• Home
  • About
  • Little Leaf | My Web Design Business
  • What do you want to do?
    • Project 333 – Capsule Wardrobe
    • Understand what miscarriage is like
    • Read a pep talk
    • Travel to Puerto Rico
  • Contact
    • Advertise & Disclosure
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

Our Little Apartment

Less Stuff, More Life.

  • Minimalism & Decluttering
    • How I Learned to Stop Being a Slob and Started Cleaning up After Myself.
    • Decluttering, Cleaning, and Saving Money in the New Year.
    • Why I Want to be A Minimalist.
    • How to Determine When You have Enough Stuff.
    • On A Bit of Minimalist Travel // Why & How to Pack Lighter.
    • How Routines Have Made My Life Better.
    • A Tiny Christmas.
    • Why I Take a Social Media Break.
    • Or Do Without.
    • All posts about minimalism & decluttering
  • Saving Money
    • My Cleaning & Meal Planning Routines.
    • How and Why We Budget.
    • Doing a Buy Nothing Month.
    • Choosing between Convenience and Values.
    • Frugal Tips
    • 6 Ways We Save Money on Groceries.
    • My Favorite Little Ways to Save Money.
    • Being a One Car Family, Part 1.
    • Being a One Car Family, Part 2.
    • All posts about frugality & saving money
  • Green Living
    • Cloth Diapering
    • 9 Ways I'm Going to be Greener at Home.
    • How to Eat Less Meat
    • Green Living: What I Use to Clean.
    • Airing my Clean Laundry.
    • Still Shampoo Free.
    • All posts about green living & sustainability
  • Motherhood
    • Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss
    • Pregnancy Updates
    • Gabe's Birth Story
    • Theo's Birth Story
    • Everything You Need to Know about Babywearing.
    • Sleep Training Success without (Many) Tears.
    • On Careers and Ladders and Motherhood.
    • Answering Questions: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
    • Anxiety, Committment, and Childbirth, Oh My!
    • All posts about motherhood & parenting
  • Career & Business
    • Tools I Love for Administrative Tasks & How I Use Them.
    • How I Organize Tasks & To Do Lists.
    • My Freelance-aversary & Some Thoughts on Making Your Life What You Want.
    • How I Make Money Online.
    • Why I Use the Genesis Framework.
    • Why I Love Redbooth for Project & Task Management
    • Working from Home Tips & Time Management Strategies.
    • How Does She Do It All? She Doesn't.
    • Working Mama // Figuring Out Child Care.
    • Reader Question: Discerning A Career Path.
  • Travel
    • Our "Workcation" at the Outer Banks.
    • Traveling with a Babe.
    • Costa Rica and Puerto Rico Visit, Part 1 | Lazing about at a resort
    • Puerto Rico, Part 2 | Eating our Way Through Old San Juan
    • Where to Stay & What to Eat in Puerto Rico. (Part One)
    • What to Do & See in Puerto Rico. (Part Two)
    • Anatomy of a Mini Getaway.
    • Western Massachusetts
    • Toronto, Canada
  • Search
Frugality & Saving Money, Green Living & Sustainability

Beans, Beans the Musical Fruit.

Filed Under: Frugality & Saving Money, Green Living & Sustainability 1 Comment


I don’t eat meat, so to get protein I consume lots of beans. We use beans for hummus, quesadillas and to add to mac and cheese, salads, stir fries and sooo much more. (FYI: The average American consumes 50% MORE protein than the RDA. So eating beans, grains, and veggies gets us enough protein without needing supplements.) If уоu аrе planning to get a grаіnу-lооkіng bоdу wіth muѕсlеѕ, then уоu ѕhоuld соnѕіdеr uѕіng s23 sarm thrоughоut the сuttіng рhаѕе. Beans are a fantastic nutritional source – there’s more calcium, less fat, and more potassium in black beans than in 95% fat free beef. As an added bonus, they are more affordable in comparison. Especially if you’re like me and decide to buy dried beans. It always seemed like such a pain to worry about rinsing, sorting, soaking, and cooking beans that you could just as easily pop open a can and dump into a bowl. It is hard to get all the nutrients our body needs these days, and when you are trying to build your body, certain kinds of nutrients are needed in your diet, this is where supplementing comes in. Taking Sunergetic Products supplements will help provide the essential nutrients your body needs to form that shape you want.
Protein powder, amino acid supplements are good body building supplements. Take quality supplements. Don’t just walk into the store and pick up a bottle of supplement, make sure what you are buying is of good quality and has powerful ingredients. Dbol crazy bulk is a powerful muscle building supplement that contains 100% natural ingredients. It is an alternative to steroids. It helps you build muscle faster than any other supplement. The product has consistently risen in popularity and has become the preferred muscle gainer in the bodybuilding niche. It promotes fast muscle gain and improves strength and stamina. It is specially formulated for hard gainers. You can find more information about The Best Bulk Supplements for Bodybuilding through this site https://swfas.org.

Then, as always, Crunchy mentioned something about beans and I gave it a try. I had never even so much as looked at the dried beans at the grocery store, but when I did. WOAH. Less than a dollar for THAT much beans!? Being Young, Fabulous, and Broke, I decided to quickly snatch up half a dozen bags of beans. What a steal! I could figure out how to cook them later.

I am lazy and therefore half read the instructions on the back of the package. Three cups water, one cup beans – boil until they’re soft. That’s my Cliff Notes version. There are all kinds of options like quick soaking and overnight and blah blah blah. My lazy girl method seems to work so far*. But if you’re cooking chickpeas (for yummy hummus; which is consequently the cornerstone of my husband’s diet. I swear that if I didn’t cook he’d eat cereal for every meal of the day. Not that I have anything against cereal. Mmm. Cereal.) you need to add fresh water a couple of times because it boils down. I learned the hard way last week when I set off the smoke detector and found a saucepan of blackened chickpeas. (Yes. I used them still. Blackened chickpea hummus is a delicacy in some places.)

So bottom line. Beans are delicious and nutritious. They’re REALLY cheap if you can handle a little more work and get some dried beans. Throw them in anything for a great meal. Uh, except for waffles. Or oatmeal. That could be weird. (Although authentic Chinese food does involve some interesting sweets with red beans.) Get creative though!

*If you prefer, you can be a lazy girl (or boy) with your slow cooker as well. I fully support that.

Share this:

  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • More
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest

Related

March 6, 2008 · Tagged With: food, reducing waste, vegetarianism 1 Comment

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to Our Little Apartment and receive notifications of new posts by email.

About Ashley

More about Ashley >>

Comments

  1. maggie says

    March 7, 2008 at 5:17 am

    I can think of few things I hate more than anything with red bean in it. Especially that red bean goop they give you at the end of a banquet.

    ANYWAY! Did you know that I had no idea you were still writing this blog because I did not have it in my feed reader? For some reason? And that is why I have been such a rotten nonexistent commenter? MY BAD!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Hey, I'm Ashley & this is my blog

web designer · vegetarian · coffee addict · obsessed with goal-setting · imperfect mother · wife to an academic · wannabe minimalist

I blog about these things and our attempts to live a simpler, greener life in a small city in Massachusetts.  More>>

Get my posts via email!

Enter your email address to subscribe to my blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Instagram

Follow on Instagram

Most Pinned Posts:




Search

About Ashley

Read More…

Saving Money & Living Frugally

Doing a Buy Nothing Month.

Every so often, my eating junk food gets a little out of control and do a little juice cleanse. To help reset my body’s ideas of … [Read More...]

All Saving Money & Living Frugally Posts >>

Simple Living & Minimalism

Long Distance Moving and Decluttering – A Few Tips.

We're in the midst of a long distance move to Massachusetts this month (in the nomadic portion of our move - we moved out of our … [Read More...]

All Simple Living & Minimalism Posts >>

Green Living & Sustainability

Choosing between Convenience and Values.

A reader asks: How do you decide when to focus your energy on better choices versus choosing convenience? I think it can be so … [Read More...]

All Green Living & Sustainability Posts >>

Motherhood & Parenting

The Story of Eleanor.

(Warning, this post will contain mentions of bodily fluid) How Eleanor Came to Be. I want to write this all down while I still … [Read More...]

All Motherhood & Parenting Posts >>

Career & Business

A New Leaf. Little Leaf.

(Yes, I am a dork.) Your website should be like an extra employee. Who works non stop 24/7. I recently overhauled my site … [Read More...]

All Business & Career Posts >>

Recipes

Recipe: Curried Greens and Chickpeas

Recipe: Vegetarian Ramen.

Recipe: Sweet and Sour Tempeh with Pineapple and Cashews.

Recipe: Tofu Lettuce Wraps.

Recipe: Bistro Broccoli Chowder

All recipes >>

Copyright © 2025 · Our Little Apartment Custom On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in