For those coming over from the Costco Meal Plan #2 post, welcome! To make this recipe for 2 meals, use 2 lbs of the ground beef and 1- 15 oz can of diced tomatoes. Adjust onion and spices according to taste!

There’s a reason I don’t blog recipes on the weekend. It’s my “time off” from blogging. BUT, I don’t take time off from cooking! Well, I do. Sorta.

We typically have spaghetti or tacos on the weekend, along with leftovers or sandwiches. In order to spend as little time in the kitchen on the weekend as possible, I like to “batch cook” my spaghetti sauce and taco meat. Ideally, I do this on the same day as my shopping trip, while I’m doing other meal prep that afternoon.

Then when Saturday afternoon rolls around and I’m not “feeling” up to cooking, I’ve already got taco meat ready and taco shells in the stockpile.

Dinner’s ready in a matter of minutes!

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Freezer Friendly Taco Meat

When you batch cook/brown and put into the freezer, dinner can be ready in a matter of minutes!

Prep Time5 minutes

Cook Time20 minutes

Servings - 12 servings

Ingredients 

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• 3 lb. ground beef
• 3 Tbsp minced onion
• 6 oz. can tomato sauce
• 1 small green bell pepper seeded and finely chopped
• 2 Tbsp chili powder
• 2 Tbsp ground cumin
• 2 Tbsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp salt
• pepper, to taste
• 4 oz. can green chilies optional spice

Instructions

• Brown the ground chuck with the chopped onion. Drain and rinse. Return to sauce pan.
• Add the tomato sauce and spices to the ground beef and let simmer over low heat for 10 minutes.
• Let cool and then divide into 3 meal size portions and place in freezer friendly containers. Freeze up to 6 months in fridge freezer, or 12 months in deep freezer.