Tip Tuesday: Can’t Afford Super Lean Ground Beef? Here’s A Tip I Use Often!

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Posted by on February 21, 2012

 

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93% Ground Beef can be pretty expensive ranging from $4.00/lb and up, so how can we have lean ground beef without paying that pretty price tag? This week at Save Mart, TODAY ONLY, or ever Tuesday until March 27th, you can buy 80/20 Ground Beef for just $1.69/lb (limit 2 packages).

Whenever I am making taco meat, spaghetti sauce, or whatever it may be I cook the ground beef in a skillet and I do not add seasonings. Once the ground beef is cooked I grain the meat in a colander and rinse the meat off with water. This helps get rid of a lot of the fat left on the meat making it more lean. I love this trick, especially for recipes like this because then I just add the meat back to the skillet, which I wipe clean and season my meat like normal.

Is this a tip you use often?

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3 Responses to “Tip Tuesday: Can’t Afford Super Lean Ground Beef? Here’s A Tip I Use Often!”
  1. Janene High says:
    February 21, 2012 at 8:25 am

    It is a good tip for everyone else in my house but I have a serious issue with biting into hard pieces of fat. If I bite into a piece of fat like this the whole meal is ruined for me. It is a serious problem but I really get grossed out when this happens. Don’t know why. But because of this I always buy the 96/4 meat. Do you have any tips for the chunks of hard pieces in the cheaper meat?

    • Aimee says:
      February 21, 2012 at 3:03 pm

      I have never noticed hard pieces in my ground beef or turkey. I’m washing out all the fat on the surface of the meat, and generally the fat cooks out of the meat in the skillet. I’m not sure… maybe it’s the brand?

  2. Andi S says:
    February 21, 2012 at 10:20 pm

    We hardly ever buy ground beef buy when we buy the ground turkey and get the less lean packs I usually drain it off. I never thought about rinsing it though. My husband likes to use the colander to drain it so it would probably work well for him. I just drain off as much as I can from the pan without emptying the meat out. I hate having to do more dishes than I need to.