Here in The Frugal Navy Wife household, we are all about simple and easy meals. On a busy day or a day where we look up and it’s 4 pm and time to start thinking about dinner we always have a few recipes we have everything for and they are simple and easy to throw together. This Lazy Beef and Noodles is one of them! It’s easy to double the recipe (or triple!) and there are hardly ever any leftovers!
Lazy Beef & Noodles
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Like I said super easy! 4 ingredients and go!
Lazy Beef and Noddles Ingredients
1 bag egg noodles
2 packets brown gravy mix
1lb 80/20 ground beef
1/2 large onion
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Lazy Beef and Noodle Directions
Chop your onions.
Boil noodles
Meanwhile, caramelize onions and brown ground beef.
Mix onions and ground beef together and cook together for a few minutes. Next, make the gravy mix as directed in the pot with the meat/onions.
Salt as desired and serve meat over noodles.
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Lazy Beef & Noodles

Ingredients
- 1 bags egg noodles
- 2 packets brown gravy mix
- 1 lb 80/20 ground beef
- 1/2 large onion
Instructions
- Chop your onions.
- Boil noodles, meanwhile caramelize onions and brown ground beef.
- Mix onions and ground beef together and cook together for a few minutes. Next make the gravy mix as directed in the pot with the meat/onions
- Salt as desired and serve meat over noodles.
I love this recipe! It’s my, “I’m really tired but I have 4 kids I have to feed” recipe. I add a packet of ranch mix in with the gravy mix to give it a little extra flavoring. Sooo good!
Great idea, we have done it with Italian dressing mix too!
Simple and it looks delicious! This is a must-try for my family and thank you for sharing!
Can you make this with ground venison? This sounds delicious and I know my husband will love it!.
Thank you and your husband for your service. I am a Navy Veteran and have 2 sons who serve in the Army and Air Force. The military is very important to me!
Thank you for your service and your sons too! I would say yes you can use it with venison, I’ve never done it so please let me know how it turns out.
Thank you for your selfless service. My daddy was an Air Force Veteran MP.
Turned out delicious! I had mushrooms that needed cooked and only had two packs of mushroom gravy! It worked so well using this recipe!
Can this be frozen, I made way too much!
I’ll be trying this tonight except I’ll be using Better Than Beef Bouillion gravy and I’ll be adding garlic as well. I had an idea in mind for dinner and found this recipe. Thanks for sharing it!!
Hi, I would like to try this recipe but wanted to know with the gravy do I open the gravy packets and add it to the ground meat mixture or do I mix the gravy with water as directed on the packet and pour it in with the ground meat?
I just poured it in with the meat mixture. The gravy packet and water. Mixed it all together.