Fajitas

Peruse your grocery stores' frozen veggie section and see what they have. I love eating fresh veggies but for some things we make, the frozen ones work great, too. We found a coupon at the store for some Fred Meyer brand bags of veggies. We thought we would try it out. We got a few bags of of bell pepper and onion mix. We used it to make homemade fajitas. It was super tasty and way cheap. So, when there was a sale recently, we got as many bags of veggies as we could fit into our freezer. They were $.50 for a twelve ounce bag. That works out to be around $.67 a pound for bell peppers and onions. We can't find fresh for that much. Plus, we use the exact amount of the frozen veggies as we want and what is left over isn't going to go bad.

Here is what we use to make our fajitas. Yes, it may be boring to lots of people (people who don't have as much money in the bank as we do) but we like it and it's cheap. Cheap, as in, less than $1 for an entire satisfying meal for the two of us. And it's great for when it's hotter than blazes out. This is one of the only cooked meals we have had this summer.

Olive oil

Frozen peppers and onions

Corn tortillas

Black beans

Toppings-Always salt and hot sauce or red pepper flakes, black pepper, occasionally cheese, salsa if we have it, onions if we have it, I love sour cream on it but I'm too cheap to get it.

Note on the tortillas: We get the small corn tortillas in the big package. I think ours has like a hundred or so. I have no idea but it's a lot. We divide it into dinner portions, wrap them in plastic wrap, and freeze them. We know that if we are hungry, we will eat three small tortillas each. We create packages of six and stack them in the freezer. To unthaw I just put them on the counter about an hour before we're going to eat. Or, if I'm not going to be home, we just put them in the fridge the night before.

And before cooking cooking the veggies, put them in a colander and run hot water over them. This cuts down the cooking time by quite a bit.