It has 15 different types of beans in it and it can be bought pre packaged. 15 different beans!
Lies, I count way more than 15 beans!
YES! Make it with vegetable stock (and the vegan “ham” flavoring included) and it’s especially tasty.
I gotta make this again soon
why should i know? i like some beans but not all beans
I fucking love these.
I just throw the seasoning packet away, never used it at all. Just use the bean mix itself, it’s really good, HOWEVER be aware that some of the “beans” are actually lentils, and they break down into a mush faster than others.
If you cook the beans a long time in your soup as I do then it gets REALLY bad looking. We call it “ugly soup” because it’s ugly AF but DELICIOUS.
Edit: I’ve NEVER found a rock in these also, not once in the dozens of bags, maybe hundreds, I’ve used.
I once forgot about it in a crock pot using the fast cook method and basically boiled the whole thing into mush. It made for a delicious bean dip.
That parallels my experience. Great bean mix, haven’t found a stone yet. The seasoning pack included sounds gross to me so I bin it. This mix is magic in an instant pot with your own mix of spices and whatever liquid base you like. Takes just over an hour to go from prepping to eating.
I found a rock in a bag of beans twice in my life. My mother found one when I was a child and made sure I saw why we look through them first.
Then as an adult. Once. I got to go AHA and grab it.
I’ve seen blood in chicken eggs much more commonly!
Maybe the screen process wasn’t as good when mother had to look. Small rocks are just going to be something that gets picked up occasionally if they’re being machine harvested.
Care to share what you do for seasoning instead? Every time I’ve tried (not many) it comes out disappointing.
I had to buy beans at Walmart the other day… I don’t normally get them there. I was looking for white beans. They had this brand in both fhe 15soup pack, and they also had a white bean pack. I saw in the white bean pack, they add “ham flavoring”. I was so grossed out, what is ham flavoring in dried beans? I had to buy the great calue brand. No ham flavoring added.
Dude, Bean soup cooked with leftover ham is amazing.
Right and this is fine. But adding “ham flavorings” to a bag of dried beans weirded me out.
How the fuck does one obtain the ham essence, and then apply it to dried beans?
It’s vegan, not actually made from ham
True. The ham seasoning packed is definitely lacking
Just use real ham
By adding artificial ham flavoring. This stuff lists itself as being vegan. Not sure about the walmart beans though.
The Walmart ones were just plain beans
Pigs are incredibly intelligent animals. You shouldn’t eat them.
Don’t kid yourself ChimpChamp22, if a pig ever got the chance he’d eat you and everyone you cared about.
I mean, yeah. Not even a joke.
Gross. Lots of people are disgusted by actions that worsen the climate catastrophe
Most serious vegans understand something about the differential in agency that comes with even relative poverty. The books that sort of founded the movement take this into account.
And there is a LOT of relative poverty in places you don’t normally expect, especially with housing costs as they are around most of the Capitalist world.
Lol wut. Beans are super cheap. Vegan food is literally cheaper then products from the animal industry that is causing climate catastrophe
Easy to say when you have choices in where to shop. Lack of transportation and odd work schedules destroy that Real Quick. As does rural life, or life in an urban food desert.
There is more to poverty than lack of money - there is also frequently a lack of time away from work for serious food preparation. And idk if you’ve looked at vegan processed food lately but uh… The opposite holds true about their price.
No one can survive on crock pot beans alone.
Once again, 100 companies are responsible for how much of the emissions? Your consumer choices are not a Revolution that will save the world. Consumer choice is a poor substitute for activism that has been sold to you by your Masters.
Then dismantle the corporate infrastructure that got us here, stop pointing fingers at your fellow man just trying to survive.
Stop thinking about left and right start thinking about up and down.
Up and Down is over, we need to be thinking in and out.
Oh I know.
Give me a semi–plausible reason why these beans need to be unmixed into 15 separate piles and I will give it all of my focus.
yeah i have to unmix my skittles its annoying
They must be color-coded.
Gotta make an even mix!
i guess to cook each of the beans just the perfect amount of time
Oh hey Hurst! They package these in my city. Back in college I used to make a pot of these and a huge batch of cornbread regularly all winter. Good memories.
Link to article?
We’ve had 15 bean “soup” on rotation for many years. Our recipe is yummy, feeds a large family for several meals, and it’s definitely affordable.
False advertising. There are way more than 15 beans in that bag!
And it’s not even soup!
It’s always an odd number with beans.
This, 5 (or 3) bean chilli. Heinz and their 57…
I prefer to mix my beans into prime numbers
Triangle numbers for me (1,3,6,10,15,21,28…). It’s a good mix, but you run out of beans eventually.
Odd numbers are better than even numbers.
Prime numbers are the best odd numbers.
You could say they’re the oddest
TIL 2 is an odd number 😝
It is indeed very strange
it’s odd that way
There is no way these beans all have the same cooking time
Doesn’t matter, the soup turns out great regardless. I’ve made soup from this exact same 15 bean soup mix a bunch of times and it’s always great
They don’t. As I said in another post, the lentils break down first so it gets ugly but it’s nice and thick.
I’ve never pressure cooked them, just soak overnight but that might be a way to cook them without stirring too much, and keep the lentils formed correctly.
I dunno, the way I do it is a favorite so I’m not experimenting any more.
Just cook them longer. You can’t over-cook beans.
Soak overnight. Pressure cooker. 30 minutes on high heat. Natural release.
Safe from phytohaemagglutinin poisoning.
You can over cook beans.
Not universally true but in the context of soup yeah fair point
I’m unemployed and involuntarily vegan for health reasons. Dried mixed beans, brown rice, and frozen vegetables are keeping me alive.
GAS GAS GAS
Your body gets used to it. That’s not a problem.
He barely has to wipe.
He’s had the same roll of one-ply all summer
Watch out for low-flying brown missiles!
Doesn’t the body get used to eating that many beans? Like, Mexicans eat them all the time. Also I eat them as often as I can and I don’t think they really affect me that much.
Yes. You basically have to keep eating that way and your gut flora adjust to compensate. It’s still a pretty windy diet since you rely on those gut-bugs to break down a lot of the sugars in beans.
this. But also soak and discard the soaking water. And use kombu. There’s ways to get rid of the anti nutrients that cause gas before you cook it
I like to think it has more to do with the dried or dehydrated foods suddenly becoming rehydrated causing a mix of bacterial bloom within the previously barren food and difficulty digesting/passing the food resulting in the carbohydrate fermentation and flatulence as a means of pushing it through, but idk I’m not a butt engineer.
I soak all my own beans and I don’t have the issue. As someone else said, it may have to do with our individual gut flora or something.
I heard, from John Ralston Saul of all people, that the trick is to change the water.
I’ve heard the same thing. I always drain and rinse my beans well, and I never have any complaints of gassiness.
Wait until you hear about fruit!
The “unemployed” part of his comment suggests he has a low food budget, in which case fruit is a terrible choice. Beans have way more calories per dollar
You are correct. I’m wretched.
It is harvest time for fruit trees in many areas. My area has apple trees and a lot have fallen due to a drought. I can look on the ground within a 100yd radius of my place and probably rustle up a pie’s worth of decent fruits. Further south the paw paws are coming in. And later in the season, walnuts and hickory nuts will come in. I know not everyone is so lucky to live in a forageable area, but you also might be surprised what’s around.
fallingfruit.org is a fantastic resource if you’re looking for sources of free food. They have mobile apps as well.
I’m a scientist. Beans are a fruit, of the musical variety.
I found a study that disagrees. However the sample size is pretty small
(Beans are technically seeds, the pod/shell they grow in is the fruit. -botany)
What happens when you eat them more? As a scientist, that is.
They make you toot.
Moreover, we’ve found significant correlations between the quantity of consumed legumes with the frequency and duration of flatus events. This relationship may be exponential. Further studies are needed to understand the upper bounds.
[citation needed]
I miss fruit.
Dollar store spices will help you thrive.
Be careful with cheap spices. If it’s from a trusted brand, sure, go for it. Whole spices tend to be more trustworthy than powders (and sometimes cheaper). But there have been some instances of heavy metal contamination of cheap powdered spices. Especially the imported powders you’ll see a lot in international grocery stores. Even if it is safe, you don’t know how long it’s been sitting in the store or waiting in a far away warehouse.
If you see super-cheap cinnamon, it’s usually Cassia cinnamon, which contains high levels of coumarin, a blood thinner. “Real” cinnamon is Ceylon. It’s more expensive, but has much lower levels of coumarin, and most prefer its more delicate flavor. Afaik labels aren’t required to disclose what kind of cinnamon you’re buying, but the more reputable brands sell the Ceylon variety and label it as such. You can also get whole cinnamon, and the two varieties are easy to tell apart.
I like getting spices from stores with a bulk spices section. e.g., if you need a tbsp of cinnamon, or a single star anise, a very specific amount of something you’ll only use once, etc… you put only what you need in a little container and purchase it by weight. It will be super cheap compared to a whole prepackaged container and you’ll always have a fresh product with no waste. You can even bring/reuse your own containers! A lot of local food co-ops have a bulk area with spices. “Frontier Co-op” is a popular vendor for bulk sets, and their stuff is vetted and super high quality. Best of both worlds IMO.
Solid advice, I highly endorse it.
Careful though, they recently recalled dollar store cinnamon because it had lead in it
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Dirt is really expensive if you’re unemployed. Some herbs and veg are quite happily grown kratky style, but that also comes with its own challenges
The first week of vegan is brutal. But it gets better.
I’ve been like this for months. I’m miserable. I’m a vegetarian because I hate animals. I have high blood pressure so I cut out animal fat and booze.
Interesting. I’m vegetarian because I love animals
I’m a vegetarian because I hate animals
If you hate animals, I don’t think you’re doing this right.
Nope I know what I’m doing. Animals are made of blood and guts which I find gross. They’re also annoying. I don’t want them to be a part of me.
Animals are made of blood and guts which I find gross. They’re also annoying.
Wait until you hear about the most annoying animal of all, humans!! Nobody’s supposed to eat those!
You’re not wrong.
Don’t let the establishment tell you what to not eat. Follow your wanderlust.
Cook mushrooms in rice or beans. Add wallnuts. Supposedly walnut and no other but has shown to help lower blood pressure.
not really. Especially if you have access to vegan chick’n nuggies and corn dogs and junk.
The moment you stop eating meat you’ll notice just how hard society wants you to chew on dead animals. Your friends, your family, the TV commercials, the radio. They never talk about a juicy mushroom taco. It just Burger this and pork that everywhere you go. That’s what I mean by brutal. And its always an inconvenience for the cook to not add dead animal or smear your food with animal milk products.
I was on a work crew once when I was vegan. We cut trees and all rode to the locations in the same work van. One day we stopped for Ice Cream at a really popular place before calling it the day. Yay on the clock shenanigans, boo, it’s ice cream. They asked if I was cool with it, and of course I said I didnt mind, and just waited in the van.
I almost cried when my supervisor brought me out a slushy. I didn’t know they had them. It was very kind of my supervisor. No one ever made fun of me, but it was definitely obvious to everyone in day to day talk/life I had the dietary restriction.
It was also very surprising to me, how many chips use milk powder. I had a few kettle cooked salt and vinegar chips before reading the bag, and was shocked … Why? The pain.
They don’t just put it in there for fun, you can bet that milk powder affects the eating experience in a way most people enjoy. Snack companies invest a ton of money refining every nuance of their recipes.
Very nice supervisor though, the everyday compassion makes big impact.
Milk was the hardest to give up but also the cruelest of products because to get milk you have to starve baby calfs. But oat milk and soy milk seem great. Soy if you want big boobs. Costco has several brands of both.
I watched Earthlings while I was nursing my newborn. Thats all it took.
Regular milk was easy to give up, I like coconut milk better anyway, cheese was much harder to be honest. Still milk, but cheese was rough. Hummus was the only thing that could satiate the creving.
I’m pretty certain soy won’t give you “big boobs” unless you had a quantum fuckton of it, so much so, it’s impossible for a human to consume naturally.
Are you a plant?
No, plants do not like to be irrigated with any kind of milk. Plus I wouldn’t suggest to eat plants if I was a plant… I know, its what a vegan plant would say if asked if it was a vegan plant…
Smear? What milk products are you thinking of? What came to my mind was cheese (which you could call metan tofu, I suppose…), but I would usually expect cheese to be sprinkled, not smeared.
Butter or cream cheese
Oh, yeah, that does make sense. I’m not sure why my brain went up the garden path on that one.
Even when I’m not a practicing vegan, I dislike cream cheese and sour cream. I cant order many things just because if you ask them to leave it off, you might not only get a look for it, but they may just put it on there anyway.
I threw a crunch wrap (black bean with cheese and jalapeno) out the window about ten years ago. Not my finest moment, but fuck sour cream, I was starving and it just ruined everything. Aye.
LOL, practicing. My boss calls me vegan flex because I’ll eat stuff without looking at the contents.
But you know, veganism is just a self control thing. Like capital punishment. We don’t allow it but every now and then someone in Texas just has to go do their thing on the electric seating arrangement. There’s little we can do sometimes. Veganism is a self control decision not to eat products or allow the torture and murdering of animals. So I can stop tomorrow if I decided to do that. It’s not a better than thou thing. Its not a religion or a club. We don’t high five each other. Its just an understanding that if you eat that burger, a happy cow with life a dreams will be murdered to replace it…and the burger contains the dismembered parts of a cow after it was murdered and tortured. So its a decision.
I was a vegan in the US and now I’m a vegetarian in Japan. Trust me, I know lol.
I love mushroom derived flavors, but eating actual mushrooms, it’s always about texture never the taste
There’s way more than fifteen beans in there. I’d say there’s at least like 200.
It’s just 50 servings of the 15 bean soup!
