March 5, 2007
day 14 
No real news to tell.
It's finally sunny and so lovely to be outside. I'll be riding the bicycle home tonight and I can't wait.
The biggest fun I had this weekend was going grocery shopping and entirely filling two handbaskets full of fruit and veggies. The cashier was amazed (and not really amused) to see that I had 40 pieces of fruit. But hey, I need fruit. She also didn't know what escarole was. Admittedly, either did I before I walked into the store.
All this healthy living costs an arm and a leg. I'm blown away... but I am hoping it is still cheaper than our eating out all-meals-all-the-time regimen.
Oh, and for those of you concerned with the sodium in canned beans (well, I gotta share), most conventional grocery brands have about 480mg per serving. This is for S&W Black Beans—S&W is a regional brand of DelMonte. Their 50% less sodium versions have 240mg per serving. Now, if you look at health food store favorite, Westbrae Natural, their serving of beans has 140mg—and is really tasty. Eden Organic Foods is another health food store brand, and they offer no-salt-added beans (15mg!).
I'm going to actually make beans from scratch one of these days. And I'm excited about the idea of it!
Posted at March 5, 2007
Comments
The pressure cooker is your BEST FRIEND if you want more beans in your diet! An overnight soak helps even with the pressure cooker but it's not totally necessary.
You can make and then freeze ziplock bags of beans too.
Posted by: becky at March 6, 2007 3:21 PM