Cheap and Easy Vegan Food!

This is one of my favorite items at Trader Joe's. It's only $.79 a packet, and I get quite a few uses out of one packet. Unlike other taco seasoning packets this isn't full of scary weird ingredients. It also is very mildly spicy so I would say it's safe even for people who can't tolerate or just don't like spice. 

I used it to make some lentil/quinoa taco filling the other night. With shredded romaine and some smoky spicy salsa. I made extra taco filling because I wanted to try totchos for the first time ever.

First I made some potato queso. This was a really good batch and it was super hard to not just eat it like soup.

I realized too late that I should have plated this on a plate instead of in a bowl because this just looks like a salad! But trust me it's a big bowl of totchos! I started with tater tots, added the lentil/quinoa taco mixture followed by tons of potato queso, green onions and scallions, shredded romaine, salsa, and of course avocado. This was AMAZING! I don't know what took me so long to try totchos, but I will definitely be making these again! And the possibilities are endless, I'm thinking Buffalo chickpea totchos, and some type of sloppy lentil totcho.

This was my dinner last night. I made cold sesame noodles and had them with some shredded romaine and baked tofu. I made the noodles in the morning so all I had to do was bake the tofu and shred the lettuce. So easy!! And I really love the cold soft noodles with the crisp cold romaine plus the warm tofu. Lots of textures, flavors and temperatures.

Spotted all over downtown. Thought provoking!