Protein is often the most expensive ingredient of our principle meals; most often we get our proteins from meat.
By applying this food hack you replace the meat in up to two meals per week with dried beans and lentils.
For example, a cup of dried chickpeas cost me $0.64 from the bulk bins [...]
Even using chicken thighs still costs $2.28 per pound and assuming you cut back to 2 lb for the meal you are still 7.1 times the cost of the chickpeas. [...]
So now that I’m drilled it into your heads how much cheaper eating beans and lentils can be than meat. Let’s look at the costs savings to a family’s food bill. Let’s replace one meal a week with beans and lentils instead of meat. So that would mean you could take down a $15 meal with chicken breasts down to $3 or a savings of $48/month. Now if you did it twice a week that would mean an annual savings of $1200
Some “work” goes into it, warns Canadian Dream: soaking the beans in water…
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