What do to for lunch with left over ground beef!
 

Today I had taco salad, some im trying to think of a low calorie option for tomorrow....

any ideas? maybe I just have taco salad again....

You could make some chili.

Or buy some of the 50 cal high fiber tortillas, add some black beans for even more fiber/protein punch, stuff with lettuce and ff sour cream and make burritos.

soup? stir fry? turn it into pasta topping?

You could add it to some brown rice and tomato juice - kind of like a goulash without the noodles.

thanks for all the ideas!

i think ill do like a pasta top, with few noodles and lots of veggies :)

I often make ground beef ahead, and season it sort of generically so I can use it in all sorts of recipes. Mostly I make up my own, but I've found alot of recipes online just by googling "ground beef recipes".

I make it lower fat by using 85 - 95% fat beef and mix it with tvp (healthfood store bulk food - soy proten granules that sort of look like grape nuts cereal). Basically you add 3/4 cup hot liquid to 1 cup dry granules and this is roughly equivalent to 1 lb of ground beef, but about 1/5 the calories of beef". I add this to 1 lb of ground beef (when I first started doing this, I'd add 2 lbs of meat to the same amount. I kept adding more and more tvp each time I made it, and about 50/50 is about the proportion I like best).

Anyway, I brown the ground beef with onion (and sometimes also celery and green pepper). And add the cup of tvp and about 3/4 cup of water and a beef bouillon cube and some garlic and parsley.

After I brown it all. I put it in a big freezer bag and every 15 - 20 minutes or so, I squish the bag around to keep it from freezing solid. Once it's frozen, I can pour out just the amount I need for any recipe. Spaghetti, tacos, sloppy joes, chili, "hamburger helper" type casseroles......