rachg82

I've never made shredded pork tacos per se, but there's a braised pork tacos recipe I love that's pretty easy to make and uses pork shoulder, which is pretty cheap. (I usually halve it using the halving instructions and follow user recommendations to use more orange.) Another thing I do if I want to cheat and make super easy pork tacos is to just cook up some chorizo with some onion, garlic and cilantro and squeeze on a little lime. Could not be easier, and is very tasty.

What Carey said about hot dogs; they are not like regular meat and last a while. You can rely on color and smell with a lot of meats to help determine if they're okay--if your beef starts to get brown or smell funny, definitely never eat it, but if it's all pink and fresh-meat smelling, it's usually fine. One thing you can do to avoid spoilage problems and wasting food is to take your fresh meat from the grocery store and separate it into individual portion sizes before freezing. Have some small freezer bags ready and separate chicken breasts, hamburger-sized patties, etc. into separate bags and freeze them individually so you can just grab as much as you need when you're about to make dinner. It's really hard as a single person to use a whole pound of ground meat or a whole package of chicken before it spoils! So if you can't find individually-wrapped chicken or ground beef, just wrap them up yourself as soon as you get back from the store.