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Eva Longoria has eaten the same breakfast every day since childhood—and if she’s busy, she’s taking that breakfast taco to go. As a self-proclaimed espresso lover, Eva takes Delish through her daily meals, from her 4-shot Starbucks latte to treating her alcohol as dessert. Watch as the Flamin’ Hot Margarita creator shares why she meal preps to avoid getting hangry and why, for her, every day is Taco Tuesday.

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00:00Dips the fries in the Frosty.
00:03It is a must.
00:04You must dip the fries in a Frosty.
00:07Hi Delish, I'm Eva Longoria,
00:09and this is what's on my plate.
00:13First thing I do when I wake up
00:14is I take my water with all of these supplements
00:18before I work out.
00:19Like it's literally water with a bunch of stuff in it.
00:23Then I have coffee after my workout,
00:25and I make breakfast.
00:28I am an espresso girl.
00:30I usually drink a cortado.
00:32I think it's called macchiato,
00:33which is espresso with a stain of milk.
00:36I like sometimes a little French Vanilla Coffee Mate
00:40as my stain of milk,
00:42but I like my coffee strong,
00:44so it's usually a couple of cortados.
00:47If I'm out and I order my Starbucks,
00:49it's usually like a four-shot latte,
00:52which basically just is like a really big cortado
00:54because it's mostly espresso more than milk.
00:58My Starbucks order also is like four-shot tall latte,
01:01so I hate when they're like,
01:02oh, you want a grande?
01:03I'm like, no, no, no,
01:03I want a small cup with a lot of shots,
01:06and I'll get like one pump.
01:08You know, normally you put three,
01:09and it is so sweet.
01:10I'm like, who can drink three pumps of that sugary stuff?
01:14It's too much.
01:15I'm a regular milk kind of girl.
01:17I'm not oat, soy, coconut, blah, blah, blah.
01:21I like a cow's milk.
01:22Yeah.
01:24I love raw milk,
01:26and when I can find it at the farmer's market,
01:28it's the best thing.
01:29The only thing is it goes bad really fast,
01:30and I can't even drink it fast enough,
01:32but raw milk in my coffee is the best,
01:35the best, the best, the best.
01:36Taste and the best for your body.
01:40I really eat the same thing for breakfast every day
01:45since I was a child, which is breakfast tacos.
01:48So I will make fresh flour tortillas.
01:52My son will not wake up
01:53without the smell of fresh flour tortillas.
01:56The one I eat is egg whites and potatoes.
01:59The one my son eats is scrambled eggs and potatoes.
02:01Sometimes I'll put chorizo or soyrizo in my eggs.
02:05So I'll make my breakfast taco with papa con huevo,
02:08is what we call it, potato and egg,
02:09and a side of beans.
02:11And so you slop up the beans with the flour tortilla.
02:14I never do takeout for breakfast.
02:17I will make my breakfast taco and wrap it up
02:20and go in the car and eat my breakfast taco.
02:22If I'm really in a rush, I will make my tortilla with beans.
02:25But like, there's no world I'm ever in a rush
02:27and can't make flour tortillas.
02:29Like, there's just no world.
02:31After breakfast, I am hungry about a couple hours later.
02:34I eat a lot during the day.
02:36So I usually try to do a Greek yogurt parfait of some sort,
02:39like Greek yogurt, another protein powder of some sort,
02:44granola, and some berries.
02:46That will keep me full usually till lunch.
02:51I love lunch.
02:52I'm a soup girl and I'm a hot meal girl.
02:55I need hot meals.
02:56At lunch, I hate, like, have a sandwich and a salad.
02:59I'm like, where's the hot stuff?
03:00It needs to be a hot meal.
03:03Unless it's like a Cuban sandwich, which is hot,
03:06or a Philly steak sandwich, which is hot,
03:08but like a cold club.
03:11I hate when people order that.
03:12You're like, can I have a club sandwich and fries?
03:14I'm like, mm-mm.
03:16So I love a soup, but I like hearty soups.
03:19I will make like an albondiga soup.
03:22I'll make a chicken soup and I'll just pack that to go
03:26and I'll have one of my soups.
03:27If it's not soup, I usually do a meat bowl.
03:29I like for it to be like a protein bowl.
03:31So I add meat, I add beans,
03:33and then I add avocado, salsa, cheese.
03:37If I have mushrooms, I'll saute some mushrooms,
03:38throw that in there.
03:39If I have squash, I'll saute that and throw that in there.
03:42If I have spinach, kale, whatever is in my fridge,
03:45I usually throw it into my meat bowl.
03:46And Siete, they have these amazing seasoning packets.
03:50So they have fajita seasoning, beef seasoning,
03:52lemon pepper seasoning, and I'll add that
03:54into my ground beef, or I'll do ground chicken,
03:56I'll do ground turkey.
03:57I try to mix it up, but I love a beef bowl.
04:00I'm a consistent workout person,
04:02so I'm always trying to sneak protein
04:03into every meal, every snack.
04:05So sometimes if my mid-morning snack
04:08is not a Greek yogurt parfait,
04:09it'll be four turkey sausage links.
04:12And I'll make that at home and I'll take it with me.
04:14You know what I like sometimes, are the beef sticks.
04:17So it's the new Slim Jim, but it's a beef stick.
04:20So it's like all beef, no weird shit in it.
04:23And it's like super packed with protein.
04:25I also like Quest chips.
04:27They're super high in protein and really good flavors.
04:33Oh my God, I am such a hangry person.
04:36That's why I prep all my meals.
04:38I always have a Tupperware in my purse.
04:40I'm like, I'm not gonna lie,
04:42in my purse.
04:43I'm like, I'm not gonna get hungry, so I don't get hangry.
04:46I know I'm getting hangry because I'll usually get a headache
04:49and like it physically makes me feel ill.
04:53I feel also sleepy.
04:55Like I'm like, no energy.
04:56And the minute I eat and I'm like, I'm back.
05:01I love cooking dinner.
05:03Like I think about it all week and I plan out menus
05:05and I'm like, it's probably my favorite time of day.
05:08I'm gonna bake some bread from scratch.
05:11I'm gonna make pasta from scratch.
05:12I'm gonna simmer this short rib for 24 hours
05:16so I can put it in my ragu.
05:18Tacos is the most requested dinner.
05:21I'm like, I made this bolognese.
05:22My husband's like, can we put it in a taco?
05:24We don't have taco Tuesday.
05:25We have like taco Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
05:27One night we'll do fish tacos.
05:28Another night we'll do shrimp tacos.
05:30Another night we do beef and chicken tacos.
05:32Another night we'll do a tostada night.
05:34So we'll do portabella mushroom tostadas.
05:37We'll do tostadas de atun, which is sushi grade tuna.
05:40And then when it comes to cocktails, what do we have?
05:42Oh my God, we're having tequila.
05:45And tequila goes with everything
05:46because obviously you can do a margarita and a paloma
05:49but I'll usually make an espresso martini with tequila
05:52or I will make a Mexican mule with tequila,
05:55an Aperol spritz with tequila.
05:58I think tequila is a really good spirit too.
06:00Also cleanse the palate, get your stomach ready.
06:02It's a great aperitif.
06:04I have a flaming hot margarita
06:06that mixes crushed flaming hot Cheetos as your rim.
06:10And it gives it this savory punch to your sweet margarita.
06:17If we order takeout for dinner,
06:18it's from a really nice place.
06:20It'll be Sushi, Mr. Chow, Spago's or Avra for a fresh fish.
06:26We're not ordering burgers or pizza normally.
06:29You'll catch me in Wendy's sometimes.
06:31I worked there in my high school years
06:32so I do have a fondness for a square patty.
06:35A single with cheese, everything on it.
06:37Mayonnaise, mustard and ketchup.
06:39A baked potato, sour cream and chives,
06:41extra sour cream and chives.
06:43And a Frosty.
06:45Are you one of those people that dips the fries?
06:46Dips the fries in the Frosty.
06:49It is a must.
06:50You must dip the fries in Frosty.
06:56My dessert is usually the alcohol that I drink.
07:00But no, at night I will drink a cup of magnesium tea
07:03when I go to bed.
07:05And that's all that's on my plate.
07:06Be sure to check out my new cookbook,
07:08My Mexican Kitchen, out now anywhere you buy books.
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