Prepper Rice and beans

budget friendly rice and bean dishes

fruit or nuts. You can also flavor rice with chicken broth,
vegetable broth or beef broth instead of water. Cook with
coconut milk, too, which will flavor your rice and help it cook
quickly.

Rule #4: Learn to cook beans from scratch!
It's important to know that brown rice takes longer to cook than
white; pinto beans take longer to cook than lentils. There's
much to learn! Cooking from scratch before disaster strikes is
important also because you won't want to waste food. Besides,
the rice and beans from your favorite Mexican restaurant will
not be available in crisis, so you'll need to learn to cook them
yourself. An ideal cookbook for new preppers on rice and beans
is by Peggy Layton. "Cookin' with Rice and Beans," is packed
with 165 pages of prepper recipes and includes charts on how to
cook the specific types of beans and rice. It's not a fancy book,
but it gets to the basics and well worth skimming for ideas.

Rules #5 and #6: Store enough water and fuel.
Beans aren't always quick to prepare —especially the dried
varieties, such as pintos and garbanzo beans, but indeed they
are a shelf-stable food that every prepper should store. Make
sure to stock enough water and fuel for cooking rice and beans:

Stock up on water. It takes a lot of water and fuel to
cook rice and beans, which is a problem in an off-grid
world. Dried beans will need to soak in water and cook,
and even if you soak them for 24 hours, it might not be
enough time (unless you like your beans crunchy).

Stock up on fuel. Beans take hours to cook, and your large
white propane tank will only get you five to ten meals or
so of pinto beans, which is why you'll want to weigh your
options. Invest in a solar cooker, which will provide you
with endless fuel. A solar cooker will have you cooking rice
and beans quietly, without the smoke from fire to attract
unwanted attention.

There are many ways too cook beans in an off-grid world.
Indeed you can cook rice and beans with a solar oven!

Rule #7: Have some quick rice and bean options
available.
There may be days when you simply don't have the energy to
guard the rice and beans as they cook for hours, or you simply
don't feel good enough to cook them. This is why you'll want to
have some quick beans and rice and here's how:

Want quick beans?
You can have beans fast if you plan for it:

Cans of beans in water. The quickest beans come straight
from the can when they are pre-cooked and in water. You
don't even need to heat them in an emergency, just open
the can and eat!

Split peas and lentils: While dried pintos take a long time,
you might consider other dried legumes, such as dried split
peas or dried lentils. Try:

Want quick rice?
Rice takes around 20 minutes to cook. Faster options include:

Cook rice with coconut milk! Coconut milk absorbs really
quickly and as a result cooks faster than using other
liquids. A happy prepper favorite rice recipe is from
Bethheny Frankel: her coconut rice is devine!

Instant rice. Uncle Ben's instant rice is a prepper favorite.
It might not be the healthiest option, but it's cheap and
quick.

Rice Sticks (rice vermicelli noodles). Consider stocking up
on rice noodles (not the ramen kind), which take less
energy to cook. Vermicelli rice stick noodles will take a
minute to cook.

Rule #8: Store your rice and beans properly.
A rookie prepping move is to keep rice and dried beans in the
bags they came in, which leaves them vulnerable to vermin! An
easy solution is to buy in bulk and you get the food bucket
container. You can also buy our own buckets and learn to use
mylar bags with oxygen absorbers to store your own rice and
beans.

Store your rice and beans using the H-A-L-T method of
food storage.

Rule #9: Get creative with beans and rice.
Beans are more versatile than you may think. Did you know you
can make brownies from black beans? The brownies below are
fudgy, sweet and made with black beans. They are vegan and
gluten free too. The kids won't even know you used beans in
this black bean brownie recipe!

Beans are incredibly versatile!

Grind beans to make baked goods. Another surprising
fact is that you can grind dried beans or lentils into flour.
Here's how to grind your beans into flour. This opens up
even more options for baking with beans as a protein
source. The kids won't even know you used beans in their
muffins, cookies and brownies.

Grind garbanzo beans into hummus. Whether dried or
from a can, you can make hummus from garbanzo beans.

Fighting Food Fatigue
Too much rice and beans? While budget friendly rice and beans
packs the necessary protein for the prepper's pantry, it's sure to
cause food fatigue if that's all a prepper stores. Even if your
budget doesn't have much flexibility, you can use creativity to
enhance your variety and soon everyone in your family or group
will find a favorite. Grind your beans into flour!

Try the rice recipe's below:

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Preppers often talk of getting together supplies of bullets, beans
and bandages, but when it comes to the beans part, preppers are
usually unprepared! Sure, they may have an ample supply of
beans and rice, but they don't know how to store, cook and make
the most of this prized protein source.

Rice and beans pack protein and this is a food that's easy on your
budget. Make the most of this important prep! Learn the rules of
prepping with rice and beans...

Prepping Rules for Rice and Beans Storage
Here are some quick rules for buying, storing and eating rice and
beans:

Rule #1: Learn to like beans.
The first rule of rice and bean storage is to love them! Over time
rice and beans can become a family staple. Rice and beans
together form a perfect protein for preppers, meaning together
they are a natural meat substitute for lean times. Not only are
rice and beans cheap, and but they are healthy and for these
reasons make an ideal food storage combination. Many preppers
admit they don't like rice and beans (and yet they really haven't
given them a chance). At the bottom of the page, you will find
inspiration for rice and bean combos to help you fight the food
fatigue.

Rule #2: Buy what you eat, and eat what you store.
Buying beans and rice in bulk is important, but give rice and
beans a try in your everyday cooking first. Don't stock up your rice
and beans food storage if your family isn't used to eating rice and
beans.

It is a basic prepping principle to buy what you eat and eat what
you store. If your family doesn't like beans, better option might
be to store pastas with meat sauce that your kids will eat! Your
personal guide to food storage, depends on you and your family,
not some book, chart or Web site which tells you how much beans
and rice you should buy.

Having said this, it's important to know that rice and beans are
among the most shelf-stable foods you can buy, which is why
preppers put them up!

Rule #3: Stock seasonings for your dried beans.
Variety is the spice of life and this pertains especially to serving
rice and beans to your family.

Flavor your beans! A tasty way to add flavor to your dried pinto
beans is pinto bean seasoning:

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Beans when combined with rice make a complete protein. Just be
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