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One or two chuck roast. Sear each side. Move to a large pot, garlic powder, a chipotle pepper, i use the little can, salt, pepper, cumin, one xl can of el pato yellow can tomato sauce, beef broth made from old bones made previously by saving ALL bones evey time you get a cut with bones save them to make broth, anyhow, let all that just cook for overnight in pot or crock pot as I do, next day, use colander and strain out the meat from the sauce, use two forks, pull the meat to shred, put back into the sauce. Cool, then put into individual containers, around eight small freezer containers, i use ziploc cheap ones over and over same ones for years. Make flour tortillas, flour, water, salt, lard. Easy.
Salsa or pico di gallo. Roma tomato dices, onion white diced, cilantro, chopped, garlic powder, cumin, salt pepper, lemon juice, jalepno diced.
Sour cream.
Cheese. Buy in bulk, freeze.
I pull out a container of the frozen meat in am, put in fridge.
Dinner, i set up all the things on counter and heat the meat in microwave, I use the tortilla as a lid on the meat in a bowl to catch the splashes in microwave, it softens the pre made tortillas, take out of microwave, place a smear of sour cream as glue, then meat, then lettuce shredded, pico or salsa, fpold up…homemade Chipotle brrito every night for a few weeks.
Super cost effective and better than Chipotle.
Buy a bag of rice, add cilantro and lemon juice if you want that in burrito. Super cheap.
The idea is, make the food you like buy looking at the website of every place you like to eat and look at the ingredient list, then copy ingredients at home.
Once you buy the little stuff in large sizes like the spices and lemon juice, cumin, garlic powder, etc. the real and only big cost is the meat. Just take Sunday and pre make and portion and freeze the meat in small containers or bags and reuse the containers. Same with stews, chili, soup..anything. Once you do it a few times you have a quck formula and you repeat what you like. Your freezer is always full of your favorites.
Same with chinese type stuff. Or italian.
Pasta.
Rice.
Just make large batches.
Brocolli, beef, noodles.
Read ingredient labels or website nutrition labels.
Remove all the stuff that is oreservatives, only use the real food ingredients.
It really is that easy.
The trick is do large batches.
No real measurements, just flavor as you like, heavy or light.
I like spicy and saucy so I add a lot of flavor.
Copycat recipe search, also helpful.
But Chipotle website, look at nutrition facts, really easy to start there and just stock up on those ingredients in large sizes, spices, etc.
Super easy and way cheaper, you just have to think about your effort. Easy and fast once you do it a few times.
I use the ziploc containers. I have about twenty of these and have used them over and over for 10 years. I do not microwave in them EVER. I freeze in them. I only very quickly microwave for about a minute if really in a hurry to get the frozen food flipped out into a glass bowl to heat the meat before I plan on eating.
If you never microwave the containers they last a really long time freezing or fridge only.
Two chuck roasts done this way make a ton of burritos. Just put in enough meat and all the lettuce, rice, salsa, cheese, sour cream, i buy the xxl daisy brand at walmart, I also like to have a bunch of the chipotle flavor tabasco sauce.
Just stock up on xl sizes of all the flavor and seasonings, the meat is the only bigger cost. Lettuce and a few roma tomatoes and white onions are easy and buy a few the week you are eating..
Look up xxxl lard homemade mexican tortillas on youtube.
Flour, lard, salt, water. Super easy and soft.