Spread The Beef...

A beefy size money saving cooking tip. This week is a tip how to spread your food dollar.  Every state is different but hopefully there are enough similarities that anyone any where can benefit from this money saving tip.

The below hamburger press was a bonus item included in a purchase I made many years ago. There are, what I would consider, safer and newer versions that are not plastic. I highly recommend investing in one of those. I do plan on upgrading my plastic version in the future but it is also the reason I line it with plastic wrap but not the main reason. The main reason I lined the hamburger press with plastic wrap is a illustration of one of a money saving tip; the main reason for the article.

Stretching a pound of hamburger for various meals. I live in the state of New Hampshire. I purchase a economical store brand pound of hamburger at Walmart. I was able to make four single servings hamburger, wrap them in the plastic used to line the press and store them in individual sandwich bags for freezing and cooking on a later date.

By doing this you can stretch the pound into as many as four meals depending on the family size and servings but in general. three to four meal serving size can modestly be done. I was able to make three to four hamburger patties, enough chili with beans and hamburger to feed three and another meal; spaghetti was made using the last portion of hamburger. By creating meals where the hamburger is broken up into small sectional pieces of random sizes for meals like chili and spaghetti it stretch the meat even further.

Happy savings!

line hamburger press with plastic wrap

Ready for a ziplock and freezer

Make single serving hamburger patties and wrap up