Quick Meal Ideas with Bush's Bean Products

Bush's Beans come in a few different bean varieties. I personally use Bush's Best Beans and Bush's Baked Beans quite often They are usually reasonably priced at between $2.00 and $4.00 a can in my local grocer for a 16 to 28 ounce can.

In addition to the price, one of the main things I love about Bush's Baked Beans is that they make a quick dinner when you don't have a lot of time or when you just don't feel like spending a lot of time in the kitchen.

For Bush's Best Chili Beans (Mild or Spicy), basically all you have to do is brown some ground beef up in a pan. You then just add the appropriate sized can of Bush's Baked Beans to your ground beef. Cook until hot; then add a salad and bread on the side and you've got a very quick dinner.

For Bush's Baked Beans, you can fry up the sliced up hot dogs of your family's choice and then add the can of baked beans. Cook until hot, then add a salad and bread for a quick dinner. This is also a dinner idea that pleases guys and young ones if you have either of both. You will get no complaints.

Bush's Beans even has a few vegetarian varieties. These basically include the chili or the Best Beans and the Baked Beans. You can add mock veggie ground beef to this and for the vegetarian baked beans; you can add mock franks to it. I find these varieties to be just as flavorful as the original. Vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike enjoy this as a meal; so it's great to serve as a vegetarian if you are having non-vegetarian guests over.

Some other very easy meal ideas are to just take your chili beans and the added real meat or veggie meat of your choice and use it as topping for a baked potato. It takes a little while to bake a potato (about an hour), but it doesn't require that you watch it the whole time. I find baked potatoes easy to make because you just pop them in and then take them out when done and they're ready to serve.

Just remove the potato; slit it in the middle. Add some butter or margarine, sour cream and your chili blend. This is also great served with some salad greens and your favorite dressing.

You can also use Bush's Best Chili Beans blended with your meat or meat substitute as dip for nacho's and cheese or as filling for a roasted pepper half.