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I have these two things in my fridge constantly, and they are so cheap and easy. You can always find the ingredients, and even if you are here only for a few days or a week, it is nice to have some simple food in your fridge so you don’t have to run out to eat every time.If you go to any chicken, rice, and beans stand – you will often see a jar that has (delicious) onions and jalapeno/peppers chopped up and mixed together, that you can put on top of your food. It is SO good. I put it on everything – for example, if you were just here a few days on vacation but wanted simple snacks in your room, you could put this on eggs, nacho chips, or roll a tortilla and cheese with this (see below). It makes everything taste amazing.

Here is the best way I’ve found to make it:

Cut up the veggies to the size you like, and throw them in a saucepan with the liquids – bring to a boil, then lower heat for several minutes until the onions are a bit soft. Add sweetener to taste when it cools down, then put in a jar or container and put in the fridge. It lasts over a week. You can find habeneros at farmer’s market stands.

Coarsely chop and throw all this in a blender. That’s my favorite and most easy way to make this, but you can also chop it all up if you don’t have a blender.

FYI These are my favorite chips you can buy here…..

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So with these two recipes, you can throw together so much easy, cheap, and fun food – get some tortilla chips, eggs, cheese, tortillas, (maybe some butter and Marie Sharps hot sauce!) and the ingredients above, and this is going to make you very happy – and you can always find these ingredients here. Here are a few of these ingredients that I just pulled from my fridge –

And here are some amazing combinations with those ingredients:

Eggs+cheese+salsa+onions
Same and above but put in a tortilla
Same as first line but put over tortilla chips
Tortilla+cheese+salsa for dipping (saute in butter or just put in the microwave)
Chips+cheese+salsa