What is WIC?

WIC stands for Women, Infants, Children. It is a government nutrition program that babies, children, and pregnant or breastfeeding women may qualify for based on income. Through WIC, participants have available to them a wide variety of nutritious foods completely free!

Why Blog?

If you are anything like me, WIC foods just left me confused and bored. Seven hundred peanut butter sandwiches later, I decided to put my noggin to work to try and come up with a solution for the four pounds of corn tortillas laying to waste in my refrigerator. I figured I can't be the only one with this problem, so I decided to blog about it! Most of these recipes will include SOME non-WIC foods, but anything that you can typically get for free with WIC will have an asterisk (*) by it. If anyone has any ideas they would like me to post, please send them to me via the comment form on the individual blog entry pages!

Remember...

Legally, you can only EAT your WIC foods or THROW THEM AWAY. Legally, you cannot DONATE them to a local shelter or pregnancy care clinic, SHARE them with a friend, or MAKE ART projects out of them....

Friday, April 9, 2010

Vegetarian Mexican Lasagna!!

I made this for dinner tonight. Totally winged it as we had a whole boatload of beans to use!! My husband ate it, and that says a lot, as he is a super picky eater! It was delicious, if I may say so myself!

Ingredients:
Corn Tortillas* (6 for a smaller dish, 12 for a large one)
Pinto beans* (prepared according to directions on previous post) i imagine it would also work well with black beans
1/2 Red Bell Pepper*
1/2 Green Bell Pepper*
6-10 bulbs of Green Onions*
3-5 diced tomatoes* (to save time, you can use canned, but it wont be available on WIC)
1 bag of frozen corn*
1 can of green chiles
1 can of enchilada sauce
1 lb of colby jack cheese* grated

1. dice bell pepper, onions, and tomatoes. put into a large bowl with corn and chiles and mix with a large spatula, folding in so that veggies are fairly evenly distributed among the mixture
2. cut tortillas into wide strips (I cut mine into thirds)
3. begin layering your "lasagna" - i started with beans because they are nice and sticky and stay where you put them. from there i built it in this order: tortilla strips, veggies, cheese, enchilada sauce, tortilla strips, beans, cheese
4. cook at 350F for 40-50 minutes

Easy, delicious, and quite economical ;)

Since i only made a half-recipe, i only used about half of my veggies, which means...SOUP day!!! My friends <3 my soup :) my husband, not so much, but he's picky, like i said :) I always make a big batch and give some away!

1 comment:

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