11.   Add the canned beans, then puree this mess in your blender, in two batches.

12.   Busy cooks also will welcome the idea of utilizing pasta along with canned beans, chickpeas, black beans, tomato products, broths, etc., and leftovers.

13.   Canned beans can easily be substituted in almost any recipe that calls for cooked beans.

14.   Canned beans come in handy here, just as they do when combined with grains and other vegetables in main-course salads.

15.   Canned beans are a nutritious, instant addition to salads, soups and pasta sauces.

16.   Canned beans.

17.   Cookbook author Barbara Kafka, who admits she frequently uses canned beans, says that this soup gives good results in a hurry.

18.   Drain and rinse canned white beans.

19.   Drain and add to the canned beans.

20.   Her beans are easy to whip up with canned vegetarian baked beans, chicken franks, turkey salami, mustard, Worcestershire sauce and liquid smoke.