Transforming Leftovers- Taco Salad

I get a lot of flack these days after I embraced Pumpkin's exclamation that I liked eating "garbage."  But sometimes I even get lazy and you never know what leftovers will become.  Even in the realm of food, one man's garbage is another's treasure.

Such as what I had for lunch today:

I call it taco salad (and chocolate milk).  It was as tasty as it looks even though the bulk of it came from leftover nachos.  I know, a truly heinous piece of garbage.  After all, the chips get limp only moments after putting them into Tupperware and the whole thing in general is mangled mess.  But I took the nachos home from dinner out (a necessity of skiing) on Saturday, despite dubious looks from R+J.

Fast forward to just hours ago.  After throwing a mini-impromptu dinner party last night, I didn't feel like making an affair out of dining.  So I opened the fridge but found nothing from the same cuisine, very few things already cooked, and eggs.  Well, not entirely helpful.  But the leftover nachos saved me, because with the chips come cheese, olives, and jalapenos.  I put down a base of salad (one of our only convenience foods), topped on some more chips (these are now 4 months old and somehow have retained their crispiness- processed food kind of scares me), put on the nachos, put on some leftover refried beans (with the nacho cheese melted onto it), and topped it with freshly carmalized onions.  You can call it garbage, but I call it delicious!