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My aunt swears dry beans are the only cheap protein, but I did the math on canned and she's wrong
My aunt in Fresno told me at Thanksgiving that anyone buying canned beans is throwing money away, and she said it like it was a fact of life. So I sat down with my receipts from Foods Co and figured out that a can of pinto beans at 89 cents gives me about 3.5 servings, while a $1.79 bag of dry beans takes 2 hours of simmering and gas to get maybe 12 servings, which works out to almost the same cost per serving once I count my time. Am I missing something here, or is the dry bean thing mostly about taste and not money?
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jana88115d ago
Ha, hold on, you're doing the math wrong by not counting what you actually get. That $1.79 bag can make a huge pot that feeds you for a week, and you still got half the bag left, while those little cans add up fast when you're eating beans every day. Plus your "2 hours of simmering" is free if you just leave them on the stove while you do laundry or watch TV, you're not standing there stirring the whole time. Add in the gas and it's pennies, not the buck fifty you're implying, so her side still wins on straight cost. The real catch is you have to plan ahead, and canned is for when you forgot, that's the tradeoff. Taste wise though, dry beans blow canned out of the water, no contest there.
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