to meals – Taco Salads!
My taco salad had:
- Mixed greens
- 93% lean ground beef + taco seasonings
- Taco seasoned shredded cheese
- Chopped raw broccoli
- 3 baby Campari tomatoes
- Drizzle of ranch dressing
It doesn’t look like it – but I promise there’s taco meat in there…
Oh, there it is! 
What a fabulous way to get a nice, big serving of veggies but also have it taste a little more exciting than your everyday salad!
The ranch kind of takes the place of “sour cream” for me 
I don’t even want to tell you how much ranch dressing I used to eat in college…it would frighten you. It frightens me…!
This was light and satisfying – just perfect for sitting in the stands rooting for Ben! 
Have a fabulous evening everyone!!
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What’s something you used to eat that looking back now, you’re slightly appalled at?
In addition to the copious amounts of ranch I used to eat in college, there was a period of time in highschool where…get ready for this…I had a Twinkie and a regular Coke for my afterschool snack everyday!!! Like…what the h8ll was I thinking?! I didn’t gain weight because I danced at a studio 3 days a week and practiced on my school’s dance team 5 mornings a week, so I guess it just never occured to me that maybe that snack wasn’t the best decision ever?! Ugh!
I haven’t eaten dinner yet and now I’m starving looking at that!
As far as past eating habits, there was the summer of eating only a hotdog every day for lunch. No bun. I had no idead what good eating was.
I think I have you beat – I used to eat sleeves of girl scout cookies as an after school snack. Yep! It breaks my heart to turn the sweet girls down when they come to my door, but the cookies would be gone in 2.2 flat. An expensive habit.
The taco salad looks amazing! Love all of the colors.
Kristin, I think most of us get why a Twinkie and a Coke are not an ideal snack. Ignore those who come on here and be rude.
Taco salad looks great, have a nice evening @ the softball game.
That taco salad looks fab! That’s definitely one of my go to meals. I ate some pretty bad stuff in my day too! There was one summer in high school, think it was the summer before my junior year, that my BFF and I would go to taco bell EVERY day maybe twice a day and I would always get a bean and cheese burrito and a Mountain Dew! Literally, all summer long! Ha!
Basically I regret everything I ever had at my grandparent’s house lol. Remember those maple leaf shaped cookies that had the maple filling? I don’t know how many of those I used to eat, but now that I know each one has a gram trans fat I’m surprised I lived through 5th grade
My lunch for my entire junior year of high school consisted of shocktarts and a lo-carb bar. Ick. Chemicals and sugar, not the best choice. I also cannot believe really any of the fast food I used to eat.
It makes me a little sick to think of the amount of cheese I ate when I was in college. I lived in a sorority and I swear to God our house mom must have ordered cheese by the truckload.
I also used to drink 2-3 cans of Mountain Dew a day… Yeesh.
I used to eat lots and lots of Hostess Cupcakes! I worked in a drug store so I had easy access to them! I used to wash them down with Pepsi and/or Coke. It horrifies me to think how many of those things I used to eat. Oh – and in college, I used to get pizza several times a week in the cafeteria and I would dip it in ranch dressing. Sooo tasty, but sooo unhealthy!
Ignore rude commenters… I used to go to McDonalds EVERY DAY after school and get a Coke and a burger for a snack… here’s hoping my metabolism makes a comeback!
I remember eating sickening amounts of fruit roll-ups and white cheddar popcorn in college.
Oh my and that damn ice cream machine in the dining hall. It got me everytime!
Good thing I only lasted a year on campus before moving back home and commuting to another school. I think I would be 300 lbs by now if I stayed.
Awww, happy upcoming birthday! Can’t wait to see what your man has planned for you. I’m sure it will be amazing!
i love taco salads!! they are soo delicious
hmmm…I am probably most appalled that I used to eat Little Debbie doughnuts. I just can’t eat those anymore.
College was a haze of Mtn Dew, Pepsi, homemade chocolate chip cookies (made by the lovely cafeteria ladies), Taco Night, & Whitey’s ice cream. But the best of all was senior year, when my roommates and I would eat those Lipton rice packets as dinner, not a side dish but as the meal (Brocc & Cheese was my fav!)
I used to eat McDonald’s french fries dipped in sundae. Yikes!
I remember eating two cake donuts and a can of diet coke every morning for breakfast during high school.
And one summer during college I ate jelly beans and pretzels for lunch every day…because they were fat free.
Ugh.
I used to eat ranch with everything!! Now I barely ever have it.
I used to eat a KING size Milky Way or a Honey Bun every single day with a Dr. Pepper to wash it down.
I disgust myself.
Salad looks great!!
I used to eat 5 waffles + loads of syrup for breakfast. Ack! And I used to get a regular coke along with a huge malted ice cream everyday during lunch (in addition to my lunch!).
Normal for a lot of people, but I can’t believe I used to eat that much!
I have some organic vegan ranch dressing in my cupboard…I think I know how I will use it now:)
I am appalled at some of my after school snacks from years ago. I used to eat Zebra Cakes (by Little Debbie) or sometimes I would eat about half a box of Teddy Grahams. Eek!
When we were in HS we used to go to Wendy’s for snack after school & we would get Frostys and French Fries & dip our fries in the Frosty!
WTH was I thinking? LOL!
Oh wow. Taco salad looks awesome!
I hear you about stuff you used to eat in college… That’s when I got into being super healthy. Let’s see…. how about a LARGE DQ Blizzard every night? Along with Dominos breadsticks. I’m appalled that I ever ate white bread or white pasta! I’m such a health nut now. How I stayed in a healthy weight range in those first few years of college is beyond me. I packed on 25 pounds…and lost 30 of it and am now super healthy and a huge foodie.
Healthy foodie.
in college, i drank like 3 or 4 cans of coke a day. now i can barely finish 1 if even.. i might drink like 1/2 a can and be done with it.
I don’t recall your twinkie habit…but I do remember downing like three 20 oz. regular mountain dews during study hall. AND…going to Panera for cream of chicken wild rice soup for an after school “snack” SICK!
I loooove taco salads! That one looks great!
I used to love little debbie cakes, any kind….it was one of the few treats we had at my house so I enjoyed them! (although to my mother’s credit I think we only got 1/2 at a time…)
Totally made me so hungry just now
If I wasn’t eating a bag of Vic’s white cheddar popcorn for lunch everyday, it was the BK original chicken sandwich dipped in BBQ sauce or Taco bell. EVERY DAY. And nope, I didn’t omit the mayo even. And huge amounts of regular pepsi! I’m talking a 2 liter sometimes! And no, I wasn’t obese or even overweight…oh how I miss my metabolism! Oh, and soccer helped too!
I have only just started realizing what healthy eating is in the last few years, looking back, I don’t know how I’ve avoided having a heart attack.
When I was little, my mom let me eat Little Debbie snacks for breakfast! Like, a fudge round, for BREAKFAST!
Then in HS I ate fast food for lunch almost every single day and probably again after school, all before eating dinner at night!
College got a little better, but you better believe there were fried foods out the wahoo at the bars and pizza and taco bell were never a distant memory!
Oh well, you live you learn!
In college I ate Ding Dongs every night for my entire 3 year stint in the honors dorm. I got them out of the machine in the basement, sometimes two packs a night. No wonder I didn’t sleep well — all those chemicals, fats, and sugar.
Rice Sides and cream soda, all.the.time. It took drunken vomiting after a batch of the Creamy Chicken variety to get me over my Rice Side addiction.