I like to food prep a bit and have a few regular things in my rotation one of which is a recipe for turkey sloppy joes I adapted from a few recipes. I've made it before and it comes out pretty well.

This time I made the mistake and tried to use 99% lean ground turkey. I got the dumb idea in my head that it might be slightly healthier. I'm well aware that fat =/= bad and is very important for flavor. Let's just say it's a case of getting bad, passing info from the internet stuck in my head. I knew things weren't going well when toward the end of cooking the meat would squeak when rubbing on my spoon. The flavor of the sauce itself is fine but the meat doesn't seem to have absorbed much, if any of the sauce. Here are the two main complaints with it in its current state:

1. The meat tastes like nothing. I broke it up to the desired consistency but it still feels like the meat and the sauce are very distinctly separate things in a bite. The dish itself tastes almost "watered down" and like very little as a result.

2. The texture of the meat sucks. It's not completely inedible but it's on the hard and dry side. I could overlook this if the flavor was there but combined these two things are going to make a very unpleasant couple weeks of this dish.

Any tips to salvage or repurpose would be helpful! More than half of it is frozen currently so any modifications would be made in batches or before each meal.