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- I Tried Taco Bell's New Cravings Kits—Here Are My Unfiltered Thoughts
Crunchwrap and chipotle chicken quesadilla lovers, listen up!
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If I were forced to eat at only one fast food chain for the rest of my life, I’d pick Taco Bell in a heartbeat. With a streamlined list of ingredients, Taco Bell manages to make all of their menu items exciting. You can eat a taco, burrito, chalupa, or Mexican pizza without getting bored.
Taco Bell is also the brains behind some of our favorite fast food items, period. Their most iconic offering is indisputably the Crunchwrap. Why choose between a soft flour tortilla or a crispy corn one? With the Crunchwrap you can have both, and then some. Add in the seasoned ground beef (or black beans!), nacho cheese, sour cream, lettuce, and tomato, and you have a virtually perfect bite.
If you’ve ever been tempted to recreate the magic of Taco Bell at home, the chain is partnering with Kraft Heinz to make it possible. Available exclusively in Walmart stores and online nationwide, the Taco Bell at Home Cravings Kits provide some of the chain’s proprietary ingredients to make fan favorite menu items like the Crunchwrap Supreme and the Chipotle Chicken Quesadilla.
If you love Taco Bell as much as I do, you’re probably rushing to pick up the kits for yourself. So I got my hands on the new Cravings Kits to try them at home and report back on my findings.
Both the Crunchwrap Supreme and Chipotle Chicken Quesadilla kits cost $6.98, but the included ingredients are honestly pretty minimal. You need to grab several other fresh ingredients separately in order to put these together. And a major con: they don't include any hot sauce!
The products inside are also easy to find individually. Taco Bell seasoning mix is available in the spice aisle of many major grocery stores. Velveeta cheese sauce is also easily accessible. They even sell bottled versions of their signature creamy chipotle sauce.
The only product that you may not be able to find at your local supermarket would be Crunchwrap-sized tortillas. But even then, there are easy workarounds like using smaller tostadas or even a handful of tortilla chips. And at nearly seven dollars a box, I’m not exactly sure these kits are the best bang for your buck.
After buying an extra $30 worth of groceries and opening the Cravings Kits, I got to work. Putting both the Crunchwrap Supreme and Chipotle Chicken Quesadilla together was super straightforward. They even offer a guide for correctly folding your Crunchwrap.
From start to finish, making both kits took less than 20 minutes total. And my folding skills might not be as good as those of a Taco Bell employee, but I’m going to toot my own horn and say they look pretty good. And they tasted just like the OG.
A lot of people might say that you can swap homemade taco seasoning for Taco Bell’s proprietary spice mix—but I strongly disagree. There’s something about their secret formula that helps the meat form a deliciously rich sauce. Homemade spice blends just can’t compare.
Are they both delicious? Absolutely. Do you need the kit in order to execute these meals at home? No. But if you’re a die-hard Taco Bell lover like me, it’s definitely worth a try anyway. Or at the very least, you can recreate it with our homemade Crunchwrap Supreme recipe.
Gabby Romero
Associate Editor
Expertise: TikTok Trends, Drinks, Pop Culture
Education: B.A. in Journalism and B.S. in Communications from NYU, Culinary Arts degree from The Institute of Culinary Education
About Me: As an associate editor at Delish, Gabby works on everything from features to recipes to content on our social media channels. Before joining the team, she wrote for StarChefs Rising Stars Magazine, Mashed, and Food52. When she’s not developing cocktail recipes, she’s making cocktail-inspired dishes like Dirty Martini Pasta and Aperol Spritz Trifle. Her features cover online trends like the Millennial Shopping Cart, rank everything from hard seltzers to frozen French fries, and answer some of your most pressing food safety questions. You can also find her posting content on Delish’s TikTok, including her about cooking like influencer Nara Smith that garnered over 3M combined views. She loves eating spicy food, collecting cookbooks, and adding a mountain of Parmesan to any dish she can.
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