Making the most of a special for ground beef

Meat prices have continued to increase. Ground beef used to be inexpensive, but now it is on a par with steak. Recently, I picked up about 5 lbs as it was on sale, so I went to work to make a few meals. I split the beef into three lots. The first I turned into a meatloaf using some leftover sausage meat, breadcrumbs, egg, ketchup, and seasonings. I formed it and put it into a tinfoil container, popped on a lid, and put it into the freezer. Using the same base of beef, tomato paste, canned tomatoes, onion powder, garlic powder, and seasonings, I made two separate pans. The first pan I added a jar of bolognese sauce and Italian herbs. I layered this with lasagne sheets, frozen spinach, broccoli, and zucchini, and a jar of cheese sauce. I topped it with cheese and baked it. To the second pan, I added tinned chilli beans and sauce, a taco powder mix, and BBQ sauce. When the lasagne cooled, I sliced it up and bagged it with baking paper between the slices to make it easy to take out a portion for later reheating and froze it. I had a portion of the chilli for dinner with corn chips, a fresh salad, avocado, and sour cream. The rest I portioned into two more meals and froze.

The meatloaf will be one main with mash and veg and then leftover slices for sandwiches.

The chilli will be 2 more main meals with salad, corn chips etc or in wraps.

The lasagne will be 3 main meals.

So, from my 5 lbs of ground beef I made 7 meals.