I need Ground Beef Meal Ideas...Dairy Free please!

[Shelsi]

I've got loads and loads of ground beef in my freezer and I really need some new ideas. I've been searching around but just haven't found anything very interested. We are sooooo sick of hamburgers & tacos!

I think the biggest issue for us with ground beef is it also being dairy free. It seems like everything uses "cream of" something or has loads of cheese in it.

We have other allergens but I can substitute and work around them pretty easily most of the time.

[blissful_maia]

Spaghetti sauce, meatballs or meatloaf, shepherd's pie, sloppy joes, goulash.

[EKSmith]

I second meatballs! I like to make up a whole bunch - season them differently and shape them in different sizes - then bake them, freeze them and bag them for later. They are great to have on hand!

[organicmidwestmama]

cottage pie, just sub evoo for butter when sauteing the veggies and obviously dont top w/cheese, just mashed potatoes (make the mashed potatoes with schmaltz and a milk alternative or broth).

[Magelet]

for the cottage pie (or other meat and potatos dinners) I've heard using miso makes great cheesy tasting dairy free potatos. just miso (specifically garbanzo bean miso, don't know about others), water and potatos, and salt and pepper. I want to try it, because I can't have meat and dairy together.

What about meat patties in other ways besides hamburgers? with new spiceing, sausage patty style? or for breakfast?

meatloaf. meatballs in soup. definitely meat patties, they have infinite variation. good pan-cooked.

[Carley]

I love ground beef. It's so CHEAP & versitile! I'm subbing for more ideas too!

Believe it or not, my family loves "hamburger helper." I brown the beef, rinse it & then sautee whatever veggies I have, combine the two & add tomato sauce or canned tomatos, boullion or stock and seasonings (italian or taco). Then I stir in my box of remaining broken lasagne noodles & simmer until soft. It takes a while, but I imagine it'd take even less time with oven ready noodles.

We also love browned rinsed hamburger, veggies & rice all fried together with ketsup & hot sauce. All goodness.

I second meatballs (LOVE anything I can freeze!) and meatloaf (I always make at least 1 for the freezer when I make it... mmmm : ). We do all sorts of variations on sloppy joes, too. Yummm!

We eat a lot of hamburgers tacos too, and taco salad, beef burritos, chimichungas, taquitos (we eat a lot of tortillas, beans & rice )

We like chile, occasionally pasta bolognese (deeelicious & elegant), stuffed peppers/squash... I am sooo hungry!

[Chinese Pistache]

Shelsi, I'm glad you started this thread. I'm in the same boat. I'm really tired of meatballs, meatloaf, tacos, burritos, chili and hamburgers. The only thing that sounds remotely good is stuffed, baked peppers, but my kids won't eat them. Good luck. I'm going to google for something to make for dinner tomorrow night. I'll post if I find anything interesting.

[Drummer's Wife]

I was gonna say sloppy joes since it's what I made for dinner tonight. I need some more exciting ground beef recipes, too. I need to pay more attention to Rachel Ray, she seems to cook with it a lot.

[tinyblackdot]

stuffed bellpeppers! YUM!

Tacos, meatloaf, (you can freeze meatloaf aswell!, i make small frozen dinners out of them).

[Carley]

http://allrecipes.com/Search/Recipes...ion=Descending

*slobbers*

hey... when I was vegan (/irony) I substituted condensed broth (boullion made with less water) & made whatever it was with a "brown" gravy, instead of a cream. I bet you could do the same with any "cream of"

[Sharlla]

Meat loaf?

[Justmee]

Meatloaf
Shepherd's Pie
Spagetti Bolonaise
Meatballs
Meat Knish / Meat Pie (meat with flaky dough).
Yum, now I'm getting hungry!

[crunchy_mama]

Originally Posted by Drummer's Wife

I was gonna say sloppy joes since it's what I made for dinner tonight. I need some more exciting ground beef recipes, too. I need to pay more attention to Rachel Ray, she seems to cook with it a lot.

We had sloopy joes Saturday night. I did a homemade sauce- tomato sauce, w a bit of mustard, worchestire, bar-b-que- a couple of Ts(from my favorite local place), dash of hot sauce- I don't remember what all I looked at several recipes and quite of put one together myself. We are gf as well so I just serve it over homemade french fries. I like raw slaw with it as well but forgot to put it out.

I do cottage pie a lot as well. Palm shortening or coconut oil makes the best butter sub as it has similiar properties and taste- I use that with homemade stock and a thickener then top w/ mashed potatoes- using the coconut oil there as well w/ some stock.

[UUMom]

Sauteed hambuger is good in minestrone soup. By now, too, someone must have mentioned chili. Taco salad? Bearitos Blue or Black bean Corn chips are great for this. Do everything but the cheese...salsa., avo, lettuce, tomatoes etc. Stuffed cabbage rolls? Pot Stickers...dumplings?

[lyterae]

Subbing, I'm in the same boat.

[mistymama]

Meatballs with different sauces are some of our fave meals - I love doing a sweet and sour sauce, dh really likes a brown gravy sauce - you can experiment will all kinds of sauces, veggies, etc. I usually serve ours over brown rice or whole wheat noodles.

Mini meatloves are really fun -

How about taco salad with a little ground beef on top? I love a good salad with spinach, cucumber, tomato, avacado, black beans & seasoned ground beef. Mmmmm..

[organicmidwestmama]

also cabbage rolls are delicious and dairy free.

[Village Mama]

We make a nice quick meal where I fry up the beef with some onions and garlic until nice and brown. I toss in some chili powder, taco style, maybe a little extra oregano and cumin, then stir in a drained and rinsed can of black beans. I serve this with brown rice. On the table though I lay out a platter with chopped veggies like avocado, tomato, sliced red onion, red pepper, cilantro, shredded carrot.( like a salsa but separated so the kids feel like they are in control!). If mangos are in season the boys love thos sliced too. . I put a bed of finely shredded lettuce underneath everything. Oh.... and I put out a bowl of the bottom of the corn tortilla chip bag. The stale end parts that no one eats! Then we crush them on top. For the people who can eat dairy I put out plain yogourt. Anyhow. I make a " build your own" style of meal around the plain base. This is always a hit. It is like having tacos with brown rice in a bowl without tortillas.( we are gluten free and cant find uncontaminated corn tortillas here)
I eat mine grain free on a bigger bed of lettuce like a taco salad!

[Alyantavid]

Originally Posted by lyterae

Subbing, I'm in the same boat.

Yeah that. We do alot of hamburgers, meatballs, meatloaf, spaghetti and tacos. Taco soup is a good one that's really easy.

[crunchy_mama]

Originally Posted by Village Mama

We make a nice quick meal where I fry up the beef with some onions and garlic until nice and brown. I toss in some chili powder, taco style, maybe a little extra oregano and cumin, then stir in a drained and rinsed can of black beans. I serve this with brown rice. On the table though I lay out a platter with chopped veggies like avocado, tomato, sliced red onion, red pepper, cilantro, shredded carrot.( like a salsa but separated so the kids feel like they are in control!). If mangos are in season the boys love thos sliced too. . I put a bed of finely shredded lettuce underneath everything. Oh.... and I put out a bowl of the bottom of the corn tortilla chip bag. The stale end parts that no one eats! Then we crush them on top. For the people who can eat dairy I put out plain yogourt. Anyhow. I make a " build your own" style of meal around the plain base. This is always a hit. It is like having tacos with brown rice in a bowl without tortillas.( we are gluten free and cant find uncontaminated corn tortillas here)
I eat mine grain free on a bigger bed of lettuce like a taco salad!

That is kind of like haystacks we had growing up- chili on top of corn chips w/ lettuce, tomato and other salad fixings- I love it but dh is not impressed.