• WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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    My kids make fun of me for making beans for so many meals but delicious, cheap, healthy, they are an ideal food.

    If only I could agree. I cannot atomach the taste or texture of beans. I just cannot. I would love to eat them for the fiber and protein and all the good stuff but I just hate the taste so much.

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      Have you tried roasted chickpeas (garbanzos)? Also there is a chickpea flour that is used in Indian food. Not that this would be enough to get you the 2 cups or anything, but they are some much different tasting/feeling preparations that you might like ok or enjoy. Also the pumpkin soup I posted - the puree hides in that soup, nobody thinks it’s beans, the pumpkin is so strong of flavor the beans just cut that so it’s good not ungodly sweet.

      I can imagine not liking beans, they do have a specific, really lovely to me, smooth and thick texture. The flavor I can’t really imagine not liking all of them, they are pretty different from each other.

      Plenty of other foods have fiber just not as efficient as beans, you would have to eat a lot more to hit that health target.

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        Have you tried roasted chickpeas (garbanzos)?

        Better than beans still not the biggest fan.

        Also the pumpkin soup I posted - the puree hides in that soup, nobody thinks it’s beans, the pumpkin is so strong of flavor the beans just cut that so it’s good not ungodly sweet.

        Is that soup post somewhere in your other posts or comments? But I have a feeling I won’t like that either since I have never liked pumpkin soup.

        Call me picky whatever but it seems hard to get fiber unless it’s stuff I don’t like. Would love to find a fiber rich food that tastes good or barely has taste.

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          Enjoyment is an important part of healthy eating, and I believe simply not overeating is at least 75% of healthy eating, so wouldn’t really worry about it that much.

          The soup is in this thread higher up, hardly a recipe it’s so easy - I don’t really like squash or sweet potatoes but love that soup, all the toppings.

          Oh! I remembered this one too, might be more tasty to you if you are into cooking, my family keeps asking for it, but it’s not a weeknight thing, have to pull out the blender. Sopa Tarasca, at the bottom of this link. I have made it with canned beans and tomatoes and it’s just as good.

          https://www.npr.org/2009/11/04/120062592/foods-of-michoacan-are-forever