But as long as it gets men to cook it's not all bad.
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First of all, cut the ground beef with ground pork, and save a ton of money. 50/50, or maybe 2/3 Beef, and 1/3 Pork. They're a good combo.
Chili: Add beans (kidney, black, red, a combo), add a 50 cent spice packet from the dollar store, and a can of diced tomatoes. Add some water, and let it simmer.
Spaghetti Sauce: Add a jar of sauce from the store. Simmer for a while. Add other spices to taste. Or not.
Goulash: Add pasta (not spaghetti), and diced tomatoes, and some spices. Add a little liquid. Maybe sprinkle mozzarella cheese over the top. Bake it COVERED in the oven for a while. Take the top off near the end to let the cheese get brown, and the liquid to steam off.
Meatloaf: Take your raw beef/pork mixture, and mix it by hand with a bunch of herbs like chives, parsley, Italian herbs, garlic, salt pepper. Mix in Bread crumbs, or even torn up chunks of stale bread. Form it into one big loaf in a loaf pan, or get small individual sized loaf pans. You can even use muffin pans. Bake them at 350°F until they're done.
Use it to make burrito bowls, like at Chipotle. You know what you like, and you know how to make it, you've seen them do it a million times. You just have to learn to make rice.
Tacos: You know how to make tacos.
6 super easy, super cheap recipes to make ground beef way better. Experiment with them, add veggies, different spices, wine, Worcestershire sauce, BBQ sauce, etc. What's in the fridge?
You can even substitute ground turkey or ground chicken, or non-meat options. Make your buddies buy the ingredients, and you'll cook it, and cycle through these and a few variations and experiments. You get free food, and they get good food. Make them clean up, too.
And if you meet a good woman, she'll be super impressed that you can actually cook.
Ground pork is good for $4.49 in my area. 80/20 is $6.79. a 50/50 mix would cost costs by 16.5%. But for me the real benefit would be the added depth of flavor from the pork.
You bring a lot of good variations on this.