20 Frugal Pantry Foods That Last Forever And Cost Pennies
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- In my latest video, "20 Frugal Pantry Foods That Last Forever And Cost Pennies," we unveil a treasure trove of budget-friendly, long-lasting staples that will revolutionize the way you approach grocery shopping.
Join us as we explore a world of pantry essentials that not only have an impressive shelf life but also won't burn a hole in your wallet. Discover the art of smart shopping and learn how to stock up on items that can withstand the test of time without compromising on flavor or nutrition.
From versatile grains and legumes to durable canned goods and timeless spices, our curated list covers it all.
Whether you're a budget-conscious individual, a low income woman trying to make ends meet, or simply someone looking to build a more sustainable and resilient pantry, this video is your go-to guide for maximizing value without sacrificing quality.
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Honey
Rice (white rice only)
Beans (dry)
Oats
Pasta
Canned foods
Lentils
Split peas
Quinoa
Unshelled Nuts
Dried fruits
Powdered milk
Canned meat/tuna
Jerky
Dark chocolate
Ramen
Instant coffee
Tea bags
Bullion cubes
Vinegar
Salt & most spices
Sugar
Oh, I use lentils when Im making spaghetti sauce or chili. I sub in lentils for half of the ground beef to save half the cost on the ground beef. If you sort of mash up your lentils, just a little, a lot of times it goes unnoticed in all that sauce.♥️🇨🇦
This. It can stretch patties, meatloaf, sloppy joes, etc.
Finely chopped or shredded veggies also work in meatloaf, chili, sauce, or taco.
I cut most of my ground beef recipes in half with brown lentils. For dishes like Shepards pie I add Lovage to increase the beefy flavour.
Lovage grows like weed in most places. In summer, I chop up leaves fine, freeze in ice cube trays- makes perfect amount to toss in for any lentil-meat recipe.
I used this stategy at 1/4 lentils to start then increased up to a half in cabbage rolls. This was how I was able to sneak it past my husband who loves anything drowned in tomato sauce.
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Lovage.....I love it! Great comment! ❤️🙋💯💯💯💯
What a wonderful idea. Thank you so much!
I do have a question though:
Lentils are said to cause flatulance...
Have you experienced that as a cause of substituting them in your dishes?
@@patriciaheraty7380 Flatulence happens when your digestive flora lacks the correct bioflora. If your family is new to lentils or beans or you have gone a long time without eating them... introduce lentils in yellow lentil soups first as they are easiest to digest. Then work up to more challenging lentils like green or brown. There is also a herb seasoning that decreases bean and lentil flatulence but I am too far north and was unable to grow it successfully. There are also supposed to be ways to cook lentils or beans that reduce thier gas producing qualities. Am sure Google will know. ❤️
@@reneedevry4361 Thanks so much for your detailed response Renee. I really appreciate it. Am looking forward to re-starting lentils with the yellow ones - sunny color in our current very grey and icky weather - Thanks and all the best to you.
@@patriciaheraty7380 And to you.❤️
Lentils can be used wherever you'd use rice..and lentil chili is delicious !
Just became an empty-nester and find that some of my bills are being reduced automatically. It felt so good that over the past month, I've started actively penning ways to save so that I can close my debts and be free within the next five years, when I retire. Thanks for all these tips. I have atarted some already. Lol.😅
When I became an empty nester my outgo was literally like 70% less. Literally. And I was being frugal with them. It's insane how little I need to live on.
I'm so glad to see someone post about the dates on food. So much food is thrown away because of the misunderstanding of these dates.
Make a big batch of beans in a crockpot. Divide into smaller batches, I do about 2 cups each and freeze. Very cheap meal.
Yes indeed😊
I keep canned beef and canned ground beef in my winter "blizzard" pantry. It works in most recipes and tastes just fine. Nobody in my family except me likes Spam or tuna.
Vinegar will also soften your clothes. Add about a cup to a full load at the rinse
I too use the heavy cream powder, the buttermilk powder, AND the cheddar cheese powder!
Another great use for vinegar is when your plastic shower curtain gets yucky, put it in the washing machine with just a bit of detergent and a cup or two of vinegar. Comes out like brand new.
I put vinegar in the fabric softener cycle
I only add about a 1/4 in the front load washer and it works great but if I had my top loader I might add 1 cup. It softens but also gets rid (kills) of any damp clothes mildew smells
Doesn't anything with fat in it go rancid? Like powdered cream?
Even nonfat powdered milk doesn't really last that long. Less than a year
@@recoveringsoul755 It never did for me when I kept it in the freezer.
Excellent suggestions. One warning about the ramen: I tried storing different brands at different times. ALL of them tasted rancid after a few months (less than 6) storage. I presume it is because they are fried products and the oil residue goes bad. An alternative is to stock some flavor powders and just buy rice noodles/pho noodles or bean thread from an Asian market. Those types of dry noodles can last forever and don't need cooking: just dump them in water and they rehydrate.
Good tip
You can store in the freezer
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I buy a dried, not fried, brown rice ramen. Has a nice texture and lasts longer.
I wondered why my ramen noodles didn’t last long. Thanks for the FYI.
Try making a dish called Mujadara (also spelled Mujadarrah); it's a Mediterranean dish made with lentils, rice, and caramelized onions. So tasty and so inexpensive to make! Lots of recipes online for it. It's one of my favorite vegetarian meals or can be served as a side dish.
That sounds good! I don't really know what to do with lentils, so maybe I will look for a recipe for this dish. Thanks for the tip!
My son requested Mujadera recently but I have not made it yet. His friend’s grandma is from Jordan and she used to make it for the boys all the time. It’s on my list of things to try.
The caramelized onions are everything!!! Mmmmm!
That was going to be my suggestion!
We love it. Growing up it was a Friday staple (non meat day). Mum says it’s 3 ingredients, couldn’t be easier. Brown lentils, rice, diced onion.
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Taco lentils! I love them equally to taco meat. I dice up onions and mushrooms and cook along with the lentils, then add a package of taco seasoning once cooked.
When I was in grad school, every extra cent I had went toward tuition and books,so I ate a LOT of lentils. One of my favorite recipes was for lentil loaf. Sort of like meatloaf, but even cheaper than hamburger was back then.
Lentils have gone from $1lb to $1.34 minimum right now, 😮
That sounds very healthy ❤
Canned meats should be number one. There are so many more than you mentioned, I buy canned meat, but also home pressure can chicken, beef pork loin, bacon, sausage, etc at a much lower cost.
I need to learn how to do this. Much healthier options!
@@Corsina I learned everything from Linda’s Pantry videos that she made a few years ago.
I had ramen in my cupboard (for probably about a year) that was loaded with larvae that became pantry moths that were very hard to eliminate. I now put things like this in zip lock bags as a precaution.
Yes. I store my sugars, flour, pasta, lentils, etc. in zip lock bags. My favorite storage system.
I used to bring home anything with flour and freeze it for 24hrs and then put in a ziplock bag. Double insurance. I put dry beans in a plastic bag also.
Another way to store and prevent infestation is to bake dry goods (flour, white rice, maybe legumes - obviously not sugar or you will get jaw-breaker candy).
Bake starting with a cold oven at about 375°F/200°C for about 2 hours.
Bake in a CLEAN large glass jar with the lid off. (You can use pickle jars or any big jars, you can also use smaller jars, but it's more work.)
Be sure to disinfect the lid and put it on the still hot container after you take it out of the oven. Bonus: that will also give it a vacuum seal.
I thought about doing small jars in recipe amounts, that way you can just take a 2.5 cup jar and make one cake, pie, or whatever without breaking out the bigger jar...
You can dishwash, bake or boil in water to clean the jars - sadly that usually requires electricity, so be efficient and use your oven for double duty.
My mother used to have the oven full when she used it - bread, dinner, sometimes a cake... all at the same time to save on electricity and to justify using the oven...
Quick edit, the Singapore Food Agency says to bake rice at 140°F or 60°C for 20 minutes. It can be spread on a baking sheet and then be put into containers after.
Lentil alert! 🚨
They are fabulous as a main ingredient in a salad! YUM.
I never used to like canned vegetables but I now have lots in my emergency pantry. What convinced me was the time that I was away on vacation and my fridge/freezer died. By the time I came home and discovered this, all the frozen foods had to be thrown out. Canned foods last!
Except canned sauerkraut, and tomatoes. The acidity eats thru the can. Ask me how I know🤣
Some ideas for lentils: spanish lentil stew (with some type of meat, bacon or chorizo, rice, carrots, onions, bell peppers), mediterranean lentil salad (with bell peppers, onions, cucumber, boiled eggs or cheese cubes served cold in the summer), lentil burger, lentil balls (as sidedish for pasta), lentil bolognese (as meat substittute), lentil cake (sugar, flour, polenta, eggs, oil, cinnamon, ginger)
Another way to save on daiy items is to make yogurt in an Instapot. After the initial investment of buying an active culture yogurt, you can freeze your homemade yogurt in ice cube trays (then wrap in saran and store in a freezer bag). I just buy regular 3% milk to make yogurt, I strain it using a coffee filter to make a Greek style consistency. The liquid that comes out is whey, which can be used for many different things. My dog loves a little bit added to her food, its a great source of protein 😊
You can buy a small plain yogurt on sale or even active vanilla and get great yogurts. And if you don’t have an insta pot, $5 garage sale slow cooker does a great job also.
I use lentils to make a vegetarian bolognese sauce, put them in curries or mix them with veg and mince to make a cottage pie, as you can use less mince.
I have never even thought of powdered heavy cream.... Thank you! I have honey, canned meat, then I keep lentils nuts oats choc chips flour butter in the freezer and I keep coffee in the freezer too. I love Nescafe dark its addictive tho : /
We love to eat Mejadara. It is made by cooking rice and lentils. It is a Mediattrranean popular dish. Super for vegetarens too. I always add some fried onion cubes, cumin, salt and peper. I am from Israel and this dish is very common to many households.
Lentil Shepard pie with sweet potato topping..... yummy.... pinterest is your friend in terms of recipes
I am in the middle of a 7 Day Meatless Meal Challenge and made a Lentil Cottage Pie the other night that when Cranberry Sauce is eaten with it - it id delicious! I will be making it again. It has lots of protein, veggies, minerals and vitamons so the meat was not missed.
As a diabetic and overweight, most of these options are out. I saw a comment below about canning meats. I need to learn how to do that.
I hear you. There are a lot of starches on this list that drive up blood glucose. While I appreciate the effort to find inexpensive, shelf-stable sources of nutrition, we all need real, fresh food to be healthy. I was told no more than a half cup of starches per day. So, not much pasta, peas, corn, quinoa, rice, etc. I am not diabetic, I’ve got other metabolic issues, so food is one place where I cannot cut any corners.
Oatmeal? Lentils? Quina
@@yvonneconte3040 Pretty much everything except maybe canned meat, jerky, coffee, tea. IF you have diabetes, almost everything else is a no-go from this particular list. This list is mostly for prepping, and staying alive if things go crazy. heh Pasta, sugar, rice, legumes and anything with carbs is pretty much out for Type 2 Diabetics. It seems to be different for Type 1's, from what I've learned over time. Not every body is the same, though.
You can do it, it’s really easy! Especially doing raw pack, where you basically just stuff chunks of raw meat into a clean jar, add a little salt if desired, add water to 1” from top of jar, and put in a canner. Process according to the directions in the Ball book. It seems intimidating, but it’s really simple, and it slows you too but meat when it’s on sale for a great price, then store it without worrying about your freezer going out.👍🏻
@@lenelenore Thank you!
Speaking of lentils: I am not a fan of Indian food, but there is a "maa ki dhal" recipe that is pretty tasty. It is basically an Indian chili which is rich, creamy and satisfying without being spicy. Just leave out the chili powder and green chilies.
Sounds amazing!
'Rajma' is a bean dish and 'dal makhni' is a lentil dish. These are two other lovely Indian dishes. The chilli and pepper content can be individualized as per your taste.
So easy to cook dried beans, soak over night, then cook in slow cooker. I do a big batch and then freeze in the portions that I will use. Lentils cook faster than dried beans and IMO are tastier.
Thank you for the explanation of product dating. I preach this to people all the time! So many people discard perfectly good food under the mistaken assumption that it's bad because it's gone past the date on the packaging. The smell test is the most reliable one.
I tell people the food can't read the label so it doesn't know it's supposed to be "bad" now so it just carries on being good
@@sherrylewis9327ha ha ! I just found 3 packets of grounded coffee with an expired date 2019 ...they were hidden at the back of
a cabinet ....I decided to try brewing a pot of coffee with that and the coffee is perfectly fine . When I was a kid there were no expiry dates , and my mother taught me how to decide if something was off . It was really helpful and saved money .
Since having Covid, I don’t feel like my sense of smell is as reliable as it used to be. Some days it’s fine, other days it is just “off”. 😢 so I have to be careful when I check foods.
You can’t smell botulism but if the can looks good and sealed the contents should be safe though more mushy or tasteless after a long time.
@@itsawhistle if you have days without smell, please be sure your smoke detector are in excellent working order. Stay safe, please!
I just had a lentil salad with cut up fresh spinach, red onions and tomatoes with lemon juice (spices) it was pretty good. Lentils with rice is delish. Lentil patties are a good thing too…I make up my own teas. I buy tea filter bags and buy bulk Davidsons]’s teas / Earl Grey and Chamomile 🙏🏽🙋🏻♀️👍🏽
I didn’t know about powdered buttermilk or powdered heavy cream… I am going to look for those! Thank you!
I need to check into the powder heavy cream.
Cook your lentils and add 1/2 cup or a whole cup to half a pound of ground meat. It stretches the meat and your family won't know they are in their, you can use green or brown to better hide them. There are recipes on line for making lentil burger's I haven't tried it yet. Top ramen won't last more than a year, the noodles are still good however, the little packages of seasoning go rancid. Peanut butter is a good one to have along with jelly learn to make your own crackers. Due to a very tight budget right now we are only eating out of our pantry. This weeks menu is a lot of baking potatoes with different toppings. I saved small handfuls of chili, and beef with gravy, it's dinner this week. If you find a sale on Spaghetti sauce in the jar, get a couple and put it on the menu for twice a month, with your pasta. I know people think it's bad but, have a container of lard, it can sit on the shelf for awhile. Flour, water and a little lard can make terrific dumplings with what ever broth bones you boiled down. Turn off your lights the heat is on.
And lard makes the best pie crusts EVER!!
I make a cracking vegetarian savoury called Cheese & Lentil Wedges (recipe on request). You bake it in a flan tin, it makes six substantial portions, can be eaten hot or cold as the protein in a lunch or dinner, freezes and reheats brilliantly. Oh, and it costs pennies.
What a lovely well-made video! Thanks. I’d like to share what you can do with lentils. My entire family adores lentil patties. They are delicious! And you can give them a special twist with the spices you use. Editing to add that you can also make lentil salad!!
And lentils are very healthy
Use lentils to make a wrap/tortilla, or a meatless loaf or meatless balls, or add red lentils to tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich.
About the pasta, they get weevils (small crusty bugs). Maybe it's bc of where we live. I live in the state of WA.
Nope as a flour product weevils will infest pasta. I individually bag the packages in storage or freezer bags. I reuse the bags. I used to get pasta free or for pennies, so using and reusing plastic bags wasn’t a big expense. I put the bags in the freezer after use for 24 hour after washing just to be sure nothing is transferred.
FYI - wheat was found in the pyramids along with honey. Some of the wheat was planted and it grew crops. Hard to imagine any plant growing after 2,000+ years.
Beans, just a few thoughts. Have white beans or lentils and fee like a quick soup of addition to a means with out the cooking time. You can put them in a blender (I would use a small coffee bean blender) and then add to hot water and a bullion cube for a fast soup (5 mins or less) or add to other dishes to increase the protein and carbs.
You can also use a slow cooker or insta pot to cook 1-2lbs of beans and freeze. For the slow cooker, I would soak them the night before for faster cooking but they can be dumped into the insta pot as is. Freeze what you done use in 1lb bags like you do leftovers, they should keep in the freezer for at least 3+months. Quick and easy to use from the freezer. If everyday for 7 days you cook a different bean type you would be able to have a different been every day for 1-2 months. Since it’s not meat, you can reuse the bags if desired. Those bags would easily last for a year+ of use.
Dollar General $1 sale items
12/3/23-12/9/23. This week at Dollar General there is a Folgers coupon for $0.75 of Folgers instant coffee and they are good for the $1 instant coffee with 7 packets. That’s $0.25 for 7 packets of coffee. This would be low cost if you have a guest and you don’t drink coffee and have no coffee pot or for travelers who are ok with instant coffee. If you combine this with other products and use the $5 of $25 coupon you get it for even less, $0.20.
Though off the coffee topic the (DG) Betty Crocker muffins pouch for 6 muffins is $1 with a $1 cash back on 3. That’s $3-$0.60=$2.40 and $1 towards a future purchase but if you want to think of it as towards the muffins $2.40-$1=$1.40/3=$0.47 or $0.08 a muffin. They have several flavors (triple berry, blueberry, etc).
There is also Old El Paso chili or taco seasoning for $1.25 buy 5 get $1 off, combine with the $5/$25 it now costs $0.84 each. The deal is spend $6 get $1 off, must buy 5.
Kiss items are $1x25% off or $$0.75x.20%=$0.60 each (looking to dress up for the holidays get 40% of kiss item making acrylic French nails $2.01 for 24 nails).
Gain detergent 8oz, $1x20%=$0.80/16=$0.05 a load, remember front load washers only need 1 tablespoon of detergent ( there are 2 tablespoons in 1 liquid oz). With a larger container you can pay as low as 2-4 cents a load, this is great for road trips and conserving money but you need detergent. Save the container for other uses or to reuse the smaller container in your small laundry area.
There are hundreds of $1 items great for everyday use and Christmas stocking stuffers and decorations that can be had for $0.80 each with the $5/$25 coupon, much less than the dollar store. 64 red and white balloons for $1.60 use some for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, July 4, and Birthdays (20 for each holiday in groups of 3-5 would add a lot of festivity.
Look for these item in the app for DG. They usually tell you how much stock you DG has but that can change, I once got to the store to find all 5 of the items I wanted in someone else’s cart 😢.
Happy Holidays! (This year Christmas I’m regifting to my niece a beautiful Christmas brooch, consider regifting items in good-excellent condition, you can always borrow it for a day😉.)
Cook lentil then add taco or chili seasoning. Cook a bit more to get flavors to set. Use as beef chili or beef taco meat is used. Vinegar can be used with water as a rinse for hair. It will strip built up soap or hair spray. Allow to set on clean hair 3-5 minutes then rinse with clear water. Use a couple of times a month for a healthy shine
You can drop bay leaves in rice to keep bugs from living in the rice
Canned beef is awesome! When my kids were at home and I needed a quick and easy dinner, I would crack open a can of canned beef and use it to make quesadillas!
Use cooked lentils in place of ground meat. Lentil tacos and lentil burritos are delicious! Season as you would raco meat 👍👍
Thank you for sharing❤
Thank you for posting this video. Not what I expected. Very nice. I hadn't ever heard of "freeze by" dates before. I heard of use by, best by, sell by.
🙏 Thanks for all the information. For the chocolate chip or any chocolate on sale I buy a large quantity and put them in 2 freezer bags and put them in the freezer. A year later it still tastes fresh. Lentils I make soup, stews by using potatoes carrots and onions in it. This is my first time seeing your video. I will check out others. Thank You.
My mom used to freeze chocolate chips too.
All the lentils! I basically use it in place of ground beef in a lot of recipes: lentil shepherds pie, lentil “meat” sauce for pasta, even lentil burgers (though I’ve found them to be more work than their worth haha).
I make flatbread from red lentils. I soak them for 3 hours and then drain (1 cup red lentils and 2 cups water). Put in blender with almost 1 cup water and cook like pancakes in non-stick pan. I toast them in a toaster over and put almond butter or peanut butter on them.
On other channels I have seen them using lentils to bulk up hamburger and one lady cooks some in with her rice as they cook up at the same time
If i didn't have an Instant Pot I wouldn't like dry beans either, but it's been a game changer. Also cooking a meal using completely frozen meat. What else can do that? Love the Instant Pot
A pressure cooker can do all that. I've been using one for years.
@@annalieff-saxby568 The instant pot *is* a pressure cooker 🙂
@@Ad-Infinitum I'm afraid I was being pig-headedly literal, since the only things OP mentioned _could_ be done with just a pressure cooker. I realise that the Instant Pot does lots more. I looked into getting one, but can already do everything, except sous vide and slow cooking, with my existing utensils. I'm very tempted by one of the smaller slow-cookers, though.
Except for kidney beans you can put beans in a new coffee grinder and just add the powder to water and a bullion cube or stock to make a creamy soup. I also add salt and pepper to taste. You can add any spice/herb you like. Cooks in about 5 mins in the microwave.
@@Freaysclaw56very interesting! Sounds quite inexpensive and tasty. Not to mention quick and convenient.
Vegan recipes are an excellent source for ways to use lentils. Lots of good cookbooks, TH-cam channels, and websites out there!
A couple things- lentils. TACOS! Also cook and mix 1/2 and 1/2 with ground beef! Or just use for ground beef!
Hi dear, thanks for your useful sugestions. With lentels some veggetarias do a type of hamburguers, mixing with soy protein, like carve, put some onios, garlic, even tomatos and spices, mix everything, so you can prepare a large amount, and then ffroze them. that is a Pakistani recipe.
or you can prepare the lentel with less water, so they became dry and put ir on the side with rice.
Even you can putt in water the lentels for some time, then dry it out, and toas it with a litle oil, add some spices, like parika, and salt, and then you have and snack
For my emergency pantry I have lentils, beans, rice, nuts but otherwise I wouldn't touch them unless soaked at least overnight to remove the naturally occurring phytic acid which causes digestive issues and joint pain, in many, eventually. I'll have to see if I can find heavy cream powder, I've found whole milk powder, although milk powders are toxic, for short emergencies they'd be OK.
Hey..you must try red lentil cacciatore from NYT recipe…delish!
I love your suggestions about the powdered heavy cremes and milks. You are right, I waist the rest of what I use when buying fresh. I will look to store these items dry from now on. Thank a million!!!
Just a heads up, powdered cream does not last forever. Plan to use the entire amount within about 6 months. I got some towards the end of winter to make hot chocolate mix and by early fall the powdered cream had gone rancid.
I just discovered you, and I love you. Such good practical advice. I love you get right to it with your lists!
Never knew about powdered heavy cream. I was always buying it for soup recipes and wasting it. I'm going to order some .
I think that you can add lentils to ground beed to stretch it, like tacos for example.
Thank you for the brown rice tip.
Suggestion for lentils. Not to eat but I have made heating pads out of them.
We make our own dried meat. In our country we call it biltong and I guess it is like your jerky. We also make dried sausage and we call it droëwors. We make it in a food dehydrator that my husband built. We keep it lasting longer by vacuum packing and sealing and then storing in the fridge.
Awesome, Thank you!
Ciao Sarah,faresti un video su cosa usi per le pulizie di casa e della persona 😊.Grazie, sei simpatica
Great video
Instant coffee is ideal for frozen and/or flavored coffee beverages: lattes, mochas, etc.
I freeze chocolate chips & bars. Keep coffee grounds in freezer also
Lentil soup. I cut up lots of celery, carrots and onions and boil them in about 3 cups of water. I add frozen spinach (because that's what I use-I'm sure fresh would be better. Also a can of beef broth. I boil those together for a while until I can smell the celery, then I add the lentils and boil until they are tender. I also add another 3 cups of water just before I add the lentils. I usually use 1/2 bag baby carrots, 1 bunch of celery, 1/2 red onion, and a handful of frozen spinach. 1/2 bag of lentils. I used to boil everything together, but it wasn't as tasty.
Great list! Thank you for sharing this info, so helpful 💕💯
Thanks for the info!
I disagree. Chocolate chips don't last a long time. At least not around here. They get eaten. 😂
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I don’t eat them, but my husband does.
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I loved this video
I heard Powdered Buttermilk needs to be refrigerated. It can go rancid. For Lentils, try making Dal and serve over Rice. Or use in soups.Also there are recipes for lentil patties/bean patties.
Lentils - leave them in water for about an hour and toss them with the other vegetables of a stir fry (rice, bulgur, etc.)
Lentils and rice, lentils and beans, lentil patties…
Lentil loaf. 😋 My favorite recipe is online at KevCooksPlants. My daughters and I adore it, and none of us ever cared much for meatloaf.
Great video!
Try putting lentils in a risotto or i make a pate and add 3oz green lentils. Also when cooking them in some water add a bay leaf it bumps up the flavour
Thank you for the explanation of product.
My favorite thing to do with lentils is to make lentil sloppy joes.
Only recently did I try canned beef. It was great!
(Abby typing) Lentils, lentils, lentils. There are many kinds and uses. I even watched a documentary on youtube just called "Lentils." You can use brown lentils with rice or make Greek soup and add apple cider vinegar at the end. You can use the reddish ones for pureed soups or even make bread out of them. Type in keywords like "lentil flatbread" "dal" "lentil tacos" etc. I watch Indian cooking videos for tips and tricks. Hope this helps.
Lentils, while I do make lentil soup, we also really enjoy lentil loaf (think meatloaf), lentil sloppy joes, Shepardess pie (think Shepard's pie but use lentils instead of beef. Tacos, enchiladas, bolognese-the possibilities are endless.
Love, ,love, love lentil and brown rice casserole from the Tightwad Gazette. I put a little cheddar cheese on top and yum.
Do I have to take the beans out the bags they come in?? As well as pasta??
Since I don't like cooking dried beans from scratch, I do the work all at once and can a wide variety of dried beans myself, so I have the convenience of canned beans. My pressure cooker holds 14 quart jars, and if I do two canners at the same time, I will be getting more than 20 quarts at a time.
Make a side dish of lentils. Stew some onions, canned tomatoes and lentils till lentils are soft. I usually add some pancetta or dry ham for taste. It can be a side dish or main dish if you add some fresh cheese, like cottage cheese and salad. You can put lentils in water for 1-2 hours before cooking to cut the cooking time
Sound like a great ham bone (or beef bone with a little bit of meat on) recipe.
How long is a really long time? Months, a year??
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Use lentils in place of meat or extender of meat in tacos, burritos or chili. You can also use them to bulk up a meatloaf.
Whole food plant based cooking sites and TH-cam have lots of ideas for lentils. You can make taco filling, lentil loaves, burgers, meatballs, etc. I use red lentils in pasta sauce instead of ground beef.
Ive hear adding lentils to stretch ground beef but I think my husband would object. It might be worth a try.
Blend lentils into flour, then sub part of the wheat in a recipe with the lentil flour. There are lots of recipes on the internet using lentil flour, which has other names in other languages/countries/cultures.
Dry Lentils can be ground into a flour using a coffee grinder. Get one strictly for just beans, no coffee unless you want every thing to have a coffee taste.
There are plenty of vegan lentil meatloaf recipes available online and in vegan cookbooks.
I read someplace that, except for acidic foods (tomato, mainly), the expiration date on cans can be extended by several years. Are you familiar with this?
I have a pet peeve re expiration dates. Why do we have to play “Where’s Waldo” to find them on products? Also, if it’s a dark package, don’t put the info in black (looking at you, Fresh Express salads).
Lentils can be cooked and mixed in to stretch ground beef. I personally haven’t done it but “frugal queen in France” does it in a ground beef recipe.
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Lentils can be made into wraps, like tortillas.
If I buy double cream (which i assume is similar to US "heavy cream"), I just plan my recipes around using it up.
Crystallize hone has syrup added to it. Not pure honey
This is good information. Thanks!!
Dried beans are easy peasy. Soak them up over night. Cook the next day for 10 min. Easy peasy
Some don’t cooks in 10 mins.
Lentil burgers are great 😃
About air absorbers: Do not use for salt or sugar, unless you want bricks and grate or chisel it to use 'em.
Would the honey need to be the raw, unfiltered kind?
I think thats best, yes.
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Some lentils can be sprouted and great to add to salads.
Where do get the heavy cream powered from mever hearde of that
I got mine from Amazon
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Lentil bolognese and lentil burgers