The Simple Life: Beans and Rice
I have read many frugal experts who tout the benefits of beans and rice. The dish is cheap, easy, and healthy, especially when using brown rice. The only problem was that Tim and I couldn’t find a recipe that tasted good. Then Tim struck gold.
He found this recipe online that was quick, cheap, yummy and we had all the ingredients on hand (with slight modifications). We served it to our friends who enjoyed it as well. We often put it in homemade tortillas with salsa, cheese, sour cream, lettuce and tomatoes or whatever we have on hand. But these aren’t necessary and invariably drive the cost per serving up.
To make this recipe even cheaper we don’t buy canned beans but instead soak and cook dry beans ahead of time then divide them into ziplock bags and freeze them until needed. I’ll even save some of the water I cooked them in with some beans to flavor the beans and rice. We also have used kidney beans in this recipe. We don’t purchase instant rice either so I’ll throw either white or brown rice in our rice cooker and add it to the recipe at the end.
Although this recipe is simple we enjoy how easy and versatile it is to make. Since it makes a lot we always have leftovers for lunch or another dinner. Now that we found a recipe we enjoy I too can tout the benefits of beans and rice.
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