Vintage Recipe for Creamed Beans & a Helpful Hint

Well, this page in the show box had little notes scribbled all over it. The first is this recipe for Creamed Green Beans or Wax Beans.

Marie's Good Creamed Beans


¼ cup milk
¼ cup Mayonnaise
2 tbs Minced Onions
1 can Wax beans or Green beans



1 Drain beans and warm them up
2 Mix milk, mayo, and onion and pour over beans
3 Warm briefly and serve


Servings: 4
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes

Serving size: 1 serving
Percent daily values based on a 1500 calorie diet.
Nutrition information calculated from recipe ingredients.


Now being the ever careful dieter that I try to be, the nutrition was calculated with skim milk, low-fat mayo, and minced onion flakes. If you rinsed the canned beans or cooked fresh beans, I am sure you could get that sodium level down, too!


Amount Per Serving
Calories 36.81
Calories From Fat (2%) 0.67
% Daily Value
Total Fat 0.09g 0%
Saturated Fat 0.03g 0%
Cholesterol 0.31mg 0%
Sodium 110.98mg 6%
Potassium 135.83mg 5%
Carbohydrates 8.73g 4%
Dietary Fiber 1.47g 8%
Sugar 2.31g
Sugar Alcohols 0.00g
Net Carbohydrates 7.26g
Protein 1.49g 4%

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