Day 8: Taco Chicken Bowls

Today's (or yesterday's I suppose) unprocessed recipe is brought to you by budget bytes, as suggested by my pal Kathy. She makes this for her kids and they really love it.

http://www.budgetbytes.com/2011/07/taco-chicken-bowls/

Because this is presented as a cost saving recipe on the web site, I thought I'd do a quick price comparison when doing this naturally.

Major differences:
- I paid $5.79 for 1 lb of chicken, because it was not on sale. (They paid $2.90 for 1.5 lb)
- The cheapest unprocessed cheddar I could find was extra sharp white cheddar for $6.99, as opposed to the $2.49 for whatever cheese they used. Quite the difference.
- Paid $1.79 for [flavorless] 1 lb frozen corn, as opposed to their $0.57 for 0.5 lb, and I used it all because I only had 1 lb chicken instead of 1.5. 
- You might be able to find unprocessed salsa in a grocery store, but I could not. Even the ones that claimed to be unprocessed had cane sugar in them, which seemed to be against the spirit of October Unprocessed. So I improvised by replacing it with sweet peppers, jalapenos, and tomato paste I had on hand and added water.

So, basically, I paid more then their whole recipe for the 2 most expensive items, and my recipe included a third less meat. Moral of the story: BUY CHICKEN ON SALE!!

I followed the recipe pretty much as stated in the link above, and I set up my crock pot on a Christmas light timer to cook for 8 hours while I was at work.

I have to say this stuff was pretty good, but I would imagine that it would be WAY tastier with actual salsa. Any suggestions for things to jazz it up in the absence of salsa?

On deck: pumpkin pie, and a discussion about peer pressure to eat processed and not particularly delicious cake in social settings.