Ahhh, I meant they were < $1... sorry, bro.
And yes, rice 'n' beans doesn't have to be so bland. I add that shrirachi (or whatever) hot sauce to it. Chicken and onions also make it better. Add some cumin, tony's, or other seasoning to make it even better.
But adding chicken makes the price sky rocket, so that's a rare treat for me.
If I was a REAL man, I'd by the beans dry and in bulk. But that makes the process take so much longer.. don't you have to soak them overnight?
Poor young American wrote:
If I was a REAL man, I'd by the beans dry and in bulk. But that makes the process take so much longer.. don't you have to soak them overnight?
Real men don't need to soak them. Open bag, eat beans. Yumm.
You soak them overnight and then cook them for a couple of hours. It's a good thing to do on a Sunday when you're just hanging around the house, since the beans don't really require you to do anything while they're cooking.
Also, add some garlic, cumin, cheap sausage, and canned tomatoes and it'll taste much better but still be cheap as hell. Cook it in stock/bouillon if you're rich. A pound of dried beans is like 80 cents. You can very easily make 5 meals worth of food for $5.
You should start cooking them naked, then go out for your long run with a couple friends. After the long run have one of your friends pick up some cheap beer and another grab some loaves of french bread.
So, Quenton. So, Cassidy. Cass-a-day!
Black beans don't need to be presoaked. Cook 'em for 90-120 minutes and you are good.
every day for lunch i eat boiled goose.
Presoaking them decreases cooking time and will help you digest them (so you don't get gas).
efhutton wrote:
Black beans don't need to be presoaked. Cook 'em for 90-120 minutes and you are good.
If you're poor and young like the OP, you don't even cook the beans because that would mean using gas or electricity to power the oven! This comes at a cost.
Haven't you ever been dirt poor before?!
Seriously, if the OP is dirt poor, he/she should check out the local food bank.
redux wrote:
Seriously, if the OP is dirt poor, he/she should check out the local food bank.
I may be poor, but I've still got my pride. There's no way I'm gonna go to the food bank or get on food stamps or accept any other kind of assistance. I don't need anyone's help. I've got to do this one for me. For my pride. For my future kids' pride.
RICE. and. BEANS.
When I have grandkids and they ask me 'how I made it through the tough times,' (Although they'll be spoiled little rotten brats, probably, as seemingly all kids are these days, so they probably won't ask or care about my life.) I'll tell them I got up at 5, either went for a run or walked the 1.5 miles through the snow to the gym, went to work, ate 2 egg whites and oatmeal with raisins (also cheap as hell - but nasty. I still eat it, though.), worked all day, posted on LR some during the day, ate RICE 'N' BEANS for lunch, studied for 3 hours after work, then walked the 1.0 miles home, then ate RICE 'N' BEANS for dinner, unwind for 2 hours with the love of my life (glorious setup...anyone?), then sleep. Repeat.
RICE 'n' BEANS make you hard. If you can handle this schedule for the sake of the future, you can handle anything the world throws at you.
RICE 'n' BEANS gets me through the day.
Poor young American wrote:
RICE 'n' BEANS make you hard.
Hear that, ladies?
There was an episode of Law and Order: SVU where this guy made his super-smart daughter kneel on rice while solving complex math problems.
Owwwweeee
I'd imaging it wouldn't hurt half as bad to kneel on beans
thoughts?
You run 1.5 miles to the gym everyday? Or is the love of your life a 2-hour run everyday?
redux wrote:
You run 1.5 miles to the gym everyday? Or is the love of your life a 2-hour run everyday?
I don't run that much. I run 4 or 5 miles 2 or 3 times a week. I go to the gym to get my swoll on about twice a week. The gym about 1.5 miles away. I walk there in the morning, shower there, and then walk to work.
get a horse, dont feed him the beans though
A Nooner
Poor young American wrote:
What did you have for lunch?
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
If you're poor and young like the OP, you don't even cook the beans because that would mean using gas or electricity to power the oven! This comes at a cost.
Haven't you ever been dirt poor before?!
A month or so ago I picked up some black beans for the first time and soaked them overnight. The package didn't say anything about cooking them so I just ate them after soaking. Within 5 minutes I started getting pains in my stomach and then within another 5 minutes I was throwing them up. My stomach felt like crap for the rest of the night. I Googled it and apparently it is very difficult for the stomach to process the beans without cooking.
Anyway, here is all the food I brought to work today to eat during my shift:
2 turkey patties
2 slices whole wheat bread
Small amount of cut up spinach, tomato, onion, and red pepper for my turkey burgers
1 cup of brown rice
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup greek yogurt w/ fresh blueberries
Yo, Brogan, that was a great story, but that was stupid as hell! Who doesn't know that beans need to be cooked? I don't mean to be a douche because I'm actually a fan of your posts (and we're both residents of the DC metro area!).
Sounds like a quality lunch!
Glad to hear I have a fan. Another thing I forgot to mention was that when I finally took a shit I could see undigested black beans.
I still have the remaining beans. I would like to cook them because I know they are nutritious and I don't like wasting food but just looking at them makes my belly a little weak. It's kinda like if you had a bad experience with a certain type of liquor your body just doesn't want to drink it anymore.
Poor young American wrote:
RICE 'n' BEANS make you hard.
Really? I've heard that about oysters; never rice and beans though.