Easy and Delicious Ground Beef Recipes - Weekly Meal Plan (2024)

FAQs

How do I make a weekly meal plan for one? ›

How I Prep a Week of Easy Meals for One in Just Over an Hour. The strategy here is to start with a great basic recipe that has a protein and a versatile vegetable. This way you can then repurpose the leftovers to make another easy and quick “new” meal with just a couple of additional ingredients.

USDA recommends using cooked leftovers within 3 to 4 days. There are two different families of bacteria: pathogenic bacteria, the kind that cause foodborne illness, and spoilage bacteria, the kind of bacteria that cause foods to deteriorate and develop unpleasant odors, tastes, and textures.

To lose 10 pounds in one week, you'll need to burn between 3,500 and 5,000 calories more than you consume each day by restricting your diet to small portions of nutritious yet low-calorie foods, and significantly increasing your aerobic exercise with interval training, sports, and other vigorous activities.

The Simple meal plan provides recipes with just a few ingredients. We've also repeated ingredients across multiple meals to keep the grocery list short, reduce food waste, and save you money.

Prep your ingredients or batch cook.

Either prep your ingredients on the weekend (i.e. cook meat, cook and shred chicken, cook rice/quinoa, chop onions, etc.) so that it's faster to cook your weeknight dinners, or you'll batch cook entire meals ahead of time so all you have to do is reheat the day-of.

Raw ground beef is generally safe to consume within 1 to 2 days of refrigeration. After 4 days, there's an increased risk of bacterial growth and spoilage. To ensure food safety, it's best to cook or freeze raw ground beef within a couple of days of purchasing it.

Is week old ground beef ok to eat? ›

Like most foods found on the perimeter of the supermarket, ground beef is super perishable. It can go rancid quickly, so you don't want to wait too long to cook or freeze it. You really only have about two days to use ground beef before it starts to spoil, according to the USDA.

7 course meal: A 7 course dinner menu includes an hors d'oeuvre, soup, appetizer, salad, main course, dessert, and mignardise. 6 course meal: A 6 course dinner menu includes an hors d'oeuvre, soup, appetizer, salad, main course, and dessert.