Tacos

I can hear it already... "she starts a meal prep/cooking blog and she makes TACOS?!?" How incredibly unoriginal. Sorry, it was coming sooner than later... happens to be Genevieve's favorite meal (she often puts away 3-4 jumbo shell tacos, 5-6 if they are the regular size.). Pretty standard stuff here. I use this low-sodium recipe for the meat seasoning and make it in bulk for the pantry. I started doing that out of necessity since I couldn't do the sodium in the usual old packets but the flavor of this is much better, and it's also cheaper. Shells are corn with zero sodium. Normal toppings -- black beans (lo-so from a can), tomatoes, lettuce, avocado, shredded cheese, sour cream. Made some cilantro-lime rice for the side (that's my blue plate that has the ridiculous amount of cilantro... everyone else goes a bit more mild on it).

What was monumental tonight was, we told Owen, enough was enough and he was going to TRY a taco. Like, more than a mouse bite. All we put in his was the shell, meat, and cheese. He does like chili (an anomaly) and my chili seasoning is not all that different from the taco meat flavors. It was a ton of hemming and hawing but he did put away about 1/4 of a jumbo taco. Baby steps. And he liked the cilantro rice better than Gigi did!