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Originally Posted by maleficent
Check the Goya aisle for beans -- (I beleive that canned beans are just as healthy for you as dried beans are - and just as frugal... and saves you a ton of soaking time.
However, if you do go the dried and cooking the beans route- invest in a crockpot- it will save your self hours of watching the pot.
Lentils are the one bean that doesn'tmatter if it's dried or canned... they soak out pretty quickly.
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Yes, and dried lentils taste better than canned lentils, in my opinion. I love using lentils in vegetable soups because I can just decide to throw them in, cook the soup a little longer, and voila.
Oh, and Giada di Laurentiis has some good vegetarian recipes or recipes that are easily adaptable to be vegetarian.
Here are some meals we like: the aforemention wraps, veggie chili, Mexican lasagna, Thai noodle soup (we adapted a Rachael Ray recipe, found here:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/reci..._30578,00.html), baked potatoes, breakfast foods like pancakes, French toast, eggs, and whatnot, Gardenburgers and tater tots, falafel, stuffed pitas, black bean burritos, assorted pasta dishes including stuffed shells, veggie lasagna, spaghetti with marinara, cheese raviolis with some extra-virgin olive oil, tortellini with tomatoes. We also like Asian/Indian foods, like the Thai noodle soup above, mushroom udon (a Japanese noodle soup), sweet potato curry, stirfries (with or without tofu), vegetarian pad thai, and making our own potstickers with vegetarian fillings (this is sooo easy to do--you just buy the wrappers at the grocery store, invent your own filling, and voila). We also like soups--vegetable soup, minestrone, pasta fagioli, lentil soup, black bean soup, broccoli and cheese soup.
So there are definitely a lot of things you can eat. If you'd like some recipes for some of the abovementioned dishes, just let me know.