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Does anyone have good bean recipes to share - especially ones where the beans are disguised? I'm thinking this is one way we can save a bit to pay for all the school stuff I just ordered.
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Janet, this recipe (from the Betty Crocker website) is very good:
http://tinyurl.com/2bfvlq
You can use home-cooked black beans; I usually cook about two cups of black beans and then double the salsa etc.
(I'm making a spicy chickpea/potato soup right now, but the beans are definitely not disguised, and the seasonings include turmeric and curry powder--not quite as "kid-friendly" as the black bean spread.)
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Janet,
I make taco salad with kidney beans and organic refried beans exclusively - no meat! Hide it under all the good stuff, lots of chips and salsa. Cheap and easy - my favorite way to cook.
You might consider going meatless (not necessarily a bean meal) 2-3 times/week. We do, and it has cut back meat consumption, and I've started seeing a saving in the grocery bill. I cook meatless 2 nights, and pray for meatless leftovers  for at least one other night. We do lots of pastas with cheese, fish and seafood, and creative beans - bean chili, bean soup, bean tacos. Combine the meal with a hearty slice of whole wheat bread, and the meal will stick! Haven't tried it yet, but I plan on using some beans in place of ground beef in a spaghetti casserole I make!
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Spicey Bean Salsa
Red Bean Salad
You can puree bean soups to hide the beans:).
Love,
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Hi Janet,
We eat beans at least 4 times a week: black beans, red and green lentils, mung beans etc. I was a vegetarian when I met my hubbie so had some experience with beans. Then we often had very little cash and lived way high up in the mountains not too near to stores: so beans it was.
More With Less- this is a great cookbook put out by the Mennonite Central Committee. They have a whole chapter on bean recipes.
Some favorites here are....
-curried lentils: fry some onions, add grated ginger and
garlic if you like, add rinsed lentils (red or green)
and a healthy dose of curry ,cover with about double
the water and simmer away for about 20-35min. We eat
it with Basmati rice
-black beans and rice- serve with taco/burrito fixings, or with salsa and sour cream
To mask beans a few ideas might be... throw a handful of lentils in with your chilli to get people used to the taste, or add in more beans to your chilli gradually till you phase out the meat. Throw some white beans into a veggie soup with some pasta (beans would be protein source), or just throw in some beans with pasta with tomato sauce and leave out the meat. Refrying beans and layering them with some cheese and salsa etc in a casserole would also mask the taste.
We find that having a few bean nights saves alot on the grocery bill, especially as I can buy the beans quite cheap in the Asian section of our grocery store.
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We eat beans alot too. I kind of wing it. You can find lots of recipes for what I make on the internet.
Black bean soup
Chili
Taco Soup
Red beans and rice
Nachos with drained beans, cheese, etc.
Burritos (seasoned taco meat, beans, cheese)
Bean Tacos - drained canned beans in food processor with water, cumin, olive oil, chili powder & garlic powder
Bean Salad
Split Pea Soup
15-Bean Soup
Baked Beans
Bean Dip Sandwiches - canned beans in food processor with cumin, garlic & a little mayo
Sorry, they're not all "hidden" but maybe you can find something that everyone will like?
I do use canned beans but for larger quantities, I cook dry beans in my pressure cooker
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Here is a recipe we use a lot. The kids usually eat a bowl of beans the first night. The next night, we make burritoes. A friend of mine gave us the recipe. SHe and her husband eat this almost everyday. I add mushrooms sometimes, just to give it some extra texture.
I also like to put sour cream and cheese in my bowl.
4 c pinto beans
1 8 oz can tomato paste
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 large onion chopped
2T chili powder
1/4 t. cumin
1/4 t. ground pepper
1/4 t. crushed red pepper
1 T. salt
Sort and soak beans overnight in cold water. In morning, rinse twice, and cover with fresh water. Add all other ingredients and stir. Bring to boil in large covered cooking pot. Reduce heat and simmer until beans are tender, about 1-2 hrs. May add a small amount of chopped beef if have on hand, and if desired. Use beans as filling for burritoes. Use tortillas from the grocery store, and shred cheese over beans before wrapping tortillas.
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I can't add much to what everyone said.... But I started trying to do beans 4 or 5 years ago. We hated them,  but then we started getting very serious about budgeting and suddenly we felt it was a really good way to save money and still get lots of protein. I only buy dried beans, they are the cheapest and do them up in large batches in my crockpot, then I divide them into meal sized portions and freeze in individual packs.
If your dc don't like a recipe, move on to another one. You can do all kinds of Mexican-type dishes with beans, and our family likes Mexican so I do these a lot. My dc actually get excited to know we are having beans! Also consider giving the beans neat names like "Rich and Saucy beans" I got that recipe from Above Rubies Magazine, and my dc call them "Rich and Saucies" 
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This is so yummy and a great summer dish! Enjoy!
LAYERED SOUTHWESTERN SALAD
1/3c. chopped fresh cilantro
1/2 c. lime juice (I used the bottled stuff)
1/2 c. olive oil
1/2 c. sour cream
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1(16 oz.) pkg. romaine lettuce, shredded
5 plum tomatoes, chopped
1 (15 oz.) can black beans, rinsed & drained
1 small purple onion, chopped
1 (8 Oz.) pkg. shredded Mexican 4-cheese blend
1 (15 oz.) canwhole kernel corn with red & green peppers, drained
1 (6 oz.) can sliced ripe olives, drained
2 c. crushed tortilla chips
Garnish: fresh cilantro leaves
Process first 7 ingredients in a blender or food processor until smooth. Layer lettuce and next 7 ingredients in a 3-qt. bowl. Pour vinaigrette over salad just before serving, & gently toss.
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In case you're looking for something different, mung beans are really little and yummy in a soup, especially flavored with things like shrimp or bacon or ham or smoked fish.
Adzuki beans are also yummy mashed up into a paste, sweetened, and used as filling for pastry, or swirled into ice cream.
We also eat sweetened chickpeas -- try it with milk and ice!
Beans also come in other forms -- like noodles -- usually in Asian supermarkets. My kids love bean thread vermicelli. This is soaked and then stir-fried with chicken and vegetables. It can also be used as filling for eggrolls/springrolls.
And of course there's tofu or tempeh which is made from beans.... or you can make beans into a veggieburger... and don't forget hummus, which can be made from the traditional chickpeas, or from black or white beans!
Sometimes novelty works; if it's something the kids aren't that familiar with (like chili) they might be intrigued by, and might actually try -- maybe even like -- a new dish.
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I agree about giving them special names. THe recipe I posted above is our kids beloved "Mary Barbara beans" because that's my friend's name(the one who gave us the recipe). They love Mary Barbara, and they will eat anything she makes.
We also spice up baked beans with Pepperonis and stuff. We call them Cowboy beans, adn my boys go crazy!
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Thank you all very much. I've printed this post and the recipes linked. We are off to trying to have more meatless meals.
The layered Southwestern really looks promising. With all that sour cream my 4 yo is bound to love it. He eats sour cream straight from the container whenever we have tacos. Spicy is not a problem at our house - my 4 yo only uses that description when the meal has visible beans because when he was little I always set aside something plain for him when we had spicy meals and he decidedly does not like beans. This child eats spicy red ginger like candy!! My 10 had jalapenos at a very young age (actually we gave him a tiny piece to teach him a lesson about parents knowing best when he was begging and we had said no so often. The lesson backfired and we had to hide the jalapeno jar before he ended up with a major diaper rash.)
I will have to try and come up with some fancy names without the word bean in them and see what happens
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Janet,
That's funny about the jalepenos. My five year old is the sme way. He loves hot and spicy foods!
Jen
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