If you read about our 30-pounds of bacon situation, then you know that it only makes sense that I would put together a post full of recipes that include bacon!
30-pounds of bacon, you ask?
Well, yes. Go big or go home, I guess. Matt was being extra helpful when I sent him into Sam’s to grab our favorite box of bacon. He figured we’d go through one box pretty quickly so he might as well pick up three boxes just to be sure it was enough.
I mean, we do feed 13 people daily and extra people on the regular. But 30-pounds of bacon?? Well, it’s a lot.
This is only two of our three boxes. :)
Challenge accepted.
The first few days after acquiring our bulk bacon, we went all in. We made it for breakfast, the adults in our household took it for their lunches, and we made some forgotten recipes that included bacon for dinner. We had company one evening and I planned the entire meal around bacon. I handed off an entire 10-pound box to a friend. So after only five days of picking up 30-pounds of bacon? We only had 11-pound left!
At the top of our list of favorite dinner recipes that include bacon: Creamy Bacon Spaghetti.
Every person from little to big loved this, so I will be making it more often!
In case you ever find yourself in a too-much-bacon situation (is there really such a thing?) keep this post full of recipe links in your back pocket!
Recipes That Include Bacon
First of all, we make bacon bits like this, or I bake bacon in strips like this. Once I have extra bacon made, I can put together any of these great recipes:
- Make Ahead Chicken Bacon Sandwiches
- Instant Pot Bacon Chicken Pasta
- Potato and Bacon Foil Packs for the Grill
- Simple Broccoli Bacon Chicken
- Broccoli Bacon Salad
- Bacon Cheeseburger Roll
- Simple Bacon Cheeseburger Casserole
- Creamy Bacon Spaghetti
- Bacon Cheese Muffins
- Bacon, Egg, and Avocado Salad
- BLT Chopped Salad
- BLT Wraps
- Bacon Ranch Chicken
- Bacon Tomato Dip
- Easy Make-Ahead Baked Potato and Bacon Casserole
- Bacon Ranch Hashbrown Casserole
- Bacon Ranch Chip Dip
What’s your favorite way to enjoy bacon?
Your cousin pretty much got me to fall in love with him the first time he made me a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich. And the rest is history ????
Bacon also freezes really well, too! If I wind up buying bulk amounts, I divide it up into approximate 1/2-pound or 3/4-pound amounts (whatever I think I might need it for), vacuum seal, and freeze. I do this all the time with regular packages of bacon as well when I find them on sale. Great to have bacon stocked in the freezer!
I was going to suggest this same thing. Bacon freezes really well (and thaws quickly!). But it doesn’t seem like there will really be a need with all of the mouths that are being fed in this home. ;) Maybe someone else needed to know.
Awwww, so thankful for the bacon that won your heart so we could become family!! :)