American beans recipes with 400 or fewer calories

Simple Chicken Stew

Easy and healthy chicken stew

Mixed Bean Soup with Andouille or Ham (A Gift in Jar Holiday Idea)

Make up your own dry bean and lentil variety or purchase ready-made. Aim…

Make Your Own Refried Beans

Why buy the canned refried beans when you can make your own and control what little extras you can add to it? And of course, the way to add the kind…

Southern Style Rice and Beans

We wanted to add a few ingredients to make this Southern style rice and bean dish a complete, balanced one-dish meal! Adding green bell pepper, peas…

Split Pea Soup

Tricolor Bean Salad

Mcdougall program recipe 8 pp per serving if 6 servings. The servings are huge. I like to eat the salad on corn tortillas

Fabulously Healthy, Edamame, Spinach and Garlic Hummus For Summer Entertaining

We’re loving this skinny dip. It’s loaded with such good-for-you…

Crockpot Lima Beans

My hubby says I make the best beans around.I usually have to take the beans off the table,cause he'll eat until he makes himself sick.

Jan's Chicago Chili

I have tweaked and developed this recipe over 30 years. I think you will love it, as does all my family. It is a complete, healthy and satisfying…

Creole Style Butter Beans

Butter beans (another name for Lima beans) are super healthy and flavorful. I've been looking for a simple and flavorful way to cook these, and…

Southern BBQ Baked Beans

This one takes a little time but it's worth it.

Pinto Beans

Got this recipe from juliecooks.com. I added avacado chunks as well as fresh diced tomato with shredded cheese and sour cream. My son said it…

Rice and Beans Southwest Style

This recipe is adapted from one I found along time ago in a Richard Simmons diet cookbook.

Easy Vegetarian Chili

Easy to put together and it has plenty of nutrition, too!

Black Bean 'n' Pumpkin Chili