I use taco seasoning on lean (97%) ground beef and chicken, but I recently found an old packet of El Paso Taco Seasoning when I was cleaning out the pantry and remembered the old days of buying things instead of home making them!
I know that homemaking things takes more time and that’s why I don’t homemake everything. And, there are certain things on my list of recipes I want to try to make myself like….nut butters [the ingredients on my Maranatha Peanut Butter are simply peanuts…how hard could it be?!] and BBQ sauce for starters.
I encourage you to think about ANYTHING you can make from scratch that will eliminate the dreaded preservatives and additives!!
I also encourage you to read the ingredients of EVERYTHING you eat!!! You’ll be amazed if you’ve never done this before!!
Two great general rule s[if you're in doubt] …
- if it has MORE THAN 5 ingredients, put it back!
- if you don’t recognize or can’t pronounce it, put it back!
Check out the ingredients on this El Paso Taco Seasoning…yuck!
Let’s dissect these ingredients: #1 ingredient is maltodextrin . um, what? the #1 ingredient isn’t a spice but an “additive”. Yuck. Let’s read on….. preservative = bad. partially hydrogenated = trans fat = bad. natural flavor = what is that? spice = which ones? sugar = why?
If you were able to read the nutrition facts, you’d see that there are 90 calories (multiply the 15 cal per serving by 6 in the whole packet) and 18 grams of carbs. Not that those are horrible numbers when you think about this one packet per pound of ground beef, BUT when you read my recipe I think you’ll see 0 calories and 0 carbs due to the ingredients simply being spices.
I just picked a…
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