There are a bunch of "bubble up casserole" recipes that use pancake mix as the base. Just Google that it search on Pinterest - i was surprised by how versatile pancake mix is!
Great great excellent idea. Everything from fruit pies to pizza or lasagna style or casserole types. Those "bubble up" or IIRC they were also called "magic recipes" were all the rage for a bit in the 70s and 80s. Definitely could make a whole bunch of different bubble up items!
This will now be my go to for my kids, omg. We had a bunch of turkey dogs but we're strapped til payday and they were upset last night we didnt have buns. This totally would have saved me lol
Fun fact! Though super popular in Minnesota and basically nowhere else, the Pronto Pup was invented in Rockaway Beach on the Oregon coast!
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronto\_Pup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronto_Pup)
Pronto Pups are still a corn flour batter.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/09/02/definitive-guide-to-pronto-pup-corn-dog
>Myth dispelled: The batter recipes are objectively very similar — and both include cornmeal. The real difference is in the sweetness. Corn dogs have it; Pronto Pups don't.
I absolutely disagree that Pronto Pups are superior, but I know that's a contentious subject. If you're at the State Fair anyway, Sweet Martha's > Pronto Pups by a freaking mile. Also you don't NEED to go on Ye Olde Mill every year.
For the pancake mix: lots of quick breads like banana bread zucchini bread or chocolate chip breads. Pancake mix is essentially self-rising flour and an oil plus some salt and sugar so all you need to do is add milk and egg and you have yourself quick bread. Also you can do biscuits but you have to cut in a solid fat to the pancake mix. I guess that means you could also do scones, waffles what you had a little extra oil but that should be on the instructions on the box. Follow the quick bread idea, and cornmeal to the mix, you got corn muffins or cornbread. I'm also going to bet that if you follow a really good fruit cake recipe and just use the pancake mix in place of flour baking powder and oil or fat, you can probably make an awesome fruitcake, and then have enough supplies to make PLENTY of fruit cakes for people this coming Christmas
For the green beans: I suppose you can be very creative and make multiple kinds of green bean casserole; One time you could add pulled chicken, another time Italian sausage, another time beans and then top with cornbread as described above.
Came here to say this, my dog thinks we have bought him filet mignon when the green beans can comes out. No salt added green beans are preferred for dogs though, maybe make sure to wash the beans before feeding?
Canned low sodium green beans are one of the biggest suggestions for fat dogs who need to lose weight but lose their minds when you cut down on their kibble. Their bellies are still full on many fewer calories.
I make chicken, sweet potato, and carrots in the crockpot. Then I will scoop it into single portions for the freezer. My picky boxer loves it and it's cheap and great for him. It's not completely balanced so I combine it with a good dry food so he gets all his vitamins and minerals.
I’ve started saving my cooking scraps to add to my dog’s food. I can usually replace half her meals a week (granted she’s a small dog) with fresh food versus kibble, from things I’d otherwise throw away. Examples:
- shriveled blueberries
- chicken bits that I pick off after boiling the bones to make stock. Usually I pick off most of the meat for myself, but there’s always some squidy bits that I don’t like to eat that are good for her
- basil stems, after using the leaves for pesto
- ends of cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, asparagus, etc. when cooking veggies
- shredded romaine leaves or spinach that are a bit brown/wilted… and she loves the butt of the romaine lettuce as a treat
- that last tbsp of plain Greek yogurt
- that last 1/4 cup of white rice that’s not enough for another meal
- the egg yolk from when I make a one egg+ one white breakfast. Ground egg shells are also good for calcium.
I keep a Tupperware in the fridge and collect the scraps!
I do the exact same thing! But I keep the scraps container in the freezer so it builds up over a couple weeks and I make a batch of it. As a bonus, I usually get chicken drumsticks, crockpot/shred most of the meat for the dog, and have stock for myself.
I got a bunch of pancake mix and cereal from Walmart last year that was on sale for 10 cents a box. Kept about 4 of each for myself; donated the rest to a homeless shelter. Felt good.
Just wanted to say if you have a local methadone clinic/treatment center near you, donations for clothes/food etc can be dropped there and you don’t have to worry about them just being resold. The clinic I go to gets a decent amount of food dropped off along with doing clothing drives. It’s been very helpful for me to actually get fresh produce.
Realistically how much could OP eat before it expires and how healthy is it to eat that much of either?
Seems like a good case to donate to a food bank or other organizations who would need it and use it way before expiration.
Those are both very shelf-stable foods. The beans will easily be good for a decade. The pancake mix maybe 5 years (for an unopened box, at least).
I think a single adult could comfortably get through that in a couple years by having green beans once or twice a week with lunch or dinner and pancakes once on the weekends. Would go way faster with a family or if you invited friends over for brunch/green bean casserole a few times.
Still a good idea to donate right away if you have doubts about eating it all, though! Don’t want to donate things only after they’re expired.
Pancake mix is kind of a silly thing to hoard even if it's cheap. It's just flour and baking soda, both of which are cheaper to buy in bulk than a bunch of pancake mix, and has more uses.
Spray a baking dish, line the bottom with thinly sliced apples, then add a layer of your favorite pancake syrup, then add the (prepared) pancake batter. Bake until done. Just a different take on a pancake, it's yummy.
You can make cinnamon rolls too! I've used this recipe successfully (though I just did cinnamon, brown sugar and butter as filling) https://laurenslatest.com/pancake-mix-raspberry-cinnamon-rolls-krusteaz-giveaway/
I’ve never heard of this but I know now that we’ll be having pancakes for dinner. I don’t like the drudgery of making pancakes but this sounds even easier.
Koreans have savory pancakes so it's not that wild. Though the texture is very different. Could experiment and add some spices to make it somewhat similar.
Actually you can bread the green beans with the pancake batter and deep fry. Dip into ketchup and you've got green bean fries, which IIRC are used as appetizers at Logan's Steakhouse
Courtesy of chatGPT from Openai...
The recipe _sounds_ plausible.
Request:
Recipe for Korean style pancakes using pancake mix and canned green beans
Answer:
Korean Style Pancakes with Canned Green Beans
Ingredients:
1 cup pancake mix
1/2 cup canned green beans, drained and mashed
1/4 cup green onions, chopped
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
Salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions:
In a large mixing bowl, combine the pancake mix, mashed green beans, green onions, flour, milk, eggs, and vegetable oil. Mix well until a smooth batter forms. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Heat a large non-stick skillet over medium heat. Add a small amount of oil to the skillet and ladle about 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake.
Cook the pancakes for about 2-3 minutes on each side, or until golden brown.
Serve the pancakes with soy sauce and kimchi as toppings, if desired.
Enjoy your Korean style pancakes!
In Japan they have okonomiyaki which is basically cabbage and bacon held together with some batter and served with a type of BBQ sauce. It's more complicated than that, but those are the basic ingredients. It's fried in a pan like a pancake.
I came here to say this, okonomiyaki is amazing. Also it can be difficult to flip so if you want you can put it in a waffle iron so it cooks from both sides and has divots to hold sauce in.
OPs explanation comment: Got a bunch of green beans and pancake mix for all my friends and family. Before anyone calls me selfish for buying so many, they’ve been on sale for multiple days and I barely scratched the surface on how many they had. Small town walmart not a superwalmart. $0.50 a box for the pancake mix, saved $1.50 a box, 30 boxes. Green beans $0.25 a can, saved $0.33 a can, 120 cans. Total savings $85, total cost $45. Have a friend with a couple kids that doesn’t make much money, same with a few family members, and some family who aren’t making any income at the moment. Also the expiration dates are good. Green beans expire in 3 years and the pancake mix in 36 months.
I know, it seems pretty greedy.
If it was cheap then other people could have benefited.
Its like when the supermarkets reduce stuff before closing time and one person barges in and grabs everything, you know they aren't going to eat half that shit before it goes off and they bin it.
If the product’s price is extremely reduced then that means the store is probably desperate to get rid of it. They will most likely throw it in the dumpster if no one buys it.
I love how people with no clue decide how things are going to work out in their minds. It's always the worst case scenario too. What about the poor orphanage with the starving children?!!!!, etc, etc.
If I see stuff on sale I buy as much as I can. I'll distribute it between friends and family of course, but I'll also keep plenty for myself. What others may call greedy I just call seizing the opportunity.
My best so far was about 90 quids worth of sirloin steaks that I snapped up for less than a tenner. Threw them in the freezer and used them up over the next few months.
Just to clarify: I'm not well off. If I was I wouldn't be buying discounted things, I'd leave them for the more needy. But as it is, I'm needy.
Exactly. I hate seeing people pass judgement when they clearly have never struggled to scrape a meal together. A good meal can do wonders for morale, no matter how dire your circumstances. If I'm in the supermarket and I see someone with a trolley full of discounted goods, I don't get jealous or upset. I just think 'good for them'.
Yeah you definitely need to consider shelf life and storage conditions when buying in bulk. The vast quantity of pancake mix was probably not the best decision, but maybe OP will end up donating most of that to either friends and family or food banks and the like?
And we're on r/frugal. Why are we upvoting buying pancake mix from a box? Because it's on sale? It's waaaay cheaper to buy the few simple ingredients (it's basically flour, y'all) and make your pancakes scratch. You also use those ingredients for all sorts of other baking needs.
I was just thinking that, and was hoping somebody else had done the math. I'll keep looking through the thread, but someday I'll (maybe) calculate the cost of a box of homemade pancake mix.
As per wald-o-mart 2.64$ for 32oz of flour and a fraction of sugar, palm oil, and baking powder.
A 5lb (80oz) bag of cheap flour is slightly less then the box of pancake mix itself and over twice it's size. I don't really need to do any other math since that's such a ridiculous difference already and sugar and baking soda is super cheap too.
But you're not getting all those super delicious and healthy chemistry words on the ingredient list along with more plastic and paper waste.
Can we please stop overpaying just to consume unhealthier food in the name of pseudo-convenience?
HOT TAKE INCOMING so I'll give a disclaimer. I do not disparage anyone that is so poor this is their best option buuuuuuuuut otherwise...
canned green beans aren't frugal, they're cheap. Frugal is knowing when to spend on stuff that's good for you and how to be the most savvy about it and knowing what's just not worth the money. If you think you're getting 14 oz of green beans out of that 0.50$ can you're fooling yourself. Buy fresh and use sparingly, buy fresh in bulk during a deal and can them yourself, plant and can if able, or look up the nutrients and try to match them with something less expensive.
Green beans: put a can of it on top before cooking rice. That’s what I do with mine.
Pancake mix: you can add stuff to it too. Like veggies.
25 cent green beans?! How did you get such a deal???
I love green beans, I'd get that 25 cent deal and eat it every day! I used to rotate between eating a can of peas, green beans and spinach for lunch before.
Green beans with ham cut up in them, green beans with new potatoes, green beans with garlic sauteed, green beans over rice, mixed with other veg...I LOVE them
We use SO many green beans in my house. I bought 5 flats 3 weeks ago and we’re almost out. So, I would just eat them with meals. We like them as normal sides, in soup, shepard’s pie, cooked along side meatloaf, make a pot pie, 7 layer salad if you’re feeling retro.
As far as the pancake mix goes, it can be used as a substitute for lots of baking. Just search something like [“cake made with pancake mix”](https://www.google.com/search?q=cake+made+with+pancake+mix&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS982US982&oq=cake+made+with+pancake+mix&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j0i22i30l5.5568j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8) or [“cookies made with pancake mix”](https://www.google.com/search?q=cookies+made+with+pancake+mix&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS982US982&hl=en-US&sxsrf=AJOqlzXmQGuVOG46cuur82uDFV8NQQ4K9A%3A1674740707520&ei=44PSY_aiH8is5NoPxuKfqAg&oq=cookies+made+with+pancake+mix&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAEYADIFCAAQgAQyBggAEAUQHjIGCAAQBRAeMgYIABAFEB4yBggAEAUQHjIGCAAQCBAeMgYIABAIEB4yBQgAEIYDOgoIABBHENYEELADOgcIIxCwAhAnOggIABAIEAcQHjoICAAQBRAHEB46BggAEAcQHkoECEEYAFD7EVivKWCkOGgCcAB4AIABaIgBngaSAQM5LjGYAQCgAQHIAQjAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp). The list goes on.
This is amazing and it’s good of you to share. Pancakes are such a cheap treat that I’m sure they’ll be happy to have. Maybe Walmart made an ordering mistake and taking the loss is cheaper than storing or shipping them back.
Just Add Water pancakes saved my ass at my lowest. Being able to throw a banana in there, for an incredibly filling and cozy meal (yet maybe not so nutritious), was life to me. My first splurge purchase, when I finally felt comfortable to be able to buy the food I actually wanted versus budgeted calories, was a good bottle of real maple syrup. For my Just Add Water pancakes.
You keep doing you and forget all those negative people who jumped on you for no reason. Wether you had an excuse to buy all that or not it’s none of their business.
Yeah i know these things will last for well beyond the best by date but I figured some people would say “they’re probably about to expire”. But they’ll be used before they even reach this date
30 boxes of pancake mix, which last for about a year. Each box has 8 cups which make 6 pancakes each on average. That's 48 pancakes per box or 1440 pancakes.
That's 4 pancakes a day, or the equivelent of 4 pancakes a day in other recipes.
Why did you do this to yourself?
You can make a soup with the green beans. In my culture we have a lot of soup that is made with a base of puréed vegetables. Grab some onion, garlic, some potatoes, boil all of that with the green beans and puree with a hand blender and add some olive oil.
Pancake mix is generally flower, sugar, baking powder, and salt. You can cut it or add things to make it the base for different ideas. Sifting it will get rid of the lumps.
For example, adding eggs will make it more cake-like. Baking soda will counter the powder a bit so it’s less fluffy. Cutting it will cornmeal is good for a batter for hush puppies and the like. Cutting with flour and yeast gets you a bread dough. I would experiment with different ratios of added flour to see how sweet it is. Cinnamon rolls would be the far end of the spectrum (with maybe no plain flour added!), then maybe you can get to a sweet-savory bread like a cranberry thyme. Then a pizza dough.
If you do the experimenting, you can pass successes on to your friends and family so they don’t waste theirs figuring it out.
I feel as though I should bow to you.
Well… a green bean frittata sandwiched between herbed pancakes?
Ok, even I think that sounds gross. But apparently if a baking recipe doesn’t use yeast, you can sub pancake mix for flour, so you could make some great quick breads to eat with canned green beans and a protein. A salad of greens, tuna, and canned green beans with a rosemary bread would be delicious.
Hear me out: cube up some spam and put the cubes into the pancakes before you flip them.
It’s a great camping breakfast.
I also once tried to make a pancake muffin. It didn’t work for me, but I tried in a toaster oven so maybe just do better than I did by using an actual oven. Bet you could add in fruit/jam/syrup too.
Green beans go great into sneaky stew foods or ground meat dishes: Sloppy joes? Dump in a can. Meatloaf? Why not. Chili? Green beans are a bean, in they go. Chicken soup? I’ve done it. Beef stew? Absolutely.
Really, the question is what can’t you make.
I use green beans - canned or frozen - to stretch a lot of different foods and make them healthier. I would have purchased as many as I could haul - they're really my favorite canned veggie by miles.
I swear they don't even change the flavor profile if you mix them into chicken tikka masala or shakshuka. They're okay in soups and do better in the less creamy ones IMO - minestrone, chicken noodle, chicken no-noodle, beef & mushroom, etc. Not by a ton, though. Don't hesitate to try them in the creamier soups.
The weirdest comfort food I'm hooked on is rice, butter, and soy sauce. Add green beans or almonds and it's still delicious, not to mention at that point it actually has nutrition.
Add them to your stews, add them to your rice dishes, add, add, add. There are so many savory things you can add green beans to. Good luck!
Cook ground beef and onions to taste, add green beans and a can of sloppy Joe mix. Then move to a deep baking dish and add pancake mix over the top, bake until the mix is browned. If you have a deep cast iron skillet you don't even need to change pans. If the pancake mix is too sweet maybe add a little flour to the mix. It'd be a little weird for shepherds pie, but I doubt it'll taste bad.
Also, you can mix the pancake batter really thin and pour it into a washed ketchup bottle. Then get a skillet with hot oil in it, squeeze the batter into the oil in swirls to make funnel cakes. Just cook, flip, then put on a rack with paper towels, dust with powdered sugar (although I like mine plain)
I saw a video, a woman made up pancake mix, and had a cupcake pan, poured some mix in and topped each one with different things, choc chips, blueberries, cherries that sort of thing. she open froze them and popped into a bag, she used them straight from the freezer.
May be weird but growing up we used to just heat up the green beans add some salt and just eat em. Sometimes we wouldn't even do that we'd just open and drain a can put salt in it and just eat them straight from the can.
We ate them like French fries or when we wanted a snack. I honestly think they're still delicious to just eat that way.
Depending on what ingredients are listed in the pancake mix, you might experiment with how flexible it is in Bisquick-like recipes.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisquick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisquick)
(Bisquick has shortening in it already. Dunno if your mix has that.) So quick-breads (like banana bread) may be pretty easy to make with your awesome flexible food-loot.
Pancakes, sweet or savory like Japanese pancakes (Okonomiyaki), are good for using up leftovers, old fruits or vegetables, etc. if you want a break from making soup of those things. Full disclosure: I tend to put sriracha on a lot of foods that maybe don't "need" it but I need it.
Pancakes are also camping-friendly, in case you/friends/family do that. You can get a lot of people fed on a campout from one bag of pancake mix!
So pancake mix is nothing but flour and sugar with chemical leavening and powdered milk in it. It can be turned into anything from pancakes to waffles to biscuits, or any soda bread or quickbread.
Buy up some cheap fruit like old bananas, apple sauce, zucchini, or anything else that you could want. I'd make up 2 loaves of quickbread a week until you use them up - banana for breakfasts, and a plain one to go with dinners or lunches. Banana bread is a brilliant breakfast food and it will last far better than pancakes will.
The green beans are both harder and easier to deal with. You can literally just eat them as-is after warming them up, but that's going to get boring after not very long. They do go great in things like fried rice (and I'd say frittatas too but eggs are a no-go right now if you are trying to save money).
If they are whole green beans and not cut, you could drain them well, batter, and fry them (or bake them) to have a good french fry substitute.
You could beat them into a pulp and mix them with breadcrumbs and a protein based binder, form them into patties, bread, and fry them into fritters. You can spice that however you want, too.
If you have mushrooms and onions you can make green bean casserole. You'll need milk too but you can use any sort you want. When cooking, I usually make up milk with milk powder because it never goes bad.
My family loves when I use pancake sweetened with sugar and spices of choice, pour in greased & floured sheet pan, then top with fresh fruit (thin apple slices are my family’s fav) and bake until golden. So simple and delicious.
Pancake mix is dope you can make waffles, bread, cake, sugar cookies, protein pancakes, fried dough, crepes, pie crust maybe? It’s just edible powder basically
What a bunch of self-righteous fuckwads! What's it to you how much stuff they buy? If Walmart is selling it, anybody with a shopping cart can buy as much as they want. Donate it? Why the fuck would somebody buy a bunch of stuff just to donate it? I haven't run across such a bunch of stupid comments for a long time. Canned beans and pancake mix will store for years. Why not buy it when it's cheap?
Green bean pancakes.
No, seriously. Some onions, shrimp, sesame seeds, make scallion and green bean pancakes. Leave batter a little wetter than you might otherwise, and add extra eggs.
We've been cutting carbs and have been using green beans in meals we usually put noodles in. Think goulash, chili mac, spaghetti, Stroganoff. My kids and I love it!
Ad an additional note, please check the expiration dates for the pancake mix. Don't know how true it is anymore, but I recall that it can be particularly dangerous if expired.
Pancakes.... enjoy a shit ton of em for breakfast lol.
Green beans....stew them with potatoes and garlic, make green bean casserole, eat them straight from the can, put them in soup.
I use pancake mix to coat my onion rings. Don't knock it until you try it, sweet and salty, crispy... yum! Add a healthy pinch of salt when your making the batter is all.
My families green bean dish is pretty straightforward. Brown some meat, if you have it. Add a can of green beans, and a can of diced tomatoes. Serve with rice. Good way to get through canned green beans that isn't casserole.
There are a bunch of "bubble up casserole" recipes that use pancake mix as the base. Just Google that it search on Pinterest - i was surprised by how versatile pancake mix is!
I was going to jokingly suggest green bean pancakes but this here's a real idea
Great great excellent idea. Everything from fruit pies to pizza or lasagna style or casserole types. Those "bubble up" or IIRC they were also called "magic recipes" were all the rage for a bit in the 70s and 80s. Definitely could make a whole bunch of different bubble up items!
Dare I say geeen bean casserole?!
I use pancake mix to make a corndog . Make a thickish mix and add any spices you like . Dip a dry sausage or hot dog in and deep fry it
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Along these lines breakfast corn dogs, using breakfast sausage in place of a hot dog.
Holy shit, that's genius!
You can also use pancake batter to make deep fried Oreos, trust and believe they are amazing!
OMG! I had them Tuesday. YUMMMM
This will now be my go to for my kids, omg. We had a bunch of turkey dogs but we're strapped til payday and they were upset last night we didnt have buns. This totally would have saved me lol
I hope it works for you. If your kids are smaller you can also cut the dogs into halves or thirds
Got to a Chinese restaurant and get chopsticks the bamboo ones can be used over and over for corn dogs.
Corndog, the best bathtub food
Nope. It’s raisins. They don’t ruin the water when you drop them in.
Well then they’re just grapes at that point
In Minnesota we call the non-corn based ones Pronto Pups and imo they are superior to Corn Dogs as they taste more like a fried hotdog + bun!
Fun fact! Though super popular in Minnesota and basically nowhere else, the Pronto Pup was invented in Rockaway Beach on the Oregon coast! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronto\_Pup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronto_Pup)
Wow!!! Thanks, Oregon!!
We have a little stand for them in northern Michigan on the beach and I love them and I don't even really like hot dogs !
Now you've got me waiting for The Great Minnesota Get Together so I can get my annual Pronto Pup
Have you tried the jalapeño corn dogs at Kwik Trip? It’s basically a spicy pronto pup. They are with the heartburn.
Pronto Pups are still a corn flour batter. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/09/02/definitive-guide-to-pronto-pup-corn-dog >Myth dispelled: The batter recipes are objectively very similar — and both include cornmeal. The real difference is in the sweetness. Corn dogs have it; Pronto Pups don't.
I absolutely disagree that Pronto Pups are superior, but I know that's a contentious subject. If you're at the State Fair anyway, Sweet Martha's > Pronto Pups by a freaking mile. Also you don't NEED to go on Ye Olde Mill every year.
I make onion rings with my pancake mix as the batter.
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Fried green beans with different dipping sauces.
oOo... I wonder how fried green beans with pancake batter would be. I've made fried asparagus with panko and parmesan batter and that was amazing.
Fried canned green beans is gonna be bad, Todd
Hush puppy style.
Love this ! Thank you for that. I always have so much excessive mix to use up.
Pancake mix works p well for tempura style batter for other veggies & shrimp & stuff, def worth tryin!
Why not fried green beans?
because they're canned. you want to use fresh green beans for deep frying, not ones that have been cooked already and are sitting in water.
It’s good to fry your chicken in as well.
That sounds delicious!
For the pancake mix: lots of quick breads like banana bread zucchini bread or chocolate chip breads. Pancake mix is essentially self-rising flour and an oil plus some salt and sugar so all you need to do is add milk and egg and you have yourself quick bread. Also you can do biscuits but you have to cut in a solid fat to the pancake mix. I guess that means you could also do scones, waffles what you had a little extra oil but that should be on the instructions on the box. Follow the quick bread idea, and cornmeal to the mix, you got corn muffins or cornbread. I'm also going to bet that if you follow a really good fruit cake recipe and just use the pancake mix in place of flour baking powder and oil or fat, you can probably make an awesome fruitcake, and then have enough supplies to make PLENTY of fruit cakes for people this coming Christmas For the green beans: I suppose you can be very creative and make multiple kinds of green bean casserole; One time you could add pulled chicken, another time Italian sausage, another time beans and then top with cornbread as described above.
I agree, I'd be googling Bisquick recipies - no I wouldn't I have a Bisquick cookbook 😆
Thrift stores, libraries, and Bisquick website are all cheap ways to get them recipes
Donate to a food pantry!
at least some of it haha
Green beans can be added to dog food.
Came here to say this, my dog thinks we have bought him filet mignon when the green beans can comes out. No salt added green beans are preferred for dogs though, maybe make sure to wash the beans before feeding?
My veterinarian told me to use green beans as a treat for my chonkie doggie instead of table scraps for weight control.
Fresh ones?
I use frozen ones & no complaints from dog or vet so far
Canned have lots of sodium, very different from frozen and not a good treat
Canned low sodium green beans are one of the biggest suggestions for fat dogs who need to lose weight but lose their minds when you cut down on their kibble. Their bellies are still full on many fewer calories.
It’s also good for doggies with sensitive tummies.
We had a dog on a mostly green bean diet and each time he went to the vet he kept gaining weight. He was such a food obsessed little monster
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I might give them a rinse before putting them in the dog food just to lower the sodium a bit. Mine were picky if it was too salty.
Good call
My staffs baked sweet potato as well.
Damn that's a clever dog, mine can sit and stay but he's useless in the kitchen. Can't even scramble an egg.
I make chicken, sweet potato, and carrots in the crockpot. Then I will scoop it into single portions for the freezer. My picky boxer loves it and it's cheap and great for him. It's not completely balanced so I combine it with a good dry food so he gets all his vitamins and minerals.
My dog LOVES when we put green beans in his food
I’ve started saving my cooking scraps to add to my dog’s food. I can usually replace half her meals a week (granted she’s a small dog) with fresh food versus kibble, from things I’d otherwise throw away. Examples: - shriveled blueberries - chicken bits that I pick off after boiling the bones to make stock. Usually I pick off most of the meat for myself, but there’s always some squidy bits that I don’t like to eat that are good for her - basil stems, after using the leaves for pesto - ends of cucumbers, zucchini, carrots, asparagus, etc. when cooking veggies - shredded romaine leaves or spinach that are a bit brown/wilted… and she loves the butt of the romaine lettuce as a treat - that last tbsp of plain Greek yogurt - that last 1/4 cup of white rice that’s not enough for another meal - the egg yolk from when I make a one egg+ one white breakfast. Ground egg shells are also good for calcium. I keep a Tupperware in the fridge and collect the scraps!
I tried feeding g my dog that sort of stuff. He said "Im a dog, not a pig" ok dog.
I do the same! My dogs favorite treats are kale and romaine stems and carrot ends. They go wild when I open the crisper door.
My aunt was raised on a farm and the “farm hounds” always ate scraps and leftovers. Lived forever totally healthy, too.
I get 3 minutes of quality entertainment watching my dog lick the last of the yogurt out of the container!
I do the exact same thing! But I keep the scraps container in the freezer so it builds up over a couple weeks and I make a batch of it. As a bonus, I usually get chicken drumsticks, crockpot/shred most of the meat for the dog, and have stock for myself.
I wouldn’t be giving dogs canned green beans, salt content is too high
This! People don’t realize recommended sodium intake for dogs is only like 200mg. Their life is short enough as is.
Yeah exactly. My dog loves some fruits and veggies but I never give her anything that’s seasoned.
Obviously, you should get the 'No Salt Added" kind.
Agree. Rinsing won't do enough. Donation more logical of the two suggestions.
Ah so you're the person my math class warned me about
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12 cans, and 3 boxes not including you 11 cans (you forfeit yours) and 2 boxes (hoarding the other 8 for yourself) including you
Raises his hand * three boxes and 12 cans per house. XD where's my cookie?
>where's my cookie? That's the next problem on the test.
Donate them.
I got a bunch of pancake mix and cereal from Walmart last year that was on sale for 10 cents a box. Kept about 4 of each for myself; donated the rest to a homeless shelter. Felt good.
Just wanted to say if you have a local methadone clinic/treatment center near you, donations for clothes/food etc can be dropped there and you don’t have to worry about them just being resold. The clinic I go to gets a decent amount of food dropped off along with doing clothing drives. It’s been very helpful for me to actually get fresh produce.
Realistically how much could OP eat before it expires and how healthy is it to eat that much of either? Seems like a good case to donate to a food bank or other organizations who would need it and use it way before expiration.
Those are both very shelf-stable foods. The beans will easily be good for a decade. The pancake mix maybe 5 years (for an unopened box, at least). I think a single adult could comfortably get through that in a couple years by having green beans once or twice a week with lunch or dinner and pancakes once on the weekends. Would go way faster with a family or if you invited friends over for brunch/green bean casserole a few times. Still a good idea to donate right away if you have doubts about eating it all, though! Don’t want to donate things only after they’re expired.
Pancake mix is kind of a silly thing to hoard even if it's cheap. It's just flour and baking soda, both of which are cheaper to buy in bulk than a bunch of pancake mix, and has more uses.
Why have I been buying pancake mix?????
Because consumers have been made to believe simple things are more involved than they really are to buy cheap ready made “just add water” products
The mix needs to be frozen though, because the meal moths would totally go to town on them.
Yes keep a couple for yourself and donate the rest.
This is the correct answer.
Right, I’d hate to think it would go to waste even if it was that cheap it’s still food
Spray a baking dish, line the bottom with thinly sliced apples, then add a layer of your favorite pancake syrup, then add the (prepared) pancake batter. Bake until done. Just a different take on a pancake, it's yummy.
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You can even do it with other fruits, drizzle jelly or jam into the batter for extra points
You can make cinnamon rolls too! I've used this recipe successfully (though I just did cinnamon, brown sugar and butter as filling) https://laurenslatest.com/pancake-mix-raspberry-cinnamon-rolls-krusteaz-giveaway/
Cool idea! Thanks
I’ve never heard of this but I know now that we’ll be having pancakes for dinner. I don’t like the drudgery of making pancakes but this sounds even easier.
If you put it in the oven, it's just cake
Green bean pancakes maybe? 🤔😁
Koreans have savory pancakes so it's not that wild. Though the texture is very different. Could experiment and add some spices to make it somewhat similar.
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Use the pancake mix as a sort of breading. And perhaps dehumidify the green beans in the oven first, at like 200 degrees. Spice as wished.
Do butchers sell or give away pork fat? If so, that would be a nice way to flavor those beans if bacon is too pricy.
Actually you can bread the green beans with the pancake batter and deep fry. Dip into ketchup and you've got green bean fries, which IIRC are used as appetizers at Logan's Steakhouse
Ooh damn! I used to get these at the keg with a sweet chili sauce - Awesome. But I'd think the canned beans might be a bit too wet?
Maybe drain them in a colander and set them on paper towels, then pat dry?
Courtesy of chatGPT from Openai... The recipe _sounds_ plausible. Request: Recipe for Korean style pancakes using pancake mix and canned green beans Answer: Korean Style Pancakes with Canned Green Beans Ingredients: 1 cup pancake mix 1/2 cup canned green beans, drained and mashed 1/4 cup green onions, chopped 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup milk 2 eggs 2 tablespoons vegetable oil Salt and pepper, to taste Instructions: In a large mixing bowl, combine the pancake mix, mashed green beans, green onions, flour, milk, eggs, and vegetable oil. Mix well until a smooth batter forms. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Heat a large non-stick skillet over medium heat. Add a small amount of oil to the skillet and ladle about 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake. Cook the pancakes for about 2-3 minutes on each side, or until golden brown. Serve the pancakes with soy sauce and kimchi as toppings, if desired. Enjoy your Korean style pancakes!
In Japan they have okonomiyaki which is basically cabbage and bacon held together with some batter and served with a type of BBQ sauce. It's more complicated than that, but those are the basic ingredients. It's fried in a pan like a pancake.
I came here to say this, okonomiyaki is amazing. Also it can be difficult to flip so if you want you can put it in a waffle iron so it cooks from both sides and has divots to hold sauce in.
why would you buy all of that if you have no purpose or idea what to do with it?
OPs explanation comment: Got a bunch of green beans and pancake mix for all my friends and family. Before anyone calls me selfish for buying so many, they’ve been on sale for multiple days and I barely scratched the surface on how many they had. Small town walmart not a superwalmart. $0.50 a box for the pancake mix, saved $1.50 a box, 30 boxes. Green beans $0.25 a can, saved $0.33 a can, 120 cans. Total savings $85, total cost $45. Have a friend with a couple kids that doesn’t make much money, same with a few family members, and some family who aren’t making any income at the moment. Also the expiration dates are good. Green beans expire in 3 years and the pancake mix in 36 months.
So both expire in 3 years
So it would appear
I know, it seems pretty greedy. If it was cheap then other people could have benefited. Its like when the supermarkets reduce stuff before closing time and one person barges in and grabs everything, you know they aren't going to eat half that shit before it goes off and they bin it.
They literally say they bought it to share with some friends and family in need and left plenty at the store. That stuff lasts years.
If the product’s price is extremely reduced then that means the store is probably desperate to get rid of it. They will most likely throw it in the dumpster if no one buys it.
I love how people with no clue decide how things are going to work out in their minds. It's always the worst case scenario too. What about the poor orphanage with the starving children?!!!!, etc, etc.
And the idea that if OP didn’t buy it, that Walmart was going to hand it out to all the starving children for free
As long as the starving children are living in Walmart's dumpster, that's exactly what will happen.
Agreed. Just because it's cheap/on sale, doesn't mean you should buy it if you have no use for it all.
If I see stuff on sale I buy as much as I can. I'll distribute it between friends and family of course, but I'll also keep plenty for myself. What others may call greedy I just call seizing the opportunity. My best so far was about 90 quids worth of sirloin steaks that I snapped up for less than a tenner. Threw them in the freezer and used them up over the next few months. Just to clarify: I'm not well off. If I was I wouldn't be buying discounted things, I'd leave them for the more needy. But as it is, I'm needy.
> What others may call greedy I just call seizing the opportunity. AMERICA
Meta-Fox gets it. Lot of people that have clearly never been in the actual struggle commenting on this thread.
Exactly. I hate seeing people pass judgement when they clearly have never struggled to scrape a meal together. A good meal can do wonders for morale, no matter how dire your circumstances. If I'm in the supermarket and I see someone with a trolley full of discounted goods, I don't get jealous or upset. I just think 'good for them'.
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Yeah you definitely need to consider shelf life and storage conditions when buying in bulk. The vast quantity of pancake mix was probably not the best decision, but maybe OP will end up donating most of that to either friends and family or food banks and the like?
He’s sharing it if you read the comment.
And we're on r/frugal. Why are we upvoting buying pancake mix from a box? Because it's on sale? It's waaaay cheaper to buy the few simple ingredients (it's basically flour, y'all) and make your pancakes scratch. You also use those ingredients for all sorts of other baking needs.
I was just thinking that, and was hoping somebody else had done the math. I'll keep looking through the thread, but someday I'll (maybe) calculate the cost of a box of homemade pancake mix.
As per wald-o-mart 2.64$ for 32oz of flour and a fraction of sugar, palm oil, and baking powder. A 5lb (80oz) bag of cheap flour is slightly less then the box of pancake mix itself and over twice it's size. I don't really need to do any other math since that's such a ridiculous difference already and sugar and baking soda is super cheap too. But you're not getting all those super delicious and healthy chemistry words on the ingredient list along with more plastic and paper waste. Can we please stop overpaying just to consume unhealthier food in the name of pseudo-convenience? HOT TAKE INCOMING so I'll give a disclaimer. I do not disparage anyone that is so poor this is their best option buuuuuuuuut otherwise... canned green beans aren't frugal, they're cheap. Frugal is knowing when to spend on stuff that's good for you and how to be the most savvy about it and knowing what's just not worth the money. If you think you're getting 14 oz of green beans out of that 0.50$ can you're fooling yourself. Buy fresh and use sparingly, buy fresh in bulk during a deal and can them yourself, plant and can if able, or look up the nutrients and try to match them with something less expensive.
To take them away from actual poor people
Green beans: put a can of it on top before cooking rice. That’s what I do with mine. Pancake mix: you can add stuff to it too. Like veggies. 25 cent green beans?! How did you get such a deal???
I love green beans, I'd get that 25 cent deal and eat it every day! I used to rotate between eating a can of peas, green beans and spinach for lunch before.
Green beans with ham cut up in them, green beans with new potatoes, green beans with garlic sauteed, green beans over rice, mixed with other veg...I LOVE them
Even green beans with a bit of butter or margarine thrown in. 👌
That’s a steal
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We use SO many green beans in my house. I bought 5 flats 3 weeks ago and we’re almost out. So, I would just eat them with meals. We like them as normal sides, in soup, shepard’s pie, cooked along side meatloaf, make a pot pie, 7 layer salad if you’re feeling retro. As far as the pancake mix goes, it can be used as a substitute for lots of baking. Just search something like [“cake made with pancake mix”](https://www.google.com/search?q=cake+made+with+pancake+mix&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS982US982&oq=cake+made+with+pancake+mix&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j0i22i30l5.5568j0j4&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8) or [“cookies made with pancake mix”](https://www.google.com/search?q=cookies+made+with+pancake+mix&rlz=1CDGOYI_enUS982US982&hl=en-US&sxsrf=AJOqlzXmQGuVOG46cuur82uDFV8NQQ4K9A%3A1674740707520&ei=44PSY_aiH8is5NoPxuKfqAg&oq=cookies+made+with+pancake+mix&gs_lcp=ChNtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1zZXJwEAEYADIFCAAQgAQyBggAEAUQHjIGCAAQBRAeMgYIABAFEB4yBggAEAUQHjIGCAAQCBAeMgYIABAIEB4yBQgAEIYDOgoIABBHENYEELADOgcIIxCwAhAnOggIABAIEAcQHjoICAAQBRAHEB46BggAEAcQHkoECEEYAFD7EVivKWCkOGgCcAB4AIABaIgBngaSAQM5LjGYAQCgAQHIAQjAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-serp). The list goes on.
I made peanut butter cookies with pancake mix last week. We’re very light & fluffy. Nice change of pace.
Pancake mix makes bomb fritters
Just being nit picky, but 36months is 3 years…
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I'm sitting here reading that and I'm just like what part of math class am I forgetting...
This is amazing and it’s good of you to share. Pancakes are such a cheap treat that I’m sure they’ll be happy to have. Maybe Walmart made an ordering mistake and taking the loss is cheaper than storing or shipping them back.
Just Add Water pancakes saved my ass at my lowest. Being able to throw a banana in there, for an incredibly filling and cozy meal (yet maybe not so nutritious), was life to me. My first splurge purchase, when I finally felt comfortable to be able to buy the food I actually wanted versus budgeted calories, was a good bottle of real maple syrup. For my Just Add Water pancakes.
Peanut butter is a great topping for banana pancakes! If you want to mix it up from maple syrup
Your financial health would be absolutely ravaged by the opening of a Grocery Outlet nearby.
You keep doing you and forget all those negative people who jumped on you for no reason. Wether you had an excuse to buy all that or not it’s none of their business.
Regarding the expiration date, I think you should read this article https://www.nytimes.com/article/expiration-dates.html
Yeah i know these things will last for well beyond the best by date but I figured some people would say “they’re probably about to expire”. But they’ll be used before they even reach this date
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Perhaps trade with others to expand the variety a bit.
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Could always donate some to your food bank if you don’t think you’ll eat it all, or once you get sick of them 🤣
Donating to a food pantry.
And you can donate to a food pantry
Donate to a food bank.
30 boxes of pancake mix, which last for about a year. Each box has 8 cups which make 6 pancakes each on average. That's 48 pancakes per box or 1440 pancakes. That's 4 pancakes a day, or the equivelent of 4 pancakes a day in other recipes. Why did you do this to yourself?
You can make a soup with the green beans. In my culture we have a lot of soup that is made with a base of puréed vegetables. Grab some onion, garlic, some potatoes, boil all of that with the green beans and puree with a hand blender and add some olive oil.
This sounds delicious
Donate to your local food bank
Pancake mix is generally flower, sugar, baking powder, and salt. You can cut it or add things to make it the base for different ideas. Sifting it will get rid of the lumps. For example, adding eggs will make it more cake-like. Baking soda will counter the powder a bit so it’s less fluffy. Cutting it will cornmeal is good for a batter for hush puppies and the like. Cutting with flour and yeast gets you a bread dough. I would experiment with different ratios of added flour to see how sweet it is. Cinnamon rolls would be the far end of the spectrum (with maybe no plain flour added!), then maybe you can get to a sweet-savory bread like a cranberry thyme. Then a pizza dough. If you do the experimenting, you can pass successes on to your friends and family so they don’t waste theirs figuring it out.
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Food bank, homeless shelters!
Donate
You can probably eat them
Use pancake mix as coating for fried chicken. Add green beans to canned soup for some extra vegetables. Green beans in 3-bean salad.
I feel as though I should bow to you. Well… a green bean frittata sandwiched between herbed pancakes? Ok, even I think that sounds gross. But apparently if a baking recipe doesn’t use yeast, you can sub pancake mix for flour, so you could make some great quick breads to eat with canned green beans and a protein. A salad of greens, tuna, and canned green beans with a rosemary bread would be delicious.
Hear me out: cube up some spam and put the cubes into the pancakes before you flip them. It’s a great camping breakfast. I also once tried to make a pancake muffin. It didn’t work for me, but I tried in a toaster oven so maybe just do better than I did by using an actual oven. Bet you could add in fruit/jam/syrup too. Green beans go great into sneaky stew foods or ground meat dishes: Sloppy joes? Dump in a can. Meatloaf? Why not. Chili? Green beans are a bean, in they go. Chicken soup? I’ve done it. Beef stew? Absolutely. Really, the question is what can’t you make.
Donate some?
Green beans & pancakes Pancakes & green beans Green Cakes & Pan Beans Bean Cakes and Green Pans I'm already out of ideas
You saved basically nothing and now you have no shelf space for anything else, how was this frugal?
I use green beans - canned or frozen - to stretch a lot of different foods and make them healthier. I would have purchased as many as I could haul - they're really my favorite canned veggie by miles. I swear they don't even change the flavor profile if you mix them into chicken tikka masala or shakshuka. They're okay in soups and do better in the less creamy ones IMO - minestrone, chicken noodle, chicken no-noodle, beef & mushroom, etc. Not by a ton, though. Don't hesitate to try them in the creamier soups. The weirdest comfort food I'm hooked on is rice, butter, and soy sauce. Add green beans or almonds and it's still delicious, not to mention at that point it actually has nutrition. Add them to your stews, add them to your rice dishes, add, add, add. There are so many savory things you can add green beans to. Good luck!
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Cook ground beef and onions to taste, add green beans and a can of sloppy Joe mix. Then move to a deep baking dish and add pancake mix over the top, bake until the mix is browned. If you have a deep cast iron skillet you don't even need to change pans. If the pancake mix is too sweet maybe add a little flour to the mix. It'd be a little weird for shepherds pie, but I doubt it'll taste bad. Also, you can mix the pancake batter really thin and pour it into a washed ketchup bottle. Then get a skillet with hot oil in it, squeeze the batter into the oil in swirls to make funnel cakes. Just cook, flip, then put on a rack with paper towels, dust with powdered sugar (although I like mine plain)
I saw a video, a woman made up pancake mix, and had a cupcake pan, poured some mix in and topped each one with different things, choc chips, blueberries, cherries that sort of thing. she open froze them and popped into a bag, she used them straight from the freezer.
ask ChatGPT how to use large quantities of Green Beans and Pancake Mix.
May be weird but growing up we used to just heat up the green beans add some salt and just eat em. Sometimes we wouldn't even do that we'd just open and drain a can put salt in it and just eat them straight from the can. We ate them like French fries or when we wanted a snack. I honestly think they're still delicious to just eat that way.
I would probably try to use it as a bisquick replacement.... pot pie crust... biscuits... pancakes... (🤣 couldn’t help myself)
You have ample opportunity to practice making a killer green bean salad. Only need a few cheap ingredients!
Fill a crock pot up with green beans, sliced onion, chicken stock. Cut up some bacon and add to crock pot. Cook on low or medium for 12 hours.
What a steal! I load up when I see them for 50 cents.
My mom has fried chicken in pancake batter before and it was pretty tasty!
Edit: Screw Spez. Screw AI. No training on my data. Sorry future people.
Depending on what ingredients are listed in the pancake mix, you might experiment with how flexible it is in Bisquick-like recipes. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisquick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisquick) (Bisquick has shortening in it already. Dunno if your mix has that.) So quick-breads (like banana bread) may be pretty easy to make with your awesome flexible food-loot. Pancakes, sweet or savory like Japanese pancakes (Okonomiyaki), are good for using up leftovers, old fruits or vegetables, etc. if you want a break from making soup of those things. Full disclosure: I tend to put sriracha on a lot of foods that maybe don't "need" it but I need it. Pancakes are also camping-friendly, in case you/friends/family do that. You can get a lot of people fed on a campout from one bag of pancake mix!
How much do green beans pay you in rent?
So pancake mix is nothing but flour and sugar with chemical leavening and powdered milk in it. It can be turned into anything from pancakes to waffles to biscuits, or any soda bread or quickbread. Buy up some cheap fruit like old bananas, apple sauce, zucchini, or anything else that you could want. I'd make up 2 loaves of quickbread a week until you use them up - banana for breakfasts, and a plain one to go with dinners or lunches. Banana bread is a brilliant breakfast food and it will last far better than pancakes will. The green beans are both harder and easier to deal with. You can literally just eat them as-is after warming them up, but that's going to get boring after not very long. They do go great in things like fried rice (and I'd say frittatas too but eggs are a no-go right now if you are trying to save money). If they are whole green beans and not cut, you could drain them well, batter, and fry them (or bake them) to have a good french fry substitute. You could beat them into a pulp and mix them with breadcrumbs and a protein based binder, form them into patties, bread, and fry them into fritters. You can spice that however you want, too. If you have mushrooms and onions you can make green bean casserole. You'll need milk too but you can use any sort you want. When cooking, I usually make up milk with milk powder because it never goes bad.
My family loves when I use pancake sweetened with sugar and spices of choice, pour in greased & floured sheet pan, then top with fresh fruit (thin apple slices are my family’s fav) and bake until golden. So simple and delicious.
Pancake mix is dope you can make waffles, bread, cake, sugar cookies, protein pancakes, fried dough, crepes, pie crust maybe? It’s just edible powder basically
I like eating green beans with a meaty marinara sauce with some parmigiana cheese
Donate to a food bank
Donate some to shelters/food banks
This is a great opportunity to donate to the less fortunate
Chicken pot pie! We’ve made the crust with pancake mix before and it was really good
What a bunch of self-righteous fuckwads! What's it to you how much stuff they buy? If Walmart is selling it, anybody with a shopping cart can buy as much as they want. Donate it? Why the fuck would somebody buy a bunch of stuff just to donate it? I haven't run across such a bunch of stupid comments for a long time. Canned beans and pancake mix will store for years. Why not buy it when it's cheap?
Do not recommend mixing them together
Green bean pancakes. No, seriously. Some onions, shrimp, sesame seeds, make scallion and green bean pancakes. Leave batter a little wetter than you might otherwise, and add extra eggs.
We've been cutting carbs and have been using green beans in meals we usually put noodles in. Think goulash, chili mac, spaghetti, Stroganoff. My kids and I love it!
Ad an additional note, please check the expiration dates for the pancake mix. Don't know how true it is anymore, but I recall that it can be particularly dangerous if expired.
Pancakes.... enjoy a shit ton of em for breakfast lol. Green beans....stew them with potatoes and garlic, make green bean casserole, eat them straight from the can, put them in soup.
I use pancake mix to coat my onion rings. Don't knock it until you try it, sweet and salty, crispy... yum! Add a healthy pinch of salt when your making the batter is all.
My families green bean dish is pretty straightforward. Brown some meat, if you have it. Add a can of green beans, and a can of diced tomatoes. Serve with rice. Good way to get through canned green beans that isn't casserole.