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Frugal Foods Series with Jenn Fowler

by Sweetie!

My friend Jenn Fowler’s Frugal Upstate has a great feature happening: Frugal Foods Series.  This week they are focusing on Beans. Do you have recipes you can share with Jenn or with us here at BasicsMatter.com? We’ll get them to Jenn! We’d love to hear from you. Here is an excerpt from Jenn’s blog so you’ll  recognize Jenn’s site when you get there!

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by JENN @ FRUGAL UPSTATE on AUGUST 17, 2011

Welcome to week three of the Frugal Food Series! So far we’ve talked about eggs andtuna.  This week’s frugal food topic is BEANS!In these challenging economic times I’ve been encouraging everyone to cook from scratch and learn to use basic, frugal foods in new and delicious ways!  To help with that we are compiling as many recipes as we can in 8 frugal food categories:  Eggs, Tuna, Beans, Ground Meat, Chicken (whole/wings/thighs), Potatoes Pasta & Grains, Desserts & Snacks and Potluck Favorites.  (note:  you will always be able to find the all of the Frugal Food Series links at the Frugal Food Series Index!

If you’ve got a great recipe please add it!  If you don’t have a blog, contact me with the recipe and I’ll post it.  And don’t worry if you’ve missed a week–we are leaving the “linky’s” up till mid September in order to collect as many recipes as possible!

And now on to the food of the week-BEANS!

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Beans are the poster child for frugal food~ inexpensive, high in protien (about 22% by volume), high in fiber and easy to cook in a variety of ways.  As an added beneift they have a long storage life–dried beans will last over a year in the bag they come in from the store, and up to 10 years if stored in something airtight with the oxygen removed!

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Of course if you want to be super frugal (and sustainable) you can grow your own dried beans-just plant them let them grow to maturity and leave the pods on the vine until they are dry and the beans rattle around inside.  Then you pop them out and store them.  Eat a bunch, save some for planting next year (assuming they are open pollinated)  Super easy!

to read the rest of this post click Here. Follow Jenn on Twitter @JennFowler  She’s a treat and I know you’ll love her website.

P.S.  She’s one of the WalMart Moms!

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About Sweetie!

Hopelessly in love with Les Berry. A Southerner who never grew up wishing to be the princess, but to be the Queen Mother, who would cultivate a life of service, enjoy treasured friends, share tea with delightful biscuits and wear fabulous hats in the carriage... a life of building leaders and learning, cultivating worthwhile projects and practicing obedience. Wearing many hats as Wife, Mom Step Mom, Creative Strategist, Wordsmith and Educator.
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    Jenn @ Frugal Upstate August 18, 2011 at 9:26 am #

    Thanks so much for telling folks about the series Sweetie! I really hope that it helps encourage folks to feed their family well during these tough economic times.

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