I've been trying to save money to fund my jewelry business so I've been delving into the depths of my pantry rather than going grocery shopping. Tonight I came across a box of quinoa, a can of baked beans, and a bag of spinach all organic and from Trader Joe's.

I've always heard of quinoa's status as a "superfood", but have somehow never tried it until tonight. I just followed the directions on the box: basically just cook 1 cup quinoa and 2 cups water or broth in a saucepan. It's pretty flavorless so I'd definitely recommend using vegetable or chicken broth (I used vegetable). I also sauted some garlic in olive oil and mixed in half of it. It tasted great!I could not believe how much it made for 1 cup-I probably have enough leftovers for two more meals and still have two more cups in the box. With the other half of the garlic in olive oil I put an entire bag of organic spinach. The spinach on the other hand shrinks an insane amount...this little pile was the entire bag.

I heated up some baked beans to complete the meal. This dinner was delicious and healthy. I have more than enough leftover for lunch and everything probably cost me less than $5.