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30-Minute Baked Beans

30-Minute Baked Beans

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Canned baked beans can have 500 mg of sodium in a miserly 1/2 cup serving, contain caramel color, and come in BPA lined cans. Traditional, homemade baked beans using dry beans are delicious, but take hours to prepare and bake. 30-Minute Baked Beans uses canned beans (buy organic to avoid ...

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30-Minute Chili With Beans-4582

30-Minute Homemade Chili With Beans

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Traditional homemade chili can take hours of slow simmering to produce its bold flavor and fully cook tougher cuts of meat like cubed chuck, but when you have craving for chili and don’t want to spend hours try this easy 30-Minute Homemade Chili With Beans receive. It’s made with ground meat, ...

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30-Minute BBQ Beans

30-Minute BBQ Beans

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Canned baked and BBQ beans have 500 mg of sodium or more in a miserly 1/2 cup serving, can contain caramel color, and come in BPA lined cans. Traditional, homemade baked beans using dry beans are delicious, but take hours to prepare and bake. This 30-Minute BBQ Beans recipe, uses ...

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Black Bean and Corn Salsa


This colorful, hearty Black Bean and Corn Salsa can be be eaten with corn tortilla chips, as a condiment for seafood tacos, eggs, and breakfast burritos or for taco salads and nachos. One-quarter cup (4 tbps. 60 g) has about 80 calories, and 4 grams each of dietary fiber and ...

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Homemade Baked Beans

Baked Beans

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Baked Beans are high in fiber and protein and goes well with meat, fish or poultry, and are a popular side dish for grilled foods. This Baked Bean recipe uses dried beans and takes over 4 hours of baking. Recipes for 30-minute baked beans using canned beans are listed below. ...

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Cooking Dry Beans

By: Daniel | Comments Off on Cooking Dry Beans | | Category: Cook's Tips, Diet, General Information | Tags : , ,

Dry Pinto Beans

Advantages of Dry Beans Canned beans are convenient, but there are several reasons for buying and cooking dry beans instead of canned beans: Lower Cost More Variety Significantly Less Sodium BPA Free With dry beans you get just beans and no chemicals, additives or preservatives. Beans are an excellent source of ... more

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Homemade Chicken Nachos

Chicken Nachos

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Nachos are a popular American appetizer served by many Mexican and casual dining restaurants in the United States. The base is usually yellow corn tortilla chips top with cheese and a variety of ingredients ranging from jalapeño peppers to a smorgasbord of peppers, cheeses, meats, salsa, guacamole and sour cream. ...

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30 Minute Pasta and Fagioli

30 Minute Fagioli e Pasta (Beans & Macaroni)


30 Minute Fagioli e Pasta (Beans & Macaroni) uses canned or cooked beans to reduce preparation and cooking time. This southern Italian version of beans with macaroni is pasta with beans and sauce versus Italian restaurant bean soup of the same name. Like most Italian foods, there as many version of this ...

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Fagioli e Pasta (beans and macaroni)

Beans and Pasta (Fagioli e Pasta)


For many Americans Beans and Pasta (Fagioli e Pasta or Pasta Fagoli) is a bean and macaroni soup. For Southern Italians Beans and Pasta is a hearty mixture of cooked beans, elbow macaroni, and tomato sauce. The sauce can have meat or be meatless for a vegetarian version. Whether you ...

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Meat and Vegetable Soup

Meat Minestrone Soup


Meat Minestrone Soup is one of my favorite soups. A 16-ounce serving has about 400 calories, 9 grams of fiber, and 19 grams of protein. Although this recipe has a long list of ingredients, you can prepare and cook it in about one hour. Adding pasta is optional. When you ...

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