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Healthier Taco Salad

Total time: 30 minutes
     I like to add rice or quinoa to salads to round out the meal.  You can leave it out and have some crusty country bread, if you prefer.  Add more chile powder, more chilies or jalapeños, Tabasco, whatever, to make it as hot as you like. 

Healthier Taco Salad Ingredients:

 Instructions:

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               Nutrition Information
             

Recipe serves 2 
          Entire Recipe / per serving

Calories:  1758 / 879
Total Carbohydrates:  
155 / 77.5
          Dietary Fiber: 22 / 11
Total Fat:  97 / 48.5
         Saturated Fat: 32 / 16
Cholesterol:  218 / 109
Protein:  72 / 36
Calcium:  638 /
319
Sodium:   4822 / 2410

General Technical Details and Disclaimer:

Note:  There are a lot of carbs and sodium in commercial Taco Sauce:  56 carbs and 3658mg sodium

Measurements are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.

I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it.  I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.

My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale
and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/