Why are some people so afraid of beans? Why are 4,700 people agreeing that just eating rice is a good tip? Thousands of years of civilization and we have circled all the way back to poor people surviving on meager rice rations.
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rice and beans together combine a full protein. you can live off of that, permanently. it wont be very fun after a while but technically speaking.
eat more beans
you can live off of that, permanently.
A huge part of South America already does lol
Wtf I didn’t know that was a full protein. That’s fire. I have been eating the three sisters to get a full protein and though I have no intention to stop doing this it is nice to worry less considering the amount of beans and rice I eat.
Rice and beans are full proteins but you still should eat other things to get micronutrients and fiber. There’s where squash and fruits and veggies come in I believe.
From what I’ve read on the issue as long as you’re eating a varied diet you don’t really need to twist yourself into knots about proteins being full/complete. Everything with protein has varying amounts of all the essential amino acids, some just have more than others.
I only worry about it because I am trying to build muscle. Most people definitely don’t have to
imo getting enough protein from plants kind of requires eating a varied diet anyway
If you tried to get it all from beans alone you’d get sick of beans.
You underestimate my love for beans and autistic eating habits
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legumes + grains in general, in fact. a peanut butter sandwich is a complete protein
you also don’t need to eat them together, like as long as your weekly diet is varied you’ll be absolutely fine
Rice and beans is the international dish for the world
Why are some people so afraid of beans?
midwestern white church chili
They just… dump the canned beans in straight from the can, starch goo and all.
It’s common in the area of the Midwest I was in for people to argue over if beans even belonged in chili
The bean goo is a wonderful thickening agent and I’m here to get my full money’s worth out of that can!
No! You have to simmer the chili until it thickens! Adding thickener just means the flavor is less concentrated.
Porque no los dos? More farts=more better.
Maybe if you’re eating it by scooping the chili up with corn chips. Maybe as a topping?
Now you’re thinking with bean goo. The starch is good for emulsifying cheese too, so you can make a chili queso dip!
The problem with the church chili is they don’t give you any corn chips. You get a plastic spoon.
get a rice cooker
They even make portable ones, no excuse
Yah but you also have to buy fresh cilantro and a lime to make it
they don’t put enough on their rice that you need to bother, and if you do bother it’ll taste 10x better
Because heating up water is otherwuse too complicated?
I get where you’re coming from. I used to be on the same page. Until I got a rice cooker. There is a reason that every single Asian household has one (or an instant pot). Trust that others have figured something out that you haven’t, and take the win.
They’re like 20 dollars and it will quickly become your most used kitchen appliance.
someone in college may not have access to a stove but they can find 1 square foot of table space for a rice cooker
My first exposure to beans were nasty af baked beans at school and I thought I hated beans for almost two decades.
I think that actually might explain a lot of weird food tastes of yankees - their parents don’t have time to cook lots of different dishes, so they tend to have the same dozen or so meals on rotation until school. Then they get to school and it’s prison food, and that’s their first exposure to a new food, and it sticks in their brain until they have a really good experience to counteract it.
i think the advent and marketing of mass produced canned food has a lot of blame here, so many people i know grew up thinking “canned X heated up in a pot/microwave” was just what X tasted like
It’s even possible to make canned stuff taste really good, but you have to put the work in. Rinse a can of beans and a can of corn and throw that in a frying pan with oil, drain a can of tomatoes and add them later when the beans and corn are nice and seared, and then simmer with chili flakes. Yim yum.
No one puts the work in. I know it’s one of my Special Interests so I try to be sympathetic towards people who don’t like cooking as much as I do, but you get a tasty treat at the end! It’s literally the best kind of chore, one that is literally always rewarding! I don’t get it.
It’s my job to make food and this is a quick and easy meal for me. If you’re efficient you can it all done in 10 minutes
That was me with beets and mushrooms as a kid. Microwaved, canned, flavourless, rubbery garbage. Then I had a slice of pizza with mushroom on it and realized what a mushroom could taste like. Still took me until I was like 17+ to realize my parents can’t cook.
Maybe I just have a really boring palate, but one of my mainstay meals is:
- Microwave canned lentil soup
- Microwave yellow Minute Rice
- Combine
- Stir
And I actually, legitimately like it. Like, I no joke look forward to it. I’ve had it 3-4 times a week for years without complaint.
Microwave yellow Minute Rice
One month medium intensity labour for you!
No, seriously, I’ve never found a microwave rice that was good. It’s way better to make a batch in the rice cooker and freeze it in portions, then microwave that.
Not buying two appliances to cook food.
You can cook it on a stove, hell I think they have weird plasticky contraptions to cook rice in the microwave.
But the cheapest rice cooker is the best, set and forget and it comes out perfectly everytime
“If I can’t microwave it, I ain’t eatin’ it.”
-Giant guy in overallsracks shotgun
Yes the texture and aromas are all off with those microwave rice packets
yeah sounds fine, the big offender is vegetables anyway, canning absolutely destroys them but legumes hold up to canning really well in my experience. and it sounds like you’re getting stuff that’s already seasoned which avoids the other problem with a lot of canned food, which is people’s parents didn’t know how/bother to season it well
This is my wife’s experience. She said I was fancy because I would make things like beans from scratch.
It really has to be some psyop by food companies to get people to avoid fiber. They are trying to induce diabetes to as a way to increase sales of junk food and statin drugs.
I think fiber is going to be the next health food craze, but not in a good way like eating foods that already have fiber. They’re going to start adding waste product fiber to junk foods to raise the price like they do with whey protein.
Whey protein used to be either thrown away or used in pet food/animal feed and now they can use it to make a tiny packet of $3 protein chips or a $5 brownie.
They’re already kind of doing this- not adding waste product fiber (they use inulin which, afaik, is directly sourced for this purpose rather than being a byproduct of other processes), but check out “prebiotic soda” if you haven’t heard of them. Poppi and Olipop are probably the most popular examples
i did the math and if one starts with dry rice & dried beans, one can make a gut busting amount of beans and rice for about 40 cents. an instant pot (timed/consistent pressure cooker) reduces the time and effort for this process DRAMATICALLY. q
experimenting with / access to tiny amounts of fresh herbs, the occaisional vegetable (an onion) salt & spices introduces a welcome & opportunistic diversity.
This is what I do! Throw beans and water (maybe some bullion) in the pressure cooker appliance, set it for 20-25 min depending on the type or age of the beans. I let it depressurize on its own. Then I pan fry onions and garlic in olive oil. If I have peppers (bell, chili) I’ll fry them too. Once onions are soft, I’ll add some spices like cumin and oregano. Pour that right into the beans and stir it up. Salt to taste and maybe a splash of apple cider vinegar. Rice in the rice cooker.
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