Posted: 1/31/2014 7:17:33 PM EDT
| Rice and beans, Whatkind should I look for I am heading to Costco and some other places this weekend. |
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Do you eat a lot of rice and beans now? Do you have a plan for how you will use them?
Answer that first then you will know what to buy. Personally I like chick peas. Easy to cook and goes with almost any meal. Cold in a vegetable salad, hot in soup or stew, or add some oil and make humus. |
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Quoted: I dont eat beans but I am thinking of getting foods that I can store in my garage take a weeks shopping trip of non perishables and buy 4 times that amount. don't do it all at once unless you have the money. store that stuff in your garage for a needy time in your life. Next time you go shopping, take 1 week of stuff from the garage, put it in your kitchen and put the stuff you bought in the garage to keep a rotation going, that way you always have fresh canned good stored. |
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Rice and beans are fine, but look for stuff to flavor it with too. Otherwise you will get sick of it really, really fast. I keep an eye out for sales Progresso and Campbell "meal in a soup" to add to my rice meals. Every once in a while my local supermarkets will have these on sale for close to a buck a can (normally almost $4). Cans of Manwich also work excellent. |
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I stock things like bouillon (chicken, tomato-flavored, beef) and broth powders, powdered gravy sauce mixes, chili powder, spices, garlic powder, powdered cheese, powdered butter - things like that. It's useful with pasta, rice, whatever to add some flavoring, and it lasts a good long time, too.
I have no desire to eat straight, unflavored rice and beans every day. Hell, I have no intention of eating rice and beans every day period, but when I do eat it I want some flavor. |
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I stock things like bouillon (chicken, tomato-flavored, beef) and broth powders, powdered gravy sauce mixes, chili powder, spices, garlic powder, powdered cheese, powdered butter - things like that. It's useful with pasta, rice, whatever to add some flavoring, and it lasts a good long time, too. I have no desire to eat straight, unflavored rice and beans every day. Hell, I have no intention of eating rice and beans every day period, but when I do eat it I want some flavor. it is kind of what ever you get use to. Growing up here in the south, we had rice for every meal (except breakfast and that was grits) so I am use to eating rice and like it. we use the beans or gravy to flavor with....  ...ummmm fried squirrel gravy over rice.......
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I like the taste of red, black, and pinto beans if cooked by themselves... great northern for soup... I plan sprouting some of the beans if there is an extended food outage, and the great northern sprouts taste better than the pinto... so I store more of the great northern..., although they are slightly more expensive as I can get the pinto beans at a Latin market... mostly long grain rice, but a couple of pounds of converted rice in case I need to cook with a limited amount of heat
I vacuum seal in quart mason jars with the food saver jar attachment... store in the OEM cardboard boxes the jars come in |
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As mentioned above, buy spices and bouillon. I buy the gallon jugs of dried onions and garlic powder from Sam's Club and break them down into pint jars that I seal with my vacuum sealer.
the dried hashbrowns from Sam's are fantastic too. A double handful of dried hash browns and a table spoon of dried onions in a bowl of warm water for about a half hour, fries up real well in some bacon grease. Oat meal. Get lots of oatmeal. I buy the Quaker rolled oats from Sams and I buy 50# bags of steel cut oats from Honeyville Grains when they have a sale. The cool thing about Honeyville is they ship any order for $5 no matter how many hundreds of pounds I buy. Get pasta as well. I buy #10 cans of crushed tomatoes for less than $3 and with a few spices I can make a huge pot of sauce for spaghetti. I can my own hamburger and other meats in my pressure canner so my prepper spaghetti and meat sauce is hearty. |