What's so famous about it? It's just a normal recipe! I would add black olives, chopped sweet onion, 8 oz of sour cream and jalepeno's. Now THAT's a Taco Salad!!

Sounds great to me Michele! Well it's FAMOUS in her house Ken!!

And it will be famous at my place when I make it! Thanks Michelle!!!!

Chili too is a great addition Ken and sausage.

My family loves this salad. I also add a bit of garlic salt, half a package of taco seasoning, a can of rinsed kidney beans, sliced black olives,and a diced avocado. Chopped rotisserie chicken works equally as well as the beef for a change. One can also use Romaine in place of the Iceberg lettuce or a combination of both... a full meal! T.

I make this salad all the time and everyone loves it. Sounds fairly normal but the taste is awesome. I am always asked for the recipe!

This is a good, simple recipe. We also add, a can of drained Ranch Style Beans to the mix. This is a family favorite from way back.

I also add rice to the bottom of the plate to make it a FIESTA salad.

Great recipe! My dad made this before I was born and passed it down, our family loves it! We also add kidney beans and regular catalina and sour cream and taco sauce.

Use Doritos instead of corn chips!! Yummy!

chopped red and green peppers and a jar of salsa makes this a huge salad and there is never any left!

this was so delishious ill use it all the time yahhhh dude wbt (wat bout dat) so yall peps need to try this delicious TACO SALAD RECIPE ITS OFF THE FREAKIN CHANG

Will try this recipe for dinner but instead of tomatoes I believe all I have at home is salsa. My mouth is watering already. Thank you for submitting Michele.

This recipe has been a family favorite for 30 years, and I was glad to see it in print. Our military wives club made it for a church fundraiser back in 1982, while stationed in Boblingen, Germany. We sold bowl after bowl outside the PX to our wonderful troops. They loved it and came back for 2nds & even 3rds. We sold it for $1.00 a bowl. In those days, there were no "regulations" on making food in your own kitchens to sell. Life was beautiful. The Catalina Dressing is one of the essentials; but, we always use the "regular" instead of the "lite" dressing. Also diced sweet onions (Walla Walla if available), and salted Tortilla chips instead of corn chips. Serve in paper-bowls and it's less mess and less carbs.

Try using the Tangy Bacon Catalina dressing and Doritos. It's not as healthy but it really kicks it up a notch. My family loves it.

Our family has made this for years, we add pinto beans, and we also use taco flavored doritos. yum-o

We like to add Refried Beans to the bottom of the Taco Salad, and low fat sour cream on top.

Sounds good but I would add refried beans to coat the bottom of the bowl as well as black olives as many have suggested in comments sections. Thanks for the recipe.