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Can we talk about how much cheaper dried beans are than canned
I ran the math last month after grabbing two cans of black beans for $2.50 total and realized the same amount dried costs me about 60 cents. The dried ones take longer, sure, but I soak them overnight and toss them in the slow cooker while I'm at work, and they taste way better too. The canned stuff always has that weird metallic aftertaste to me. Am I the only one who made this switch late, or do you all have a go-to trick for keeping dried beans from taking over your whole Sunday?
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bens815d ago
My wife and I started buying the 25 lb bags from the Mexican grocery down the street for like $18 and it changed everything. The thing I keep noticing is how this same math works for so many staples, rice, oats, flour, popcorn kernels. We got so used to paying for somebody else's can and shelf space that we stopped asking what the actual food costs. A pound of dried black beans gives you about 6 cups cooked, so that $2.50 for two cans is really more like $5 or $6 for the same amount if you cook your own. The slow cooker on Sunday thing is smart, I just do a big batch and freeze them in jars.
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