Good morning and welcome to a long overdue update to Summer’s Grocery Adventures!

It’s been literal years since I’ve added to this post category. Back in 2018 was my last post, when I was a new college graduate and thought taking my lunch was the most “adult” thing I had going on at the time with my first full-time job.

Lately, I’ve been craving some meals that are easy, healthy and delicious to make at home. We’ve been eating out a lot and I do have some stuff to fix at home, but I wanted something new. This week, I thought about the salad I love getting at Chili’s. It’s the Chipotle Fresh Mex Bowl if you’re interested in trying this yourself (in restaurant or at home)!

With that in mind, I went to the store and found the ingredients. My favorite Target location let me down a little by saying they had Pico de Gallo on the app when I couldn’t find the one without pineapple in store. I wanted regular. Then, in a horrible turn of events, I let myself down by forgetting regular lettuce.

All things considered, I ended up finding the important things and made do with it.

If you follow the link above, it’s going to provide the ingredients that Chili’s uses for this salad, but here’s what I ended up with:

• Spanish style rice (I’ve since tried this a second time with Lemon Basil rice and tastes amazing)
• Grilled fajita chicken
• Fresh spinach
• Chunky corn and black bean salsa
• Chipotle ranch
• Southwest tortilla strips
• Shredded mixed cheese

Maybe it doesn’t sound good with like the chipotle ranch and salsa together… but it does. It’s no doubt my new favorite meal. It provides the salad I crave, but also the protein I need, plus it tastes amazing.

I’m telling everyone about it, so thought I might as well share it here!!

Thanks for checking out my latest grocery adventure and if you happen to try this salad out at home, come back here and let ya girl know how it goes!!

(the photo as the cover was AI generated which I thought was cool and really close to the real thing!)