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Easy Ground Beef Dinner Recipes are perfect for easy weeknight meals. I don’t know about your house, but dinner is the last thing I want to think about most nights! With busy after-school schedules, sports, work, and just life, weeknight dinnertime can be chaos!
Ground beef recipes are normally ones all three of my kids will eat without much complaint or issues! I love to watch for meat markdowns to pair with sales to stock up on ground beef for cheap! One tool over the years I have fallen in love with is my Pampered Chef meat chopper; it makes ground meat so much easier to cook!
Take a lot of prep work out of weeknight dinners and precook and freeze your cooked ground beef! Pull and defrost the ground beef from the freezer to put in this recipe for an easy weeknight dinner! (If you aren’t sure how to best do this, check out Freezing Cooked Ground Beef)
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Easy Ground Beef Recipes
Freezing your ground beef pre-cooked in a skillet and then drained of grease is a huge time saver! I love to add some minced onion to mine to add a bit of flavor, but I keep it flavor-neutral for various recipes and can use a ton of ingredients.
Just pull it from the freezer and allow it to thaw to cook with. Also, you can swap out ground turkey or ground chicken for most of these, which will still taste great.
Ground Beef Crockpot Recipes
Ground beef is one of those proteins that most kids will eat and it can be picked up on sale often! Even better if they are ground beef crockpot dinners.
Easy Crockpot Lasagna Soup Recipe
So easy to put together without the work that goes into lasagna. Top with the cheese after cooking for melted cheese just like oven-baked lasagna.
Crockpot Sloppy Joes are a tasty dinner and so easy to make! Make the sauce and let it all cook together with the meat in the crockpot! It really is easy to combine tomato sauce, ketchup, and some seasonings for an easy weeknight dinner! Ground beef helps to make a frugal dinner too!
Vegetable And Ground Beef Soup Crock Pot is a perfect easy soup to make! Ground beef in a soup is a great way to make dinner that kids love and is frugal! Use frozen vegetables or canned to make this, you can substitute the meat for a different cut of meat like chicken and turkey as well.
Crock Pot Hamburger Stew is a dinner that is both hearty and budget friendly! It is made with ground beef, potatoes, carrots, and a rich tomato broth. Works out perfect for busy weeknights and those cold fall and winter days! A family-friendly slow cooker meal everyone will love.
A ground beef casserole is fast and easy to throw together for dinner time, especially with kids after school activities. Move over meatloaf. These dishes beat out the classics that we grew up with. Be sure to check out all mycomforting casserole recipes for easy weeknight meals.
Easy Homemade Shepherd’s Pie Recipe
This Easy Homemade Shepherd’s Pie Recipe is the perfect comfort food to make at home! Use ground beef and top with mashed potatoes and cheese! Perfect for St Patrick’s Day!
Friendship casserole is a quick and easy meal the whole family will love! Be sure to check it out and pin it!! Makes enough to share a casserole or freeze!
This Easy Baked Ziti Recipe is a perfect weeknight dinner! Or use leftover spaghetti with cheese as well! Easy dinner with meat, cheese, sauce, and pasta!
Use your Instant Pot with precooked, browned hamburger to make an easy weeknight dinner! I love you can throw everything in it and allow it to cook!
Easy Instant Pot Beef Chili
This Instant Pot Beef Chili is so easy to make and will be a hit with the family! I get all the ingredients in bulk or on great sales to always have on hand as pantry staples for our family dinners!
This Hamburger Soup Recipe is kid friendly! Plus its a easy and quick for a busy weeknight. Made out of pantry items its perfect to whip up last minute!
These Homemade Meatballs In Spaghetti Sauce are perfect for a family dinner night! Rolling meatballs is the perfect way to get kids in the kitchen cooking!
A DIY Nacho Bar is the perfect way to have an easy time tailgating for any game! Plus this also makes for a laid back way to serve as well, since every one makes what they want and can just snack later on.
Which of these ground beef dinner ideas would you try?
Easy Ground Beef Recipe Swaps
These are extra ingredients and pantry staples you can add into any of these dishes or swap out
Onion
Rice
Garlic
Bell Pepper
Tomatoes
Black Beans
Soy Sauce
Cream of Mushroom Soup
Worcestershire Sauce
Tomato Sauce
Corn
Egg Noodles
Green Chiles
Ground Turkey
Crockpot Recipes To Check Out
Crockpots are versatile and perfect for making meals without much work or effort. I use mine constantly! Below are some of my favorite collections of recipes I’ve made in my kitchen. Slow Cooker recipes are an easy way to get dinner on the table.
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Jennifer Johnson is the creator and owner of Cook Eat Go, a go-to resource for busy families looking for easy, delicious meal solutions. As a work-at-home single mom of three, she knows firsthand the challenges of juggling family life while making homemade meals a priority. With a passion for practical cooking, meal prepping, and finding time-saving kitchen hacks, Jennifer shares recipes that are both family-friendly and Weight Watchers-friendly. She is also an avid outdoor enthusiast who loves hiking, running, as well as lifting weights.
I love the American Goulash!! It is one of the best tasting ground beef dishes ever! Have you ever tried ground beef and rice? Mmmm…. It’s also a good way to use up extra rice or ground beef left overs from tacos!!!
I just recently discovered The Hobo Dinner and it is simply amazing and so easy! I boil my carrots and potatoes for a few minutes before putting them in the oven, because we like our potatoes and carrots really did and 20 minutes in my oven doesn’t cut it, but we have had this meal 3 times in the past week for dinner and love it!
this is sooo helpful! I’m always looking for ground beef recipes! thanks!
Where do you find these recipes? very good choices. My go to for beef is chili or stroganoff.
mmmmmmmmmmmm yummy delicious.
I love the American Goulash!! It is one of the best tasting ground beef dishes ever! Have you ever tried ground beef and rice? Mmmm…. It’s also a good way to use up extra rice or ground beef left overs from tacos!!!
This is a great list of easy ground beef dinner recipes! I cannot wait to try the Cheeseburger Stromboli . Yum!
ive been thinking about making something similar to the american ghoulash! thanks for the inspriation!
I just recently discovered The Hobo Dinner and it is simply amazing and so easy! I boil my carrots and potatoes for a few minutes before putting them in the oven, because we like our potatoes and carrots really did and 20 minutes in my oven doesn’t cut it, but we have had this meal 3 times in the past week for dinner and love it!