Recipes for “Rice and Beans Budget”
While nearly all of the recipes posted on this website cost me less than $5 to make for my whole family, it’s the rice and beans recipes that can be made for less than $3 and $4 total…for the whole meal…for a family of 4.
The recipes in this list use only grains and legumes…like rice, quinoa, beans, lentils, etc. They are all frugal in nature and making them regularly will definitely help you reduce your overall grocery budget.
But before we get to the recipes…a few helpful tips and tricks!
Favorite Rice and Beans Recipes from $5 Dinners
- Rice and Bean Soup
- Mexican Bean Soup with Spanish Rice
- Dominican Rice and Beans
- Rotel Beans and Rice
- Slow Cooker Black Beans and Rice
- Coconut Rice and Beans
- Ranchero Black and Pinto Beans
- Red Quinoa with Avocado, Black Beans and Corn
- Brown Rice with Black Eyed Peas and Greens
- Red Beans and Rice
- Black Bean and Barley Soup
- Southwest Wild Rice Pilaf
One Dish Dinner Rice and Beans Recipes
- Fiesta Beans and Rice
- Spicy Quinoa with Red Kidney, Corn and Lime
- Four Bean Salad with Quinoa
- Lentil Minestrone Soup (coming soon!)
And here’s where you can find the rest of the “beans recipes, “rice recipes,” and “quinoa recipes” that are posted here on $5 Dinners.
Plus there are LOTS more in both of my cookbooks!
I hope this list helps bring a little creativity to your dinner table, as you continue on your penny pinching journey to get out of debt or make your financial dreams come true!!!
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Love that:) We are shifting back more to beans and rice to pay down the mortgage!
Good for you Denise! What a fabulous goal…blessings as you strive for it…day in and day out!
Erin
right on time! I appreciate having all this in one place! thanks!
I am not a mom… but I am a college student, and this has helped tremendously! I will definitely be recommending this website to some friends and younger siblings
Thank you so much!
I have had a problem cooking the small white beans. When I soak them some of them swell and some remain hard. I have even tried cooking them and it is the same – Try picking the hard beans out of a whole batch! Do you have any experience or am I just going to have to discard that bunch of beans. Thanks.
The recipe I will be making is Coconut Rica and Beans. I think that the ingredient combo in this recipe would be refreshing. Thank you.
I love your cookbooks and I love your site. I hope to to become more organized so that I can start a meal plan and actually stick to it.
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