After a very busy morning of playing outside in the snow, we had nachos for lunch. When my daughter was a toddler, she adored three meals that she never seemed to tire of: nachos, salad and yogurt. And we're not talking plain old processed cheese and chips as nachos. We made nachos piled high with real cheese, refried beans, black olives, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream and salsa- regular and mango!
Daddy makes nachos for dinner or lunch. We use canned vegetarian refried beans (though I bought beans to make my own and never got around to doing it.) We grate our own cheese. The organic mango salsa from Wegmans is the key. In two tablespoons of salsa (and we tend to eat 1/4 to 1/2 cup each instead of 2 TBSP), there's 15% of your RDA of vitamin C and 15% vitamin A, gotta love that mango!
So even though nachos traditionally seem like junk food, in my book, they are not. Real cheese for lots of calcium, tomatoes and lettuce for vegetable matter, beans for protein and fiber, and the salsa for the vitamin content.
Vegetarian refried beans? No commprende. Beans are a legume. They are vegetarian. Isn't that redundant?
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