Beans- the magical fruit.

Beans beans those wonderful things, 
the more you eat, the more you..... well I won't go there, but let's just say the better you'll feel. Beans have so much nutrition packed inside them yet so many of us are not enjoying the fiber goodness. 

I know we all have some sort of bean sitting on our food storage shelf.  Just sitting there making us feel good because hey we have food on our shelf.  But would you really eat just plain beans? 

So what can we do with that 10 year old can of beans?  I know many of us are thinking "I'll make chili", but what if your like me and chili ain't your thing.  Here is a great idea to use up tons of beans, plus make your food storage budget go a little farther.


Grind your beans in a wheat grinder!  Yup you heard me. Make flour out of your beans. For me this rocked my cooking world. Why you ask?  Because I get all the nutritional value, but without the bean texture.  I'm a texture girl and beans are not my favorite thing to put in food.   

So what can you use bean flour for?  My favorite thing is to make cream of chicken soup (or what ever cream based can soup you want)  Here is the recipe.

1 1/4 Cups White Bean Flour
4 Tablespoons Chicken Soup Base


Mix together and store in cool place.
To replace a can of Cream Of Chicken Soup (condensed) use 1/3 cup of mix and 1 3/4 cups cool water. Bring to a boil and use in your recipe just like you would use the canned soup.

I now use this whenever a recipe calls for a can a cream soup.  It's fantastic!  I also have used a mushroom soup base and a vegetable soup base to make different flavors.  Make sure to grind enough beans to keep some on hand so that every time you need it you don't have to break out the wheat grinder. 

Bean flour is also a great thickener.  You can use it to thicken gravy, cheese sauces, or any food you need to thicken.  Like I said before you get all the nutrition that our little friend the bean has to offer!