It’s time for What To Make With What’s On Sale! This week at King Soopers, you can get Van Camp’s Pork & Beans for $0.39 in the Buy 10, Save $4 savings event. With Memorial Day and summertime barbecues just around the corner, it’s a great time to stock up!
Canned pork and beans can be heated and served as-is, but they’re easily dressed up with a few extra ingredients. Here are some ideas for using pork and beans!
The Pioneer Woman has a fabulous recipe on her blog that calls for canned pork & beans, Quick Southern-Style Baked Beans. These beans are baked at a low temperature with strips of bacon on top — delicious!
These Crockpot Pork & Beans look yummy too. Canned pork & beans are combined in the slow-cooker with pork chops and a few other ingredients. I use my slow-cooker often, and I tend to pull it out even more frequently in the summertime when I don’t want to turn on the oven!
Crockpot Pork and Beans: Image from Busy Cooks
Here are a few more recipe ideas using canned pork & beans:
Bean Dip – Place canned pork & beans in a blender or food processor. Add a teaspoon each of minced onion, ketchup, sour cream, and mustard; blend until smooth and serve with corn chips!
Chili Macaroni – Brown a pound of ground beef with some chopped onion and garlic. Stir in one small can of tomato sauce, a can of pork & beans, and a teaspoon of sugar. Cook a box of macaroni; drain and add to beef/bean mixture. Season to taste with salt and pepper!
Spicy Pork & Bean Salad – Cook some chopped bacon and onion until bacon is crisp. Place in a bowl and add three cans of pork & beans, a small can of green chiles, and 1/4-cup each of chopped cilantro and salsa. Chill overnight and serve!
Do you know of a creative way to use canned pork & beans? Please share in the comments!
Check the What To Make With What’s On Sale archives for more meal planning ideas!
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We do “poor man’s supper” 1/2 to 1lb ground beef, two cans pork n beans, salt and pepper, dried minced onion or onion powder. Simmer it and eat it in a bowl with corn bread, or my hubby likes it with tortilla chips. Comfort food and super easy ten minute meal:)
Franks and Beans: Cut a 12 oz. package of ‘onsalewithacoupon’ hot dogs on the diagonal and cook them in a pan with a little oil and a chopped onion. Add a couple cans of pork and beans, a little brown sugar, yellow mustard, garlic powder, powdered ginger and a wee bit of soy sauce (my Hubby is from Hawaii, and the garlic/ginger/shoyu/sugar thing is part of a lot of our foods). Let it simmer on low heat for a bit and serve over sticky (I like to use brown) rice. This is great in winter when you need warm comfort food, and I guess technically, it’s yet another version of beans and rice.
* We modified the bean dip by adding chipotle peppers in adobe- so good!! It’s like a southwest/ mexican hummus.
Our 6 children love Pork ‘n Bean Tacos!
Just brown 1 lb of your choice of hamburger/chick/turkey? and mix in 1-2 cans of pork ‘n beans. Some like it in soft or crunchy shells. Others like it in a salad. (It just really extends the meat, moistens it and adds a great flavor.)
Get some rice cooking – sautee an onion with 2 cloves of garlic – add ground turkey/beef to onion and garlic, brown meat – add the can of pork and beans to cooked meat to heat up. Serve bean mixture over rice. Simple and healthy, you can do a loooot of variations to this, i love beans and rice!