I Love Tacos but...
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Fun fact: Taco Bell invented the hard taco shell, not Mexicans. I was seriously disappointed to learn that.0
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I don't find them high in calories either. Got some for a taco truck and they were small and I'd be shocked if it was more than 200-250 calories per taco.
Corn shells/tortillas, lean meat, veggies, salsa, light on the cheese, it's very easy to male them low calories too.0 -
Agree with all the above.
Tacos are delicious
Tacos are a great way to get a serving or two of veggies
The cheese, sour cream, and tortillas tend to be the biggest calorie offenders, so go easy on the cheese, use plain Greek yogurt instead of sour cream, and corn tortillas instead of flour. Or if you're really short of calories, skip the tortilla altogether and make a taco salad type creation0 -
I eat tacos at least once a week, it's actually one of my low calorie dinner go-to plan. Stay away from a combination of sour cream, cheese, and heavy on the meat. Do meat, one dairy (easy) and the rest veggies/salsa. Corn tortillas are only 50 cals each and you really only need one if you aren't loading up the fillings anymore. When I buy them from a food truck or restaurant I look up the nutritional information from a popular restaurant chain and use that. Not perfect but it's better to over estimate than under.Make them yourself
I've never eaten a taco so what's in it? Bet you could adapt to a lower calorie version
Oh no
No tacos??? You, ma'am, need to try one asap! There are all different types, my favorite is grilled fish tacos with purple cabbage slaw. https://blueapron.com/recipes/crispy-fish-tacos-with-salsa-verde-red-cabbage-slaw 0 -
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cwolfman13 wrote: »i eat tacos all of the time living here in New Mexico...i don't find them to be particularly high calorie.
I live in New Mexico too!
hurray for tacos from the dirty southwest! 0 -
Try substituting the shell with Lettuce for lettuce wraps. Surprisingly delicious, and way less calories (will keep the carbs down). I felt so much better after tacos with lettuce instead of the hard or soft shells.0
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we love taco tuesdays in our house. I just make them healthy. I get 90/10 lean ground beef (i get ground turkey when i can but my husband and son prefer the beef). I like mine more like a taco salad. If i want the crunch ill crunch up 1/2 a taco shell on top. I personally usually skip the sour cream and shedded cheese. Or I just go really light. I would say you rarely have to stop eating your favorite food. Some people allow it in the calories for the day; i prefer to make healthier versions so i can eat a decent portion and eat well the rest of the day too. (my calories are set to 1200 while i am loosing )0
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Now that I'm really buckling down, I'm just trying to avoid eating foods I haven't made myself. Tonight will be an exception, a family event, but I'm just making my best guesses. You can make you own best guesses based on what's in there. If there's cheese and sour cream, you can bet there's probably more than one serving of each but I'm one who prefers to over estimate than under.0
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maddierisley wrote: »Try substituting the shell with Lettuce for lettuce wraps. Surprisingly delicious, and way less calories (will keep the carbs down). I felt so much better after tacos with lettuce instead of the hard or soft shells.
This is lettuce with meat - not a taco. Maybe call it a spring roll or something.
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MommyL2015 wrote: »Fun fact: Taco Bell invented the hard taco shell, not Mexicans. I was seriously disappointed to learn that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWSOiZrs3oA 0 -
Yo quiero Taco Bell.0
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MommyL2015 wrote: »Fun fact: Taco Bell invented the hard taco shell, not Mexicans. I was seriously disappointed to learn that.
umm, don't think that's right. "Beginning from the early part of the twentieth century, various styles of tacos have become popular in the United States and Canada.[13] An early appearance of a description of the taco in the United States in English was in a 1914 cookbook, California Mexican-Spanish Cookbook, by Bertha Haffner Ginger.[14] The style that has become most common is the hard-shell, U-shaped version described in a cookbook, The good life: New Mexican food, authored by Fabiola Cabeza de Vaca Gilbert and published in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1949"
Freedman, Robert L. (1981). Human food uses: a cross-cultural, comprehensive annotated bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 152. ISBN 0-313-22901-5. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
Taco Bell popularized it, but did not invent it.0 -
MommyL2015 wrote: »Fun fact: Taco Bell invented the hard taco shell, not Mexicans. I was seriously disappointed to learn that.
umm, don't think that's right. "Beginning from the early part of the twentieth century, various styles of tacos have become popular in the United States and Canada.[13] An early appearance of a description of the taco in the United States in English was in a 1914 cookbook, California Mexican-Spanish Cookbook, by Bertha Haffner Ginger.[14] The style that has become most common is the hard-shell, U-shaped version described in a cookbook, The good life: New Mexican food, authored by Fabiola Cabeza de Vaca Gilbert and published in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1949"
Freedman, Robert L. (1981). Human food uses: a cross-cultural, comprehensive annotated bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 152. ISBN 0-313-22901-5. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
Taco Bell popularized it, but did not invent it.
Well, whatever it is that she called a taco was something else ... maybe a 'flauta' but not the a taco and not a U shaped Taco Bell thingamabob.
It looks oddly like a ... on a shell.
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Flautas are round and closed. And smaller.
Hard shell tacos are, indeed, tacos, even if inferior.0 -
DeguelloTex wrote: »Flats are round and closed.
Hard shell tacos are, indeed, tacos, even if inferior.
We are going to have a difference of opinion, Tex. My Mexican soul says this is a taco:
Notice the corn tortilla (not flour), no american cheese, no guacamole, no cream, no iceberg lettuce.
(yes, flautas are round and closed - usually chicken, I was referring to the idea of fried. Tacos are not fried.)0 -
I make tacos starting with 95% lean beef - with the sauce and seasoning, the beef doesn't get dry or flavorless as can be a risk with such lean beef.
I make the meat the star of the show - I go easy on everything else, and eat a whole lot of meat for not a whole lot of calories. Even half a pound (pre-cooking weight) of 95% lean beef is only about 300 calories, and it's a lot of meat.0 -
EvgeniZyntx wrote: »We are going to have a difference of opinion, Tex. My Mexican soul says this is a taco:
Notice the corn tortilla (not flour), no american cheese, no guacamole, no cream, no iceberg lettuce.
(yes, flautas are round and closed - usually chicken, I was referring to the idea of fried. Tacos are not fried.)
that's how tacos tend to look in my neck of the woods...i tend to see more white corn than yellow though.0 -
EvgeniZyntx wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »Flats are round and closed.
Hard shell tacos are, indeed, tacos, even if inferior.
We are going to have a difference of opinion, Tex. My Mexican soul says this is a taco:
Notice the corn tortilla (not flour), no american cheese, no guacamole, no cream, no iceberg lettuce.
(yes, flautas are round and closed - usually chicken, I was referring to the idea of fried. Tacos are not fried.)
Drooling, here.0 -
EvgeniZyntx wrote: »
This looks so yummy!0 -
EvgeniZyntx wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »Flats are round and closed.
Hard shell tacos are, indeed, tacos, even if inferior.
We are going to have a difference of opinion, Tex. My Mexican soul says this is a taco:
Notice the corn tortilla (not flour), no american cheese, no guacamole, no cream, no iceberg lettuce.
(yes, flautas are round and closed - usually chicken, I was referring to the idea of fried. Tacos are not fried.)
I live in Chicago and this is how tacos look like when you go to an authentic (not tex-mex) Mexican restaurant around here! You have to specifically ask for the "american version" with cheese, sour cream, and veggies.0 -
Yes, that's a taco. I like the yellow corn and cilantro, but it's otherwise sadly lacking.EvgeniZyntx wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »Flats are round and closed.
Hard shell tacos are, indeed, tacos, even if inferior.
We are going to have a difference of opinion, Tex. My Mexican soul says this is a taco:
Notice the corn tortilla (not flour), no american cheese, no guacamole, no cream, no iceberg lettuce.
(yes, flautas are round and closed - usually chicken, I was referring to the idea of fried. Tacos are not fried.)
ETA: It needs some queso fresco and pico de gallo, imo. I wouldn't turn it down, though.
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DeguelloTex wrote: »
Yes, that's a taco. I like the yellow corn and cilantro, but it's otherwise sadly lacking.EvgeniZyntx wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »Flats are round and closed.
Hard shell tacos are, indeed, tacos, even if inferior.
We are going to have a difference of opinion, Tex. My Mexican soul says this is a taco:
Notice the corn tortilla (not flour), no american cheese, no guacamole, no cream, no iceberg lettuce.
(yes, flautas are round and closed - usually chicken, I was referring to the idea of fried. Tacos are not fried.)
ETA: It needs some queso fresco and pico de gallo, imo. I wouldn't turn it down, though.
ok, queso fresco would be fine. And the pico de gallo o salsa verde is something you would add yourself before eating. But I agree with you.
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Cranquistador wrote: »That's it! I'm having tacos tonight! I might even have 2 or 3!
I started my day by not logging ... I'm getting alllllll the taco fixings fo' sho'.0 -
EvgeniZyntx wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »
Yes, that's a taco. I like the yellow corn and cilantro, but it's otherwise sadly lacking.EvgeniZyntx wrote: »DeguelloTex wrote: »Flats are round and closed.
Hard shell tacos are, indeed, tacos, even if inferior.
We are going to have a difference of opinion, Tex. My Mexican soul says this is a taco:
Notice the corn tortilla (not flour), no american cheese, no guacamole, no cream, no iceberg lettuce.
(yes, flautas are round and closed - usually chicken, I was referring to the idea of fried. Tacos are not fried.)
ETA: It needs some queso fresco and pico de gallo, imo. I wouldn't turn it down, though.
ok, quest fresco would be fine. And the pico de gallo o salsa verde is something you would add yourself before eating. But I agree with you.
I love a good pico (salsa fresca)...most places i get tacos do put some queso fresca on there, but it's usually just a pinch...i hate when my taco is drowning in cheese...i'm all about the barbacoa.0 -
*wanders off to put chicken and chipotles into the crockpot*
Barbacoa is AMAZING. I did find a decent copycat recipe awhile back, but compared to the price of chicken I typically cannot justify getting beef often.
This may be totally unacceptable, but I think I'm going to shred cabbage to put in my taco tonight. Nom!0 -
I will never live in a world without tacos. That would be unacceptable.
I usually make mine at home, but when buying them out...I just do a nice calorie estimate.
As a vegetarian, it took me a wee bit to make a version that was similar to the tacos I had growing up, but I made one that is basically the same, but no meat and healthier.
We have a vegan taco truck here and I go there often. Yum!!
What do you use for the filling, Shell? The Beyond Meat crumbles?
I will be making tacos this week, methinks.
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