Saturday, January 8, 2011

Freezing beans!

So after a few lessons from http://everydayfoodstorage.net/f/legumes, I got about 4 pounds of beans and got them ready to freeze today.  I bought navy, red, and northern beans.  These are beans that we typically eat a lot of.  I did get the navy, because everyday food storage

 

http://missvickie.com/howto/beans/howtobeantypes.html

 

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When I froze them, I put them into 1 cup portions in sandwich bags.  I then put the sandwich bags in a 1 gallon freezer bag.  This way, they are all together and I can be cheap and not have to waste a freezer bag on each portion.

 

Now that I am posting this, I am making my second batch.  We already ran through this one.

~trish

2 comments:

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  2. Trish, do you have an suggestions for good bean recipes? Thru the produce co-op we're part of, I purchased 4 pounds of cranberry beans but no idea what to do with them.

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