Ideas for cooking Frugal Food

I recently read a nice resource post on the Moneyning blog: 12 Super Cheap, Super Nutritious Foods You Should Be Eating

And yes, for people who like eating cheaply but also well, these are great foods.  But too often, we read lists like these and wonder how we should incorporate these dishes.  Wonder no more!  I am posting the 12 super cheap healthy foods and recipes you can use with each in a lovely recipe dump after the fold...


Also -- a challenge to myself.  The next time I go grocery shopping, I will endeavor to find these ingredients and meal plan around them. Updates forthcoming.



Recipes for Individual Ingredients:
Sweet Potatoes: Baked Sweet Potatoes
Winter squash:  Butternut Squash and Pasta with Sage
Lentils: Lentil Pate
Collard greens: Kickin' Collard Greens
Kale: Baked Kale Chips
Cabbage:Traditional Russian Pirozhki
Carrots: Copper Pennies
Oatmeal: Perfect Oatmeal
Bananas: 1 ingredient banana ice cream
Strawberries: No-Pectin Strawberry Jam
Dried beans: Boston Baked Beans
Quinoa: Spiced Quinoa


Combo Recipes:
Delicata Delish (winter squash, quinoa) 
Banana Cream Oatmeal (bananas, oatmeal, strawbs opt.)
Banana Oatmeal Bake (bananas, oatmeal, strawbs opt.)
Strawberry Oatmeal (strawberry, oatmeal)
Smoky Lentil and Quinoa Soup (lentils, quinoa, greens, opt.add: kale, cabbage, beans) 
Greens and Beans (collard greens, beans, lentils opt)
Dried Bean ABC soup mix (beans, lentils)
Quinoa and Black Beans (beans, quinoa)

Butternut Squash Stew (winter squash, quinoa, carrots)
Quinoa with Carrots and Raisins (quinoa, carrots)
Quinoa Pudding (quinoa, banana)

Credits
Image: winter vegetables a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from gematrium's photostream