Bulk Foods

[Cheshire]

What are your favorite ways to prepare bulk foods? What's the cheapest meal you can make?

[snowbunny]

We do a lot of bean soups with salad and bread. It simple, easy, nourishing and cheap.

[Benji'sMom]

Originally Posted by Cheshire

What are your favorite ways to prepare bulk foods? What's the cheapest meal you can make?

The cheapest meal I can make is probably rice (brown rice for 83c a lb, white rice would be cheaper) with pinto beans for 54c a lb. That's $1.37 and that makes more than one serving for each person.

or use the pinto beans to make refried beans and serve that with homemade tortillas or homemade fry bread (like a fry bread pizza, or fry bread taco, yummy!) I use whole wheat flour, 45c a lb and I bake with dry milk where milk is called for, at 60c a lb.