Eating tacos is a precarious business. After years of practise, few of us have perfected the fine art of filling a taco and getting it into our mouths without losing half of it to the floor.

To make dinner time that little bit easier (especially for children, who at least have an excuse), Old El Paso has launched new handheld tortilla pockets.

The nifty pocket design provides a perfect cup for filling up with mince, cheese and salad so you never have to worry about dry-cleaning those salsa stains again.

The no-mess Tex Mex pockets are made from wheat flour, as opposed to the traditional corn, with the pack split in two for freshness.

Old El Paso Tortilla Pockets can be bought as part of a kit for $7.50 or as a pack of pockets for $4.75 from Woolworths and Coles supermarkets.