I am looking for good recipes using any kind of dry beans or lentils, including but not limited to garbanzo, kidney, white, black, pinto, black eyed peas, etc. With prices going up on everything I have been stocking up on dry beans and lentils and cooking them more often in order to help keep our family grocery budget as low as possible. Dry beans can almost always be found for less than $1 per pound and many times below 50 cents a pound if you buy them in bulk. They also store well for long periods of time.
It is recommended to eat dry beans fixed however you prefer a couple times a week for their fiber and nutrition content.
There are so many ways to fix them- including pureed with spices of choice added and using for a spread like one would use peanut butter.
Some wheat grinders can be used to grind dry beans to be added as bean flour to soups and casseroles to increase the protein (incomplete protein but still good protein) in many dishes.