Thanks to all of you that have made some very creative suggestions.

I'm going out to the store soon to buy the dynamite.

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 13:14:00 GMT, Gary > wrote:

>I use ground beef for making chili and meatloaf. I package it into 2
>pound packages and freeze it in my freezer. Two pounds is enough for
>one recipe of either of the two items I use it for.
>
>Now I've just bought a new silicone loaf pan for meatloaf and have
>found a more reasonable recipe size is 3 pounds of ground beef. So I
>have inappropriate size packages, at least for the meatloaf.
>
>I suppose I cqn buy more ground beef and package it into 1 pound sizes
>and freeze it, but I have a LOT of frozen ground beef and would prefer
>to use what I have.
>
>Any suggestions for how I can repackage the frozen beef into different
>portion sizes without ruining the beef by defrosting it and refreezing
>it?
>
>Thanks in advance for your suggestions.