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[OldWiseGuy]

Just finished another batch of navy bean soup.

Two pounds of beans
1 medium onion
1 carrot
1 cup of diced smoked turkey meat.

Yield 16- 1 cup servings

12 gr protein
120 calories
0 fat

Cost per serving 28 cents.

A little higher this time as beans cost more and serving size is a bit bigger.

I dish it into bowls, freeze, pop it out of bowls and into plastic bags.

 

[Kevin Snow]

That sounds great. I should try it sometime. That's my kind of cooking. I would cook rice separately with it to add some more energy.

 

[dreadnought]

Just finished another batch of navy bean soup.

Two pounds of beans
1 medium onion
1 carrot
1 cup of diced smoked turkey meat.

Yield 16- 1 cup servings

12 gr protein
120 calories
0 fat

Cost per serving 28 cents.

A little higher this time as beans cost more and serving size is a bit bigger.

Just an onion?

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Just an onion?

You could add more.

 

[section9+1]

I live in a rural very woodsy area and the food outside the door is phenomenal if you educate yourself.

 

[Occams Barber]

Just finished another batch of navy bean soup.

Two pounds of beans
1 medium onion
1 carrot
1 cup of diced smoked turkey meat.

Yield 16- 1 cup servings

12 gr protein
120 calories
0 fat

Cost per serving 28 cents.

A little higher this time as beans cost more and serving size is a bit bigger.

I dish it into bowls, freeze, pop it out of bowls and into plastic bags.

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For your own health you need to vastly increase the vegetable content. One onion and one carrot spread over 16 meals is well under any reasonable dietary requirement. It sounds like a Dickensian workhouse diet. I feel as if I should send you a food parcel?

Is this what you eat all the time? Doesn't it get a little monotonous? I thought you were rolling in dough?

I'm not exactly a millionaire, but tonight's dinner will be eye fillet steak, salad and fries with half a bottle of merlot, followed by homemade (by me) chocolate pudding with cream.

OB

 

[Noxot]

I have grown accustom to eating processed burritos, jasmine rice, cheese, and homemade salsa. sometimes I will make some pinto beans and mix them with the rice. I hear that rice + beans = correct protein that you can absorb but I have no clue if it's true.

pinto beans are underrated. I think they are the healthiest bean you can eat.

 

[Occams Barber]

I have grown accustom to eating processed burritos, jasmine rice, cheese, and homemade salsa. sometimes I will make some pinto beans and mix them with the rice. I hear that rice + beans = correct protein that you can absorb but I have no clue if it's true.

pinto beans are underrated. I think they are the healthiest bean you can eat.

If this is what you eat regularly I'd be seriously concerned about the absence of vegetables (apart from the occasional bean) in your diet. A lot depends on what's in the salsa and how much you eat.

What is this fascination you and OWG have for beans? Between the two of you, you'd be producing enough gas to drive a small power station.
OB

 

[miamited]

Hi OWG,

I'm just curious why you freeze it in bowls and then put it in baggies. Why not just use a ladle to dish out what you feel is an appropriate serving and just freeze it in the bag? Of course, you want to let the cooked beans cool before you do that.

I like beans a lot. I often will put a helping of raw onions on top when I'm ready to eat a bowl of them for the added kick in the flavor. I will usually use 4-5 carrots and dice them up. I like more color in my bowl of beans. Honestly, you can add about anything to a pot of beans that are cooking. I will also dice up a couple of cups of celery. For black beans I often add colored peppers and fresh garlic chopped up along with the onion, celery and carrots. Throw in a well drained can of corn and you have Texas style black beans.

Beans are one of God's great gifts of food to us, but they do tend to make your backside talk back.

God bless,
In Christ, ted

 

[Humble me Lord]

Beans, beans, the magical fruit...;.

I love 'em, but they don't love me.

 

[Noxot]

If this is what you eat regularly I'd be seriously concerned about the absence of vegetables (apart from the occasional bean) in your diet. A lot depends on what's in the salsa and how much you eat.

What is this fascination you and OWG have for beans? Between the two of you, you'd be producing enough gas to drive a small power station.
OB

yeah I should probably start eating kale like I used to.

 

[Occams Barber]

yeah I should probably start eating kale like I used to.

I'm gonna take pity on you and OWG and pass on my secret chicken soup recipe passed on to me by an old Romanian Gypsy. I sometimes cook this in what we laughingly refer to as winter.

It's almost impossible to mess up.

2 chicken thigh fillets (one if your budget is tight)
one onion
2 carrots
4 sticks of celery
a stick of leek
1/4 of a red capsicum (?red Bell pepper?)
a small handful of green beans or peas
as much garlic as you like
a small handful of dried or fresh parsley
~ 2 cups of chicken stock (powdered is OK)
(The veg mix is up to you but make sure you have an onion or leek for the flavour and carrot for colour)

Dice everything up small. Throw it into a medium saucepan. Add the parsley and chopped garlic. Cover with the chicken stock. Simmer for an hour or so with the lid on. After an hour taste a little. If it's a bit watery simmer a bit longer with the lid off. This reduces the stock and concentrates the flavour. Alternatively add a little more powdered stock. (don't add salt)
Makes two decent servings. Add a sprinkle of parmesan and bread and it's Italian. With noodles in the bowl it's Chinese.
Enjoy.
OB

 

[Chesterton]

I'm gonna take pity on you and OWG and pass on my secret chicken soup recipe passed on to me by an old Romanian Gypsy. I sometimes cook this in what we laughingly refer to as winter.

It's almost impossible to mess up.

2 chicken thigh fillets (one if your budget is tight)
one onion
2 carrots
4 sticks of celery
a stick of leek
1/4 of a red capsicum (?red Bell pepper?)
a small handful of green beans or peas
as much garlic as you like
a small handful of dried or fresh parsley
~ 2 cups of chicken stock (powdered is OK)
(The veg mix is up to you but make sure you have an onion or leek for the flavour and carrot for colour)

Dice everything up small. Throw it into a medium saucepan. Add the parsley and chopped garlic. Cover with the chicken stock. Simmer for an hour or so with the lid on. After an hour taste a little. If it's a bit watery simmer a bit longer with the lid off. This reduces the stock and concentrates the flavour. Alternatively add a little more powdered stock. (don't add salt)
Makes two decent servings. Add a sprinkle of parmesan and bread and it's Italian. With noodles in the bowl it's Chinese.
Enjoy.
OB

Gypsies? Italians? Chinese? I'm disgusted. This post is sexist. Or something.

 

[Occams Barber]

Gypsies? Italians? Chinese? I'm disgusted. This post is sexist. Or something.

You forgot Romanian. I should also be talking about Roma - not 'Gypsies'. 'Gypsy' is now regarded as a pejorative term.

Apart from that I am obviously guilty of cultural appropriation by adding parmesan or noodles to an ethnically neutral soup.
OB

 

[OldWiseGuy]

For your own health you need to vastly increase the vegetable content. One onion and one carrot spread over 16 meals is well under any reasonable dietary requirement. It sounds like a Dickensian workhouse diet. I feel as if I should send you a food parcel?

Is this what you eat all the time? Doesn't it get a little monotonous? I thought you were rolling in dough?

I'm not exactly a millionaire, but tonight's dinner will be eye fillet steak, salad and fries with half a bottle of merlot, followed by homemade (by me) chocolate pudding with cream.

OB

I'm just illustrating the low cost of one food item. I have a great diet, plenty of everything necessary for good health. I grate a good pile of raw carrot into my daily salad as well as chopped onion, cuke, cheese, and walnuts.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

I'm just curious why you freeze it in bowls and then put it in baggies. Why not just use a ladle to dish out what you feel is an appropriate serving and just freeze it in the bag? Of course, you want to let the cooked beans cool before you do that.

I find it's easier to wash the bowls than plastic bags. Less messy to ladle as well. It also thaws faster as it is flat, and I only need two large bags. It also organizes my freezer better; fewer bags.

Beans are one of God's great gifts of food to us, but they do tend to make your backside talk back.

Actually I have no problem with that. I only eat bean soup twice a week. I rotate it between chili and potato-leek soup. If your digestion is good you will have no problem with gas.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

Is this what you eat all the time? Doesn't it get a little monotonous? I thought you were rolling in dough?

I eat very little, spend very little. That's why I'm rolling in dough.

 

[Quid est Veritas?]

Every now and then my wife starts doing large scale batch cooking and freezing everything. It inevitably then moulders in the freezer while we eat other things. Once in a blue moon a pack comes to light, as if a primordial monster or woolly mammoth freed from permafrost. It is what I would call a 'finely aged meal'.

I was away for holiday and found my freezer to have given up the ghost on my return - so they all went into the bin now.

Anyway, why have we forgotten the glories of Industrial Civilisation? True soup comes from the packet after boiling the water and waiting 2 minutes; or from the tin. They are often also 'homemade', says so right on the packaging.

 

[OldWiseGuy]

My usual breakfast.

Protein shake.
1 slice WW toast w/pbutter.
1/2 orange.

33 gr protein, 565 calories
Cost: $1.40 (the 1/2 orange is 37 cents current price).

 

[jayem]

Just finished another batch of navy bean soup.

Two pounds of beans
1 medium onion
1 carrot
1 cup of diced smoked turkey meat.

Yield 16- 1 cup servings

12 gr protein
120 calories
0 fat

Cost per serving 28 cents.

A little higher this time as beans cost more and serving size is a bit bigger.

I dish it into bowls, freeze, pop it out of bowls and into plastic bags.

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Sounds really good. Don't forget the fiber. Good for the digestion and may reduce the risk of colon polyps and cancer.

My wife makes very tasty bean soup using a bone from Honeybaked Ham. Adds several bucks to the cost, but has a lot of flavor. I like it kicked up with some hot sauce. Capsaicin gets those endorphins going.

BTW, we have a vacuum bag sealer that's great for soups, pasta sauce, chili, and the like. It requires some work up front to seal up individual portions. And the bags add to the cost a bit. But the packages will keep for months in the freezer. Then when you're ready to eat it, you just put the packages right from the freezer into boiling water for 15 min. or so. And the soup tastes like it was just made.