A super healthy and delicious lunch.

Not mine, just an example

Ingridients:
raw tortillas- cooked on skillet, no butter or anything else that would taint there flavor!
1 can black beans (I rinse mine to get rid of the extra junk they're sitting in)
1/4 red onion, chopped into salsa sized bites- I use a lot b/c I loves me some onion
cucumber, also chopped to salsa sized bites- to your liking
tomato, also chopped to salsa sized bites- lots!
avocado-to your liking, I like a lot!
lettuce (I prefer green leaf or romaine, as they are heartier lettuces)-to your liking
lemon (real and fresh, not from a bottle)- half a lemon squeezed
cumin-to your liking, I like a lot
fresh cilantro-loads of it! I love cilantro!
salt and pepper-about 2 hints
garlic (fresh- not dry)-to your liking
chili powder-to your liking
cinnamon-just a hint
graded cheese (this is my non-healthy cheat, just a little though!)

Chop and combine! Mix the avocado all around as a sort of delicious glue. Everything must be fresh, except for the cumin, chili powder, beans ( they're canned...), salt and pepper, and cinnamon.

DO NOT COOK ANYTHING BUT THE TORTILLAS and cheese. I cook one side of the tortilla, toss on a little cheese, and add everything else cold. Every time your process food (aka heat or cool it) it loses nutrients), so eat as much of it fresh and raw as possible. Also, feel free to add any veggies or peppers to your liking! Make your own. Personally though, I'd avoid meat (this isn't a meat dish, it's all about the flavors of everything else and meat tends to boss the other flavors around), corn (our bodies don't digest corn that well- but if you are going to have it, get it fresh on the cob and just cut it off raw, it tastes divine!!!), sour cream, too much cheese, or anything else that would distract from the amazing flavors already in the dish. That last line was a bit redundant...oh well.
P.s. Cucumbers aren't especially in season :( ....but I just loooooove them!!!

This isn't my dish, but I ate my dish before I could take a picture...haha. This looks similar, minus the avocado, and plus some corn

Yummy things!

I think I think about food too much...haha! Well I wanted to share some more yummy foods that I've made recently- both are cost conscience concoctions.

The first are homemade granola bars! I eat a lot of granola bars and usually I just buy the Quaker smores one, but they’re loaded with junk and sugar and they really add up when you buy them all of the time. So I googled and combined my findings. This is what I came up with:

-Wheat germ (organic bulk bins-aka, super cheap!)

-6 grain oats (organic bulk bins-aka, super cheap!)

-Dark carob chips (no sugar or junk alternatives to chocolate chips! Also from the organic bulk bins)

-Utah made organic honey (organic bulk bins-aka, super cheap!)

- Fresh crushed in the store peanut butter (organic bulk bins-aka, super cheap!)
- Sundrops (no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. Their color comes from beet juice, beta carotene and natural caramel. Their chocolate centers are made with rich milk chocolate, sweetened with evaporated cane juice and a touch of unsulphered molasses, organic bulk bins-aka, super cheap!)
-organic brown sugar (organic bulk bins-aka, super cheap!)
-organic butter

You can basically add whatever you want! Dried berries, nuts etc. Just boil the sugar, peanut butter and butter and pour that over everything else. Spread out flat and let cool and cut into bars (or be lazy and break in random chunk and put into a Ziploc:)) YUMMY! They taste like no bake cookies, or as my family calls them- poop cookies, but think they've got to be healthier than those smore bars I was sucking down every day! Oh yeah, I didn't really measure, I just tossed a bunch in so I would have a lot!!!

Next- turkey cilantro meatballs.

Okay, I've been wanting some serious meat lately, but meat is super exspensive! So last night I bought some jenny-O ground turkey. It cost about 2 bucks and it has all sorts of possibilities!

-Fresh cilantro (costs about a buck)
-Cumin
-Fresh garlic (super cheap, even the organic stuff)
-Cinnamon
-Chili pepper

With your hands massage all of the spices and ripped up cilantro leaves in a bowl until well blended. Form into balls shapes and plop into a pan with grape seed oil and fresh cut onion. Cook until inside and out is brown. You could eat these in tacos, burritos or any Latin dish, but I put mine on a big bed of lettuce and kidney beas with some fresh made cilantro ranch dressing (tons of fresh cilantro, ranch-coyote ranch from Utah is the best- but it’s fattening, water or milk, a tiny bit of garlic and lime or lemon if you want- but the acid tends to curdle the dairy).

Enjoy!