Selecting meat....
Generally the leanest meat is chicken or fish. I don't cook with much fish because I cant afford it.
What do you do when you get sick of chicken. Go for the lean ground beef and ground turkey.
BUY IT ON SALE. I wait until the 93% lean ground beef goes on sale and buy them out!
I come home and cook 2/3 of it(strain and rinse):
1/3 of it into taco meat and store it in meal size portions in the freezer.
1/3 into plain, cooked ground beef in 1 lb portions and store it in the freezer.
the rest of it I store raw in 1 lb portions in the freezer.
93% lean Ground Turkey:
This is what I buy when I can't find the ground beef on sale (Wal-mart). It is generally under $2 a pound but it comes in those nasty plastic things. I usually come home and store in the same way I do the ground beef. In the pic above I found it at Sam's Club....YIPPEE!
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The straining and rinsing is key to cutting down fat. You can also buy the cheaper stuff and strain and rinse and end up with pretty lean meat as well, thus you save money!
This is a cool chart:
http://healthy.hillbillyhousewife.com/groundbeef.htm#lessfat
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