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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]hear me out - tacos. taco night seems like it should be the ultimate easy dinner but you have to brown the meat, time the shells right in the oven, grate cheese, prep lettuce and tomato, put out sour cream and salsa, fill the shells … I’d rather just do a meatloaf! [/quote]

It's a ton of dishes and bowls and groceries (so unlike most ground beef dishes, it's not cheap).[/quote]

I feel like you are doing tacos differently than we do! We buy one of those taco kits that has the seasoning for the meat and the shells altogether. We brown the meat and then add the water and seasoning and cover, and then using one large cutting board we chop the lettuce and tomatoes on that board. Shred a pile of cheese in another corner of the board. Put out salsa  with a spoon right in the container. Shells take 5 minutes in the oven.

When we serve, people take shells right off the cookie sheet, fill them with meat straight from pan, then get their toppings straight off the cutting board, plus a spoonful of salsa from the jar.

It takes 25 minutes, tops, and the dishes are super minimal -- only one dish that takes any effort to clean and everything else can either go in the dishwasher or is really quick to clean. And inexpensive -- dinner for 4 people for around $12-15, depending on what meat we get.

We do tacos once a week and it's the one meal we can make on autopilot and doesn't even really feel like cooking it's so easy, but super satisfying and filling. I wish most weeknight dinners were as easy as tacos, or that we could do tacos 3 nights a week.[/quote]

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