Using 2 forks can make your roast beef go FARTHER than you thought POSSIBLE!

Stretching your roast beef couldn’t be simpler!  Whether you are cooking your roast in a crock pot, oven, pressure cooker, OR getting it straight out of a can this technique goes a long way.

Consider shredding your meat instead of slicing or "cubing" it!! 

Here is an example of a "crazy BUSY day's dinner"-- our burritos one evening: 



I took a 12 oz. can of roast beef (purchased from Costco) to make the meat for Tacos for our family of 5.

This is what 12 oz. looks like IN the can...

This is what 12 oz. looks like OUT of the can...

This is what the meat from the can looks like UP CLOSE...

Start shredding the meat by pulling it apart with 2 forks...

Keep going through all of the chunks & watch the plate fill up with MEAT!!

My 10 year old son enjoyed taking these pictures as I shredded...and then asked if he could have some!!

The END result of SHREDDING all that meat....

Remember this is what looked like
BEFORE it was shredded...

After shredding it, I put into the marinade and I cooked it on the stove top. 

We then enjoyed burritos with shredded meat, beans, and toppings.  (Each of our family prefers different toppings....but olives, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, sour cream, green peppers are all options.)

It is amazing how far 12 oz. of meat will go. In fact, we had leftovers for someone to have a delicious lunch.  One can of meat for a family of 5 WITH leftovers!  Can't get better than that!  (Had we left the meat as “chunks”, I would have had to open several cans in order for my family to feel like they had had a sufficient amount!!)

Happy Stretching Pennies…

PS.  This technique can be easily used with chicken breasts, pork roasts or turkey breasts as well!