Beans - canned, fresh, or dried (polish, soups, syrup, grocery store)

[almost3am]

We cook black beans about every other week. We use dried and a pressure cooker. I don't think we have made beans any other way...but have tried other types of beans, only to come back to black.

[brokencrayola]

I have a bean salad recipe I use where I use all canned beans, but I use lima beans, black beans, green beans, kidney beans, and white northern beans.

[pekemom]

I don't like beans, I wish I did, I know they are good for you.
I will eat green beans, usually canned, sometimes fresh though.

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by kyle19125

Canned beans are loaded with sodium

Not if you buy canned beans with no salt added.

[Almrausch]

My family eats a lot of beans. I buy them from the East Indian store in big bags. So many amazing dishes you can make from beans. From vegetarian chilies, to East Indian soups to Moroccan dishes.Would you believe I only have tomato paste in a tin...no other food tins.Beans are healthy for you ;the benefits of eating them regularly will be a definite a bonus in your future.

[CSD610]

We use all of the above depending on the meal, the timing and the weather.

[Ol' Wanderer]

I only use fresh or dried beans. Not just beans, but all food. There isn't a tin of food in our pantry for many decades now, and in the freezer, there are only frozen peas or corn, nothing else is store bought.

[Woof]

Originally Posted by Dirt Grinder

I'm a fanatic when it comes to beans - I rarely use canned beans. I'd rather spend the time and use fresh, frozen or dried beans. I love cooking Red Beans and Rice, Pintos, Pork and Beans, Bean Soup, and any other recipe that calls for beans using dried or fresh/frozen beans - that way I know what's in the end product. So, how 'bout the rest of you?

I use canned, since it's too much trouble to cook dried ones for one person. Plus it's cooler in the hot weather than spending a long time cooking them. In fact in hot weather, I often make bean salads, such as kidney beans with chopped onions and vinaigrette.

The only exceptions are sometimes a pot of split pea and ham soup in the winter, and very rarely lentil soup.

[Threerun]

Fresh 'fresh' is most desired, but dried second choice.

We used to have a big garden back in WV. It was over 100'x75' in size. We grew all manner of beans- green beans, black-eyes, butterbeans, speckled beans, peas, bush beans, kidneys or red beans, black beans.. Man one year we dried so many beans it took us YEARS to go through the inventory, lol.

We even grew peanuts twice. A little tough to do and you need a long warm fall, but for a couple years they did great. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING tastes better than home grown peanuts, dried in the shed over the winter. Man are they tasty.

Pretty much we get dried beans here, and that's okay. When I say 'butter beans' around here everyone looks at me like I have 2 heads or something, lol.

[TabulaRasa]

All of the above.