These are the dregs from the tortilla chips bag that has been sitting, not very well-sealed, in my snack cabinet for a while. I don’t know why, but we never do very well with eating the last tortilla chips. We plow through 95% of them and then the last 5% just sit. I’ve been thinking that I should just give up and put them in a food waste photo(because I knew they weren’t exactly crisp anymore), but I’ve been putting it off.
When I was cooking dinner yesterday, and the kids and I were very hungry. There wasn’t much in the way of ready-to-eat food in the house, and so we ate the tortilla chips. My children, who have pretty undiscriminating palates, didn’t mind the slight chewiness of the chips, and I was so hungry that I didn’t really care either.
So, I was thinking that maybe my problem with eating leftovers is just that I have too many choices. I obviously am not above eating less-than-wonderful food if it’s the only thing available. And maybe that’s why Laura(of Little House fame) and her family could stand to eat cold jack-rabbit stew for breakfast. If you’re truly famished and you don’t have any other options, I suppose that could start to look pretty appetizing.
I don’t know yet if this revelation/reminder is going to affect my attitude about leftovers yet, because I have been in a fabulous no-leftovers-state for the last two days. As a result, I’ve gotten to have a bread and yogurt lunch two days in a row with not even the teeniest smidge of guilt…I have been a happy girl indeed.
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been there…done that!
You can crisp them up in the oven for a few minutes too.
First of all, love your blog! Secondly, there is a mexican casserole using leftover tortilla chips (and small pieces). I got it off the Allrecipes website: It’s called Easy Mexican Casserole. I actually save up the remainders of chips until I have enough to make this!
Some other uses:
- crush to use instead of breadcrumbs in coating
- use in a Mexican casserole
- invent Mexican lasagna and use these in place of the noodles
But mostly the first idea.