While hardly high cuisine, I recently gave a couple of Augason Farms' dry canned foods a try - the "black bean burger" mix is nothing anyone would mistake for real meat and the protein per total unit of measure is lower, but it's not terrible in its own right and if cubed after being fried lightly as a patty and mixed into pasta or casserole style dishes it serves tolerably well. I haven't tried that with a lasagna, but I would expect similar results. Customer reviews suggest it's a good filling material for wrap or pasta-pouch style dishes, particularly one that normally include beans like burritos and the like. Using it to stretch ground beef or pork up to about double also works tolerably well. Mixing it dry in equal measures with their "Creamy Potato Soup" mix and then hydrating to a medium-stiff dough consistency before microwaving it 5-10 minutes (or probably baking it but for longer) results in a pretty decent meatless-loaf, too. The spud soup is really quite good on its own, though I find it better with a bit more potato, usually by way of crushing some "kettle style" potato chips and tossing them in before adding boiling water as they're cheaper by the ounce than any brand of canned dehydrated potato slices, dices, or shreds I've yet found, and as long as you put the sealed bags in something decently durable and rodent-resistant they will last a good while in the emergency supplies corner of the pantry, if not the nominal 25-year shelf life of the actual canned goods. I haven't tried them, but I expect that the dried peas, diced carrots, or broccoli would also work well to fill out the soup if desired, as the "bread and roll mix" and/or "cheese sauce mix" for doing actual ersatz cheeseburgers from canned supplies.
As usual, "servings" according to the label seem to be under the assumption that it will be about a third to a quarter of what an actual adult will want for an actual meal, and in terms of size think of a typical anemic fast food burger for "one patty" from the black bean mix per instructions. Note that as it is indeed legume based it is likely to cause gas, though it also contains sufficient oats to keep the results dry for the most part. Supplement that with the digestive remedy of choice if you feel it to be wise.
Amazon US listings:
black beam burger mix
potato soup mix
If you prefer to avoid Amazon or are located outside the US and feel curious there should be plenty of information to search them up from those pages, though if there's a brick & mortar shop of the right sort you'd be looking in the cans there might be almost plain white labels with a thin green "waterline" pinstripe instead of the red lower half, as they seem to be going through a packaging change.
It's too early to tell exactly how bad things will get under Trump, but there's certain to be at least some significant price increases on farm produce like meats and vegetables usually handled by the migrant workers he want's to expel, so it can't hurt to lay in a supply of stuff that'll keep before that happens just in case the answer is worse than we'd like... and if nothing major comes of it, at least there's something novel to pop open and fry up while shrugging at the nothingburger party, rather than nothingburgers at the apocalypse party.
As usual, "servings" according to the label seem to be under the assumption that it will be about a third to a quarter of what an actual adult will want for an actual meal, and in terms of size think of a typical anemic fast food burger for "one patty" from the black bean mix per instructions. Note that as it is indeed legume based it is likely to cause gas, though it also contains sufficient oats to keep the results dry for the most part. Supplement that with the digestive remedy of choice if you feel it to be wise.
Amazon US listings:
black beam burger mix
potato soup mix
If you prefer to avoid Amazon or are located outside the US and feel curious there should be plenty of information to search them up from those pages, though if there's a brick & mortar shop of the right sort you'd be looking in the cans there might be almost plain white labels with a thin green "waterline" pinstripe instead of the red lower half, as they seem to be going through a packaging change.
It's too early to tell exactly how bad things will get under Trump, but there's certain to be at least some significant price increases on farm produce like meats and vegetables usually handled by the migrant workers he want's to expel, so it can't hurt to lay in a supply of stuff that'll keep before that happens just in case the answer is worse than we'd like... and if nothing major comes of it, at least there's something novel to pop open and fry up while shrugging at the nothingburger party, rather than nothingburgers at the apocalypse party.
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus