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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I don't know why anyone would choose ramen as a poverty meal. Beans cost about the same and are far more nutritious.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago

Good thing I’m a nutrient consuming robot who just needs fuel to power my circuits and not a human who has to taste things.

Frankly I don’t know why the grocery store has anything other than just beans. It would save so much time.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because it's easier to make, easy to clean up, and NOODLES!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (4 children)

How to make bean

  1. open can
  2. heat
  3. profit
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

How to make Ramen

  1. Heat Water
  2. Add ramen
  3. Profit
[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Wait, you're saying you can get the same "nutrition to cost" value out of wet beans? I assumed you meant dry beans (and this would need to soak and actually cook them).

This might just be location specific, but wet beans are much more expensive (in terms of calories per dollar) compared to ramen every where I've seen (lived in South West and Mid Atlantic of US).

Are you saying that's not the case where you're at?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Depends on the beans. Some taste really good on their own, others are very bland.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Beans + Ramen packet = 🤯

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Where I live dried beans are usually about on par with ramen, but not canned beans.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they don't like beans. I don't generally like beans unless they're in something else.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I generally don't like beans unless they are something else

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i can live with it, but i'd prefer it just be more meat or rice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Different people have different tastes, as they say. I do not like beans in general, but I am fine with refried beans and black beans in Mexican food and beans in chili. And I guess if chick peas count as a bean, since they're also called garbanzo beans, I enjoy hummus and falafel. But like a side of lima beans or whatever? Bleah. And green beans are just disgusting to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Ground beef and flour. If I weren't allergic to wheat and all carbs didn't give me diarrhea then i could make a million meals out of those.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One of my favorite meals is beans, sausage, and rice with some hot sauce mixed in. It's such a nice comfort food, and it's incredibly cheap and pretty nutritious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You can also use ground beef, you buy the cheapest meat and ask them to grind it, or like me you have the hand cranked one at home.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You still need to cook it. It can't beat pouring hot water into a container in terms of simplicity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Off course ramen is going to always be easy to cook, but ramen stops being the best choice when you start getting scurvy, and your skin is shit, and you don't have energy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That's the problem with any monodiet, yes. Thankfully, even the most poor student and a depressed adult can afford an apple once in a while

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

do you have any noob-friendly recipes for beans? More specifically, some western style (US or Europe)?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew.

But actually though. Spicy Red beans and rice is delicious, black bean burgers, anything with chick peas like hummus wraps or chick pea fritters, vegetable tacos and burritos with black beans... there are loads of things.

I very much like red beans and rice when it's particularly spicy. Can add some sausage for heartiness too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tomato soup with kidney beans can make it way more filling and gives the taste more body. Other less-western combinations with tomato work as well; like rice / beans, some sweet pepper, onion / tomato mixed sauce (perhaps even add apple or banana).

Otherwise stuff like Burritos and Chili recipes are always great.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Thanks, I want something that's like 90% beans, not just something that have beans in it like burrito and chili. Like those "English breakfast" beans in red sauce.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

because beans dont taste good

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago

Because beans don't offer as good nutrition compared to instant ramen