The boys and I had a fun time together, doing dry meal-prepping, using beans and grains, to stock up in our pantry. Meal prepping is always fun especially when my laziness greets me (which is quite often hahaha) and I am having a hard time to decide what to cook for dinner (mostly, since for lunch, there is often only just me on school and work days). I would just grab one of the jar and cook from there, you know. Usually I would do it myself, but since it’s Summer break, boys at home, they always want to help this and that, thinking whatever I do is fun, in the sense that am playing with my food lol So they want to “help”. We prepared 10 jars of soup and stew mixes using whatever beans and grains I had in the drawer and we came up with these following mixes.
I say EASY as I do not like too much time spent in the kitchen, so with any of these mixes, you can just add broth, dry or fresh mushroom, bouillon cube of your choice, water or coconut milk or nut milk, fresh veggies, dry or fresh herbs of your choice, protein of your choice, and that’s it. Then you can just adjust the seasoning, like garlic powder and black pepper and whatnot, you know. Yesterday was cold here, only about +17 C, rained most of the day, so we used one of them jar and made this following stew that my 5 year old really liked. So winning, I’d say 🙂
Now, before you continue reading, I have to mention that I have an Instant Pot. This magical pot (hahah) allows you to cook your beans even without soaking them first, so that’s a plus for me, and it makes it easier when you feel like bean soup, no need to soak them for hours, just rinse them, drop them into the pot with whatever you wish, click soup and that’s it! To prepare all these mixes, I listed what I used bellow the picture 🙂 Per jar is good for at least 9 c of soup, while for stew about 5 c. This will be depending on the broth/water/milk and fresh veggies and whatnot.
- mason jars
- dry beans
- grains
- spaghetti or pasta
- mixed dried veggies (dehydrated)
- TVP (textured vegetable protein)
Here are the 10 mixes we prepared!
- 1/2 c white quinoa
- 1/2 Romano beans
- 1/2 c yellow split peas
- 1/2 black turtle beans
- 2 tbsp of mixed dry veggies (dehydrated veggies)
- 3/4 c barley
- 1 c red kidney beans
- 1/4 c dehydrated veggies
- 1/2 c Red Japonica rice
- 1/2 c yellow split peas
- 1/4 c great Northern beans
- 1/4 c dried veggies
- 1/2 c great Northern beans
- 1/2 c pinto beans
- 1/4 c black turtle beans
- 1/4 c red kidney beans
- 2 tbsp dehydrated veggies
- 1/4 c broken pasta
- 1/2 c white quinoa
- 1/4 c red chili beans
- 1/2 c TVP
- 1/4 c dehydrated veggies
- 1/2 c broken pasta
- 1/2 c TVP
- 1/4 c great Northern beans
- 1/4 c pinto beans
- 1/4 c white quinoa
- 1/2 c red kidney beans
For number 7, this is to be prepared as Hungarian yellow split peas stew (sargaborso fozelek):
- 1 c yellow split peas
- 1/4 c dehydrated veggies
For number 8, am planning to add fresh colorful bell pepper:
- 1/2 c chili beans
- 1/4 c barley
- 1/4 c great Northern beans
- 1/4 c yellow split peas
- 1/4 c dehydrated veggies
For number 9, gonna add canned corn and peas:
- 1/2 c Red Japonica rice
- 1/4 c great Northern beans
- 1/4 c pinto beans
- 1/4 c barley
- 1/4 c yellow split peas
For number 10:
- 1/2 c great Northern beans
- 1/4 c Romano beans
- 1/4 c black turtle beans
- 1/4 c red kidney beans
- 1/4 c broken pasta
- 1/4 c pinto beans
- 2 tbsp dehydrated veggies
Will be sharing each soup and stew once cooked, in near future 😀 Thanks for looking and see you around!
