Greedy Recipe! Warm ‘n Tasty Bella Burrito

Sharpen the claws of your teeth and prepare your for chewing jaws for action. I fed this Warm Bella Burrito with its fiesta of fresh ingredients to my stomachs, and now I just gotta share it with you, too.

INGREDIENTS (serves 6 people, measurements are approximate)

warm Mission Tortillas2 packages baby Portobello mushrooms (sliced & sauteed)1.5 cups cooked brown rice1 mashed avocado1.5 cups shredded pepper jack cheese1.5 cups black beans (warmed)1.5 cups homemade salsa fresca (scroll down for the recipe)little bit of salsa verde (optional)

DIRECTIONS: Prepare all individual ingredients and then build your burrito. Just wrap this baby up and begin to fro down. This is one of those recipes that you really can’t mess up. (Not unless you pack too much food on the tortilla, and then the whole damn thing breaks apart.)

Optionally, you can add cooked, diced chicken to your burrito as well. That’s what I had to do for the family because they wouldn’t stop whining unless I added meat to theirs.

Homemade Salsa Fresca (Pico de Gallo): Ingredients

2 tomatoes1 small onion2 scallionslittle bit of chopped Cilantro1/2 Jalapeno Pepper

Salsa Directions: Just slice, dice and mix it all up. Then add to your burrito. Greedy Kid #1 made the salsa fresca all by herself (give her some hand claps, everybody!). She did a dang good job.

There were enough prepped burrito ingredients leftover for me to pack tomorrow’s lunch. Make sure you’re thinking ahead and pre-planning your meals for optimal fat melting results! Have a great day, everybody. XO

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Greedy Recipe! Parsley Red Potatoes (It’s Tasty ‘n Stuff)

Start right here, with Green Giant red potatoes. I got the 10 pound bag, because the peoples in my house are excessively greedy. My Parsley Red Potatoes are great as part of a family meal, holiday meal (think Easter), or anytime meal on a day when you’ve worked out hardcore and need some extra fuel. I am NOT afraid of the occasional dish of red potatoes. My metabolism embraces it.

So do this:

Whoops! Forgot to add a pic that shows where you boil the potatoes after you cube them, BEFORE you move on to pic #3.

And that’s parsley flakes in pic #3 with some buttah. Go on and be parley-generous, because that’s where the extra flavors will bitch-slap your taste buds into ecstasy. Heat up the butter and parsley flakes until sizzly, then add the boiled potatoes cubes and stir around gently until coated with the parsley. It’s even better to get a little golden brown sear going on those potatoes.

Add some salt, and waalaaa! The final product is fanciness and wonderment. Parsley Red Potatoes is so simple, yet so powerfully delicious. It totally transforms a basic red potato into a supah star! You will be an instant hero to anyone you feed them to.

…and I’m totally giggly at this video from Green Giant. Yes, I’m in it, so watch it! Does this mean I’m famous now?? Oh, never mind then.

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Tasty Bite Kashmir Spinach Review

Sometimes, Tasty Bite makes products that look ... doubtful ... but tastes so darn good, like the Tasty Bite Madras Lentils - that's what I was thinking when I looked at this Tasty Bite Kashmir Spinach. The box advertises the dish as "curried spinach sauteed with Paneer cheese", but it looks like green mush with a few chunks of cheese dispersed throughout - but that doesn't mean it tastes awful ... right?

NUTRITION FACTS
Serving Size: 1/2 pack (5 ounces)
Calories: 130
Total Fat: 8 grams, 12%
Saturated Fat: 3 grams, 15%
Sodium: 690 mg, 29%
Carbohydrates: 8 grams
Fiber: 3 grams, 12%
Sugars: 2 grams
Protein: 6 grams

Well, this wasn't as gross as you think it would be from the looks of it, but it wasn't that good either. It tastes like when something hasn't reduced enough yet - thin watery and salty. "Curried" they say - ha! This has a little spicy heat to it, but not enough to make it good, and curry this is NOT. There wasn't a whole lot of paneer cheese - and it didn't impart any flavor anyway. I used it as a kind of dip for the breaded Veggie Patch Chik'n Cutlets I was having for lunch and it was okay in a sort of - it's not making me gag and I paid for this, so I might as well have some of it - plus I need to eat enough to be able to write an accurate review. A little ramekin bowl was about all I could manage, and the rest went into the trash. I hate wasting food - but this had to go.

A serving size is 1/2 of the pack, and provides 130 calories, 8 grams of total fat (12% of the daily value), 3 grams of saturated fat (15%of the DV), 690 mg sodium (29% of the DV), 3 grams of fiber (12% of the DV), 2 grams of sugars and 6 grams of protein. The ingredients are simply, Spinach, Water, Paneer Cheese, Onions, Tomatoes, Sunflower Oil, Garlic, Cornstarch, Salt, Yeast Extract Natural Flavor, Chilies, Cumin.

The good: Tasty Bite Kashmir Spinach is Kosher (dairy), vegetarian, gluten-free, contains no msg and no preservatives, and made using all natural and fresh ingredients. Also quick preparation in a microwave.

The bad: The taste ... but if I saw it for $0.50 and I was really strapped for cash, I would buy it and stomach it with some rice. If I saw it for $1.00 - I would leave it. And knowing what I know now, I certainly wouldn't have spent my hard earned $3.99 on this.

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Tasty Bite Madras Lentils Review

Tasty Bite makes all natural, Indian & pan Asian food products - a lot of them vegetarian & gluten free. I had a box of Tasty Bite Madras Lentils laying around the house, and I decided to hook it up with some bow-tie pasta. The directions on the box were super-simple, if a bit messy. Simply open the pouch, pour out the contents into a microwaveable bowl (I ended up scooping out a lot of it with my fingers), and then microwaving for 90 seconds.

NUTRITION FACTS
Serving Size: 1/2 pack (142.5 grams)
Calories: 120
Total Fat: 5 grams, 8%
Saturated Fat: 3 grams, 15%
Sodium: 450 mg, 18%
Carbohydrates: 14 grams
Fiber: 5 grams, 20%
Sugar: 3 grams
Protein: 6 grams

The result looked like a hot mess! Brown & thick - I thought, there is no way this is going to be tasty. And then I had a bite. It was DELICIOUS! There is a slight spicy kick at the end of a bite, and the texture is not too mushy. There was a perfect harmony to the not-too-tomatoey suace, the seasonings & the beans. If you're ever thinking of making red beans & rice - well, thanks to Tasty Bite, half the work has already been done for you.

Each pouch of Tasty Bite Madras Lentils has 2 servings, each of which provides 120 calories, 5 grams of total fat, 3 grams of which is saturated (8% and 15% of the daily value), 450 mg of sodium (18% of the DV), 5 grams of fiber (20%), 3 grams of sugars & 6 grams of protein.

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The ingredients are water, tomatoes, netils, red beans, onions, cream, salt, butter, sunflower oil, chilies, cumin. Tasty Bite Madras Lentils are vegetarian, gluten-free & Kosher. They can be purchased online at $2.99 for a 10 ounce box.

I LOVED this product. Although I mentioned this would be great for a red beans & rice dish, I used it as a meat substitute in spaghetti - I don't eat ground beef, and I didn't miss the meat at all. This is going to be a pantry staple - quick & easy to prepare, tasty, all natural ingredients list - you don't get much better than that.

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Deluxe Weight Watchers Light and Tasty (WIN)

From the leading name in sensible eating, the new Weight Watchers Light and Tasty Deluxe serves up a bounty of recipes from ten of its best-selling cookbooks. Dishing up 2,250 easy recipes that are low in fat and high in flavor, this tasty collection is sure to please your palate!

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Deluxe Weight Watchers Light and Tasty (WIN)

From the leading name in sensible eating, the new Weight Watchers Light and Tasty Deluxe serves up a bounty of recipes from ten of its best-selling cookbooks. Dishing up 2,250 easy recipes that are low in fat and high in flavor, this tasty collection is sure to please your palate!

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