Faux Taco Salad

You can make one salad, two salads, or a big bowl of salad. Depends on if you are going to Faux it alone. This ingredients list is for 4 servings.

Upon combining this salad, you might find you want more cheese, and less cucumbers. Or more tomatoes and less beans. So as you are tossing this into your single serving salad bowl, just eyeball how many of each item you might want.

I like to chop things in little cubes – it’s just more fun to eat. So chop up the cheese into cubes, and the cucumbers into cubes. Then cut the grape tomatoes into thirds.

I’m one of those strange people who like to have every piece of my lettuce and salad ingredients covered with the dressing. Plus I don’t like to stick my fork into a huge piece of lettuce, then I can’t shove it into my mouth. Not very lady like, now is it?

So chop up the lettuce into smaller pieces.

Be sure to rinse and strain the beans thoroughly in cold water.

Now get your bowl out, individual one is fine too, if you are going to Faux it alone. Get a deep bowl, cause you’re gonna want to toss this all around and get the stuff good covered with dressing.

Combine lettuce, beans, cheese cubes, cucumber, tomatoes and don’t skimp on the Fritos! Add Catalina dressing to your taste buds.

I love this Faux Taco Salad for several reasons.

1. Tomatoes, cucumber, beans . . . pretty healthy so far right? Well sometimes I want to eat something good for me, but I want to have a little “zing” of bad for me. That’s where the Fritos come in! They really hit the spot without eating the whole bag!

2. Coolness of the cucumber, and tomato, with the tangy flavor of the dressing and extra sharp cheese, and then Wham, the salty of the Fritos! Perfect combination.

3. Plus, sometimes I just don’t feel like frying up hamburger! Faux Taco Salad!