Start by cooking your bacon in a skillet over medium-high heat. Once it's done, remove it from the pan and set aside.
In that same pan with the bacon fat, add in your ground beef. Break it up a little and immediately add in your diced purple onion. Brown the ground beef, breaking it up as it cooks.
While your ground beef is cooking, get your rice started.
While your rice and ground beef are working, start your sauce. In a mixing bowl, add 1/4 cup ketchup, 1/4 cup light mayonnaise, 2 Tbsp yellow mustard, 2 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce, 2 Tbsp pickle juice, 1 tsp garlic powder, 1 tsp onion powder, 1 tsp dill, and 1/4 tsp smoked paprika. Mix well and set aside.
Once your ground beef is cooked all the way through, reduce the heat to a simmer and add in your sauce, along with your can of drained diced tomatoes. Mix all of that together and let it simmer for 2-3 minutes, then give it a taste, and add salt and pepper to preference.
When your rice is done cooking, portion it out into your meal containers and portion your ground beef mixture out on top.
Add 1/4 cup of cheese to each meal, top with your crumbled bacon and diced pickles, and you're done.
Enjoy!
Notes
• If you’re not a fan of rice, or you just want to change it up, this can also be eaten over a bed of diced potatoes or even in a salad.• You can also add some shredded lettuce to this meal to make it more filling!• For even distribution of meals among meal containers, you can either estimate the portions, or weigh the entire batch, and divide that number by your number of meal containers. This recipe makes six meals, so it would be the total weight, divided by six. That will be your portion size per meal.• If storing for meal prep, place into freezer safe meal containers, and place in the freezer for freshness. Take the meal out of the freezer and place it in the refrigerator the night before to let the meal thaw out.