Time-Saving, Money-Saving Meat Mix
- 10 pounds Extra Lean Ground Beef
- 2 whole Large Onions, Chopped
- 2 whole Green Bell Peppers, Chopped
- 8 whole Gallon-sized Ziploc Freezer Bags Or 16 Quart-sized Bags If You Have A Small Family
- If you have 2 large skillets, go ahead and put about 2-1/2 to 3 pounds of meat in each skillet.
- Throw in about 1/3 of the chopped bell peppers and onions (I usually mix these together in a big bowl after I chop them).
- Use a kitchen fork to stir the meat; turn on the burner and start cutting up the meat with your fork, and as it starts to get hot, mash it a little with the fork.
- While it is cooking, you need to keep mixing the peppers and onions in the meat and mashing with your fork.
- You can go from one pan to the other and do two pans at once if you want.
- I find that using a kitchen fork makes it easier to separate the ground meat into smaller pieces.
- The more it cooks, the easier it is to mash into smaller pieces.
- It doesnt take very long to get it done, then salt and pepper to taste.
- Let it cool (I use another very large bowl to pour it into so it can cool while I cook another batch).
- After the meat is pretty cool, use a 4 cup measure (for a gallon bag) or 2 cups (for a quart bag ).
- I put the date on the bag and open the bag and stand it in a container so I can put the meat into it using both hands.
- Zip the bag closed and lay it flat, smoothing it out so it is even, and freeze flat.
- After it is frozen, you can stack to suit your freezer.
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Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/time-saving-money-saving-meat-mix/ (may not work)