What will 33 Pounds of Ground Beef make you?

[too-old-now]

I can't resist, from the title of the thread -


Q: What will 33 Pounds of Ground Beef make you?

A. Fat and happy.

[Nicole]

WOW .99cents a pound? I don't think it's been that cheap since I was a kid! I love having a full freezer... in some weird way it's a security blanket for me. I guess because my parents always did it when I was a kid. A large stand alone freezer is such a great investment. I stock pile, margarine, meat, veggies, milk (when it's under $4 a gallon soon it will be cheaper to buy my own cow), bread, and snacks from Mrs. Bairds thrift store. Pecans picked up out of the yard shelled and in freezer bags, Ice, and quick and easy meals for those running late nights!

[JANE4girls]

that is great, my taquitos from a few months back are almost gone and I have room for a great deal like that!

[pedspeech]

Originally Posted by darkwing932 I was wondering the same thing. Not to threadjack but I was also wondering if you could make up manwich and freeze that?

I don't know about Manwich, but I have made up meat with spaghetti sauce and frozen it for quick Italian meals. I would imagine it is about the same.

[hotcouponmama]

LMAO at Too-Old-Now!!!

Ok, here's the deal on keeping your taco meat as fresh as when you made it...

Brown the ground beef - no spices - until it's cooked and then drain all the fat you can from it. I'll use paper towels even to sop up what I can't drain.

Then, get your seasoning packets (however much you use to your flavor profile preference). For a 5# batch, I use 2 pkts. and it's important to add the water.

Then, I take a liquid marinade like the chipotle flavored (lawrys or whoever) and I stir in about 1/3 of the bottle.

The extra liquid between the water for the seasoning, and the marinade keeps it from drying out. So when you heat it, it comes right back.

As to freezing it, I've done it both in containers and in baggies. If I do it in baggies, I let it thaw first then pour in a bowl, cover with saran wrap so it steams, and then heat that way. In the ziploc -type containers, I just heat directly in the containers.

And the meat wasn't on a regular sale. This was end of the night case stuff that needed to go. We have that meat thread around her somewhere that talks about how to score big on meat - that's how I picked this up.

[hotcouponmama]

I would say yes to the manwich as well and freezing it. Not my favorite, but I do BBQ pork ahead and freeze it. I am all about convenience meals that are homemade. And we have 3 BBQs so I do love to grill at home!

[MariaT]

Originally Posted by hotcouponmama And the meat wasn't on a regular sale. This was end of the night case stuff that needed to go. We have that meat thread around her somewhere that talks about how to score big on meat - that's how I picked this up.

I've tried scoping this out. The only time I've seen meat reduced around here is on a regular sale. It's horrible. I hope they don't just throw out all that meat.

[hotcouponmama]

You need to ask Maria. At the end of the night, you go in and ask the meat counter guy...."Hey, if I buy X amount of that right now, and I take it all in one package so you don't have to waste a bunch of time packing it into small packages, how much will you charge me for it?"

The meat guy is union in most stores, so he is making good money to stand there, but if the store can get him wrapped up and sent home a bit earlier, they are happy, and the meat guy is likely happy too (I did the meat and deli departments in college - I didn't care about a paycheck at the end of the night).

So it's win-win for them to turn it to one person in one shot at a discounted price.

[hotcouponmama]

When our stores have left over meat, they donate what was marked down that day and didn't sell to the area foodbank who has a facility to process it further and re-pack and portion. Then they freeze it, and farm it out to smaller localized foodbanks. It's a pretty good system.

[bugface711]

This one needs a bump too!

I just got 35lbs of ground beef. 20lbs of it was made into 1/4lbers so 80 burgers. I am using 8lbs this afternoon to make meatballs. Adding in 4lbs pork and 2 lbs ground turkey for 14lbs total. Will spice them up, bake, flash freeze then bag and freeze!

The other 7lbs I will probably cook at some point like julie said, taco meat and for me chili meat!

Love easy meals and buying/cooking meat in bulk really helps that!