What to do with 10 lb. of Ground Beef

We bought a 10 lb. chub of ground beef at WinCo this week, and we're turned it into 15 dinners for 5. The meat for every meal is s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d but results are delicious and the freezer is ready for long stretches of work nights when I'm too tired to cook!

Here's how:

5 meals:

About 3 lb. of beef were cooked down with onion, garlic, bell peppers. I added taco seasoning, about a half pound of cooked lentils, and a package of frozen corn and pepper medley. I packaged to make into tacos, chili, or stuffed peppers later.

4 meals:

Italian style Meatloaf with zucchini. I used the recipe from a cookbook I nabbed from my mom years ago, "Great Dinners with Less Meat." Every meal uses 1 lb of meat or less, and has serving suggestions for tasty, well rounded meals. This is one of my favorites from the cookbook and made good use of the remaining frozen, shredded zucchini. I use oatmeal instead of breadcrumbs to bind. The mix was frozen flat in gallon sized Ziploc bags, and will be baked once thawed.

6 meals

The last 4 lb. used basically the same mixture, substituting lentils for zucchini. I rolled them into balls and baked them in muffin tins, a trick I learned from Alton Brown. Fully cooked meatballs make for super fast dinners!

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What are your favorite ways to stretch meat in meals?