First day without meat

Rossy2692

Good evening all,

Well we have had our first day meat free and i mus say it was a roaring success!! We has poached egg on toast for breakfast, well more brunch really, DD had the same before school, then DD had a vegetarian meal at school, pasta with a spicy tomato sauce, then i made a 3 bean chilli with brown rice for tea, all 3 of us agreed that we had not missed the meat! I feel so proud of us all.

Now my query, I made quite a big pot of the 3 bean chilli so i have quite a bit left, can i freeze it? I thought i had read somewhere that you could not reheat beans, I used cannellini, black eyed and red kidney, all tinned, is it ok to reheat these?

Thanks

Michaela x

ceridwen

Well - if it aint okay to freeze them - then I'm in trouble too - as I regularly do.

I also get virtuous sometimes and soak and cook a bag of dried beans and freeze them in several portions (ready to put a bags worth of them frozen in with whatever sauce I am cooking) - saves money on tinned ones.

floyd

Most beans freeze really well in things like chilli, curry and bean burgers, just defrost when you need them and heat through thoroughly

Gingham_Ribbon

Absolutely fine to freeze them. I do it all the time. It'll taste even better next time too - the flavour seems to get richer when left a day or so.

kittyscarlett

Yep is fine to refreeze beans in a made dish - have done so quite happily in the past ! and reheated them too.... I think its a case of being careful as with all cooked food to chill down and store/freeze correctly and reheat thoroughly.