TACO SOUP
From the book: Formula 101, pg 115

1 ½ pounds extra -lean ground sirloin (I use ground turkey)
1 tbsp olive oil
1 cup diced onion
1 clove minced garlic
28 ounce canned tomatoes (my family hates chopped tomatoes so I used a can of tomato sauce instead
15 ounce canned tomato sauce (second can of this)
15 ¼ ounce canned black beans with juice 8 ¾ ounce canned corn, with juice
1 ounce package of taco seasoning mix

sour cream, reduced fat
shredded cheese
taco shell

In a medium heavy pot, heat oil.  Add the ground sirloin/ or ground turkey and brown (I already had this browned in my freezer)

Add onion and garlic and cook for 5 minutes

Add canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, beans, corn, and taco seasoning mix.  Cook 30 minutes longer.

In individual servings top with shreddred cheese, sourcream, and crumbled taco shells

July 22, 2003
I was hungry and felt like something warm to eat…I also was in a hurry. I made this recipe against my better judgment, I didn't think it would really turn out well.
Surprise, it was great!!! And EVERYONE loved it!!
The crumbled corn shells added a lot to this as well as the sour cream.

Went to the country fair afterwards. Wonderful family night!

Made this November 9th with left over chicken, in place of sirloin meat or ground turkey. This is definitley the way to go! Matt even liked it when I made it this way. Just think of the fat you would cut out! (See the below chart) Instead of 17 grams of fat (a 4 oz portion of  ground turkey meat) it would be 4.0 grams of fat, per every 3.0 of chicken. 4 instead of 17! And it would probably be 2 grams since you probably wouldn't eat an entire 3 oz in a bowl of soup. Tastes great, healthier! (I'm not sure the protein count on this, I'll have to research that. )

Made this again November 16, 2004
trying to calculate my total daily fiber, protein, and fat grams, so I broke the following out:
made taco soup, this is hard to calculate
a 4oz. portion of turkey meat is (in a tube of turkey meat, package by Walmart, $1.07), there are 4 servings.

17 grams of fat  18 grams of protein
However, I didn't have a whole 4 oz. I had 2 very small bowls of this soup, a small bowl is 1/2 cup (I don't fill it to the top, so 1/2 cup is the closest calculation.
The bowl isn't totally filled with meat, obviously, in fact, I try to stay away from the meat. So let's estimate that I got 2 ounces, total, and I think that's an estimate on the high side. 2 ounces of turkey meat would be 8 grams of fat, 9 grams of protein.
The beans, I put in 2 whole cans of this:
a serving size is 1/2 cup, fat is 1 gram, protein is 7 grams, fiber is 7 grams
for both servings of soup that I had, total of 1 cup, let's estimate that I got just 1/4 cup of beans, another high estimate

creamed corn, 1/2 cup, has 0.5 fat, 2 grams of fiber, 1 gram of protein  I put 2 whole cans of this in, but I don't really think I got a 4th of a cup. I'll just leave this out of the entire equation.
There was also tomatoes, I did use the peels of about 4 tomatoes, so there was fiber in this (Vita -mix blender) and actually, now that I think of it, the other frozen tomatoes also had the skin, so there was probably some fiber in that. 1 tomatoe has 1.5 gram of fiber, I must have had at least 10 tomatoes in this soup. So I'll go ahead and claim 1.5 grams of fiber for the soup.
I used tortillas for the crackers (super good for you as far as natural goes, corn, water, salt, vegetable oil, trace of lime)
6 chips is one serving:  6 grams of fat, 2 grams of protein, 2 grams of fiber. I'm sure I used every bit of  chips, I'm going to guess I used at least 6 chips per 1/2 cup of bowl I ate. 12 grams of fat!!

November 5, 2006

This is a family favorite. I make it often in the winter,  at least once a month. When I make it, I quadruple the recipe in a huge pot, then put a lot of servings away in the freezer for those days I don't have time to cook.  I haven't found anyone that doesn't like this soup.  I had some college girls over last year and they loved it, as well as my new daughter-in-law, and my own girls rave about it.  It's easy, it's healthy, and it's good!