by Millie Copper | Mar 20, 2011 | Meal Plans, Stretchy Beans
Week 12 of my 13 Week Menu Plan. This is black bean week. Our third time during the 13 weeks to have black beans. I tried to put some time between bean repeats but we still had them week 6 and week 9 and now week 12. I think I’ll adjust my menu plan a bit to...
by Millie Copper | Mar 13, 2011 | Meal Plans, Stretchy Beans
This is week 11 of my 13 Week Rotating Menu Plan. This week’s Stretchy Bean is Pinto. To shake things up a bit, the pintos will become Baked Beans from day 1 with day 2 and 3 recipes also using baked beans as the base. This idea comes from The Complete Tightwad...
by Millie Copper | Mar 12, 2011 | Nourishing Traditions
I received a comment/question from Tiff and I could use a little help from everyone in answering it. Tiff :o) said… “From what I’ve read, your family is pretty open to the way you eat but was it always that way? It’s just me and my husband but...
by Millie Copper | Mar 9, 2011 | Food Storage Recipes, frugal options
Rice is one of our preferred side dishes. One reason is that rice goes well with beans and we sure do eat alot of beans! 😉 We usually have soaked brown rice but sometimes we have regular old white rice. I know that brown rice is a better choice nutritionally but Kiki...
by Millie Copper | Mar 7, 2011 | Meal Plans, Stretchy Beans
Week 10 of my 13 Week Rotating Menu Plan. This week features Lentils as our Stretchy Bean. I do my lentils a bit different than most of the other Stretchy Beans. After soaking the lentils instead of cooking them, I let them begin to sprout (click here for sprouting...