I Will Never Again....

Buy Taco Seasoning.

I love Taco Seasoning.  Its great...on tacos {duh}, on chicken, mixed with beans and rice, enchiladas, I even use it for a few Master Mix salads.  Pretty much, I love the stuff.  Buuuuuttttt.....I don't use it very often.  Have you seen how much sodium is in the packets?  So when I do use it, I try to buy the "Less Sodium" option...even still, that's a lot of salt.

And since I don't buy the packets very much when I actually want to use one I occasionally don't have one.  

Now, I won't ever need another taco seasoning packet.

Here's the recipe I found this past week {and loved}

1 Tbsp. Chili Powder

1/4 tsp. Garlic Powder

1/4 tsp. Onion Powder

1/4 tsp. Crushed Red Pepper Flakes

1/4 tsp. Dried Oregano

1/2 tsp. Paprika

1 1/2 tsp. Ground Cumin

1 tsp. Salt

1 tsp. Black Pepper

Now you know, or you should by now, I am exceedingly flexible with recipes.  For instance, I didn't have paprika, I didn't add salt, I added way more garlic powder than 1/4 tsp, and I also added more chili powder and ground cumin.  Oh, and Red Pepper Flakes.  I love things hot and I love things garlicky.

This Taco Seasoning was amazing.  It was truly wonderful, the cumin is what really makes it (that's also the predominant smell in the packet stuff, hence it being the predominant ingredient, it's the what makes taco seasoning taco seasoning...at least to me).

I have an empty chili powder spice container.  The recipe above makes enough for about one hefty use.  I plan on making enough to fill my empty container and keeping it in my spice cupboard for use whenever I feel like it.  Notice how I'm re-using too!  Yay Earth!  It's the little things. 

I love controlling what goes into my food.  Even if its something as little as the spices, or as significant as being able to opt out of sodium when I want.  Salt free spices are occasionally hard to find.  But salt free spice mixes are not hard to make!