Beefburgers, need to use up.

swizzlebabe

Need to eat up out of the freezer so I can defrost it, and do an online shop.

How ever I have found a 12 box of beefburger left over from the summer. The children will not eat them, and I don`t fancy the idea of burgers in buns for tea for the next week.

Any ideas on what I can do with them to tart them up a bit? Could i just cut them up and bung them in the slow cooker?

Thanks

My plan then is to shop online every 2 weeks, eat up and then stock up again. Instead of having an empty purse and cupboards/freezer full of food. I hope you with your help this will be possible.

Lorian

Defrost them, mince them in a food processor and make bolognaise sauce. Quite a lot of bolognaise sauce...

smokey112

I would also defrost them and maybe make chilli or meatballs

Ang
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Bossyboots

I have a burger in orange sauce recipe for the slow cooker. I will dig it out shortly and post it here.

Queenie

You can use them to make as a pizza topping:

Cook them; cut into strips; put on your pizza after the tomato base but before your cheese.

Cook them, stick into a food processor, then use like a meat pate/sandwich filler (add some other flavourings too such as gherkin etc.)

tr3mor

Chop them into chunks, and make a quiche with them, potato chunks and onions/leek. Yummy!

Iguana

Sweet and Sour Stir Fry (from a Family Circle Magazine)

450g pack frozen beefburgers, defrosted
250g can pineapple rings in natural juice, drained, reserve juice
2 teasps ground ginger
Sunflower oil
250g chopped onions
1 each red and green pepper, cored, deseeded and thinly sliced
45 ml dark soy sauce
15ml tomato puree
30mls malt vinegar
1tbsp cornflour
125g cucumber, cut into sticks
3 spring onions trimmed and chopped.

Put beefburgers and pinapple rings on a baking tray and grill for 8 mins turning once. Cut burgers into strips and sprinkle with ginger, cut pineapple into chunks. Heat oil in a wok and stir fry onions and peppers for 3 to 4 mins until soft. Stir together the pineapple juice, soy sauce, tomato puree, vinegar and cornflour and add to wok with beefburger strips and bring to boil and simmer for 7 mins. add pineapple, cumcumber strips and chopped spring onions and cook for another 2 mins. Serve with egg noodles.

Bogof_Babe

I thought most kids were mad on MacDonalds - but I assume yours are not?

I'd be quite happy with cheeseburgers (add a slice of processed cheese and a spoonful of tomato relish), so could you not work out a variation on bog-standard burger-in-a-bun meals that will seem more like a treat than a penance for them? I'd have thought a greaseproof paper wrap of oven chips on the side might help!

Anything else sounds way too complicated, but then I am not very adventurous!

swizzlebabe

No I have strange children, 1 will only eat chips if they come from Mcdonalds! no other chips at all, no tomatoe sauce,no cheese.
The other likes any kind of chip and lots of sauce,but no cheese, niether will eat burger or mince, but they will eat sausages.

On the up side they both like lots of fruit and veg, but will not eat mash or anything in a sauce!

I do make them try every time we have new foods, but very rare they find something they like. Find this is better than `making them ` eat what we have as in ends in tears and food in the bin. Atleast they like healthy things.

Trow

swizzlebabe - what REALLY helped my two to decide they actually liked things that they always said they didn't, and try thigs that they wouldn't have before was....

.... anytime I was making something I wasn't sure if they would eat, I would make pudding. The rule in our house (and this is quite a new rule) being that if they don't eat a reasonable amount of dinner - they get no pudding. It is amazing how great the kids are with food now, after maybe 3 months of this rule being implemented. They have never been really bad at trying things - probably a bit like your ones - but now they are really good.