Well today I'm soaking some white navy beans.

Tonight before I go to bed I will put in the crockpot:

one pound of soaked white beans

two pounds of organic free range ham

a pound of peeled carrots

one pureed ziploc of spinach from last spring. About a quarter of a sandwhich ziploc of puree.

three tablespoons of hidden valley ranch dry dressing (buy it in the BIG containers not the envelopes... from Walmart)

a couple of cloves of garlic

I'll let them cook all night tonight and my house will smell wonderful when the parents get here.

I'll save off half of the ham for my son and my supper and have one good meal with that. The next night he and I will have ham and beans.

If the ham has any fatty pieces on it I will run that thru the food processor with some cooked beans and pop it back into the crock pot. You need a bit of the fat to season the stew. I don't waste ANYTHING edible. It always go back into a stew.



So the kids will get ham/beans/carrots/spinach all in one bowl. They will devour it. I'll make a pan of dark tart cherry cornbread to go with it.

I'll get four lunches and two suppers with one crock pot of this. We'll eat one monday and then I'll store the other three for future lunch.

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