My mother receives federal commodity food assistance. She gets a fairly regular allotment of the same foods: cheese brick, MRE Chilli or chicken disguised with some fictitious brand, and a can or 2 of vegetarian beans. She keeps or eats most of it, but she never eats the beans. I have an average paying job, and while I can afford food I have a natural aversion to throwing any out. When she revealed her back log of vegetarian beans I volunteered to add them to my emergency supply. But I never ate them. I love beans, especially canned beans, for my mexican dishes. But sweet beans i do not like, and the vegetarian beans from the government are in a sweet and sugary sauce. For many moons I pondered this. I thought i was alone until my brother in law, after being gifted a chunk of my moms veg bean stash, asked me my own question: how do you prepare these vegetarian beans? Then this evening I drained my rice in a collander, and when I looked for some black beans or kidney beans I was out. No beans! I turned toward the basement, and back to the collander. A plan was hatched. I emptied the can into the strainer and rinsed the sauce from the beans. I've done it. I've found a way to make use of the vegetarian beans.
September 12, 2022 at 09:43PM
