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Take and Make Menu Plan: Recession Beans Recipes
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Danelle Ice - Home Ever After |
May 3rd, 2009 |
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Our menu plan this week features frugal recipes made from one of our favorite frugal cooking ingredients, beans! Not only are beans packed full of protein, but they also incredibly cheap.
Beans are the ultimate recession food, because they’re inexpensive, small and easy to store, and dry, so they don’t require refrigeration or freezing. Stockpiling beans for your pantry at little cost should be no problem, and using them up in these recession beans recipes during the lean times is a great way to stretch your grocery dollars.
Read more about getting frugal in our recession proofing series: Recession Proof Your Pantry and Food, It’s Not About How Much You Make, What Would We Do if My Husband Lost His Job?, How one SAHM Recession-Proofed Her Family, and 5 Surefire Ways to Recession Proof Your Job.
Take And Make Menu Plan:
Recession Beans Recipes
Menu is planned for a family of 4. Please adjust ingredients and recipes up to accommodate extra people.
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Meals with Recipes:
Monday
Dinner: Calypso Pineapple Bean Pot recipe. Sorry, no picture on this one.
Tuesday
Dinner: 1-Pot, 3-Bean Chicken Stew recipe. This beans recipe makes 8 servings, but recipe has a built in calculator to allow you to adjust the number of people you’ll be cooking for. The calculator will automatically adjust the amount of ingredients to the perfect quantities.
Wednesday
Dinner: Argentine Lentil Stew recipe. This beans recipe makes 4 servings and is not likely one that’s already in your regular dinner rotation. It’s different, so give it a try!
Thursday
Dinner: Be Prepared Five-Bean Soup Mix. This recession beans recipe makes 24 servings, so it’s a great way to do your bulk cooking to refrigerate or freeze the extra portions for later. If you’re a big fan of cooking in batches to save time, this recipe is for you.
Friday
Dinner: Bean and Tomato Stew with Sage recipe. Serves 4. This beans recipe looks like a cross between a really tomatoe-y chili and a thick winter soup.
Saturday
Dinner: Bean, Pasta and Roasted Pepper Soup. This beans recipe is by the Campbell’s Kitchen and takes only 15 minutes of prep time. Makes 8 servings.
Sunday
Dinner: Leftover Love. Spread out a buffet table of all the leftovers from the week’s beans meals. This means a day-off for the chef!
If you liked our recession beans recipes, you’ll probably find our Great Depression Recipes Menu Plan useful. Print out our other Take and Make Menu Plans or check out other menu plans at Menu Plan Monday.
I always love getting ideas from your site, but this week you’ve really “bean” an inspiration. Hee hee, couldn’t help it
Keep up the good work!
love leftover night don’t you
These are all wonderful ideas! I just bought a bag of beans on Saturday as I have leftover ham in the freezer to use it. I will try a couple of these recipes too, thanks!
Great recipes! Thanks for sharing!
~Liz
now, thats alotta beans!! better take your beano-o!!! lol some of these sound really good!!
Sounds fabulous! I love using beans, both to stretch a buck and also to add fiber to our meals. Can’t wait to check out your menu planner!
@Michelle: lol Thank you! (That was a good one, by the way)
Barbi
@jsprik: Not everyone may have the strength to eat beans for an entire week! As long as you soak them for at least 24 hours, and rinse them and refill the water at least 3 times, you shouldn’t have a problem with the enzymes and gassiness.
Barbi
Love the list of soups! I’m visiting last week’s menus in preparation for the coming week. As it’s going to be hot this weekend and much of next week I think I’ll pass on the soups for now. Have a great Mother’s Day!