Chicken, Bacon & Ranch Flautas

I'd be lying if I told you I had this perfectly good, dreamed about, planned blog post for these flautas.  Wrong.  They simply came out of necessity to feed the kids in a nano-second with what I had on hand.

Which was: flour tortillas, leftover shredded chicken, salsa, crumbled bacon, ranch dressing and cheese.  I threw it all together with the hopes that someone in our house deemed it edible and I could move on from serving lunch to thinking about dinner.

{Side note: do all other moms out there constantly have "the next meal" floating around in their brains?  As soon as one meal is finished, another one has to be prepared.}

Guess what?  For no planning and less than stellar expectations, these turned out really, really good.  We dipped them in my homemade ranch dressing and called it good.

Sometimes you just have make simple, easy, non-frilly lunches and move on with your day, you know?  Trust me, the kids won't know the difference.  Nor care.

Chicken, Bacon & Ranch Flautas

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8 flour tortillas

2 c. cooked, shredded chicken

1/2 c. salsa

2 strips, crumbled cooked bacon

1 c. shredded cheddar cheese

1/2 c. ranch dressing

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.  In a bowl combine chicken, salsa, bacon, cheese and ranch dressing.  Lay out tortillas and spread two spoonfuls of chicken mixture down the tortilla and roll up.  Place on a baking sheet, seam side down.

Bake for 15 minutes or until crispy and golden brown.

If tortillas start to unroll, place another baking sheet on top of them to weigh it down.

So I got a call from daycare today saying the Little Miss was running a fever and not acting herself....so her and I have to stay home tomorrow as the husband is gone all week for work.  I will need to entertain her and try and get some work done.  Ha!

It's at times like these where I wish we lived closer to family {our closest, are 1.5 hrs away}, so we never have the option to just pick up the phone and call our parents, siblings, etc. for help with the kids when we need it.  It just isn't an option.

So, here's to sick kids and thrown together meals!