Budgeting food means
that you stretch your food further than you normally would. Its simple things
like buying in bulk that allows me to budget for our family and to easily meal
prep. Prior to our lifestyle change we were buying bulk ground beef (check out
that post here). Nowadays it’s very rare for us to have ground beef in our home
as we no longer eat it. We’ve switched gears and it’s all for the best! We don’t
really notice the difference, so we’re definitely not missing our ground beef
days. I no longer buy our ground turkey at
Costco as it is a little more expensive than if I buy it at my local Smiths (or
Kroger’s). At Costco a 4 pack of 1lb of turkey averages at $20.00 vs Smith’s 3lbs
of Jennie O’s Ground Lean turkey is $7.99. I can buy 3 packs at Smith’s to
almost equal 1 Costco pack. Granted, I have to do a little work with repackaging
but that’s a steal! Here is a little glimpse of how we stretch our ground
turkey.
DIRECTIONS
- Divide your ground turkey
by eyeballing it into thirds.
- Taking your food scale,
weigh your ground turkey to roughly 1lb each. (Some will weigh more than the others.)
- Once turkey is measured
out to 1lb individually wrap your portions. (I double wrap mine with saran wrap.)
- Place in your freezer laying the portions flat so that they stay flat when frozen.
- Thaw out when ready to
use.
I love prepacking our
meats so that they’re readily available for me during meal prep days or for
dinners. You can easily measure your portions to be 2lbs if you needed. 1lb of
ground turkey fits our family well and I never want to make more food if I don’t
have.
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