Are pinto beans healthy?

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[housemouse 1]

My family is on a pinto bean diet, i'll call it that because money tight and this is all we have to eat, well rice, and homemade tortillas, but even those few inbetween times we can have eggs, cheese, fruit, vegtables, it's mostly beans, i make plain, and chili version, leftovers become soup, my kids think we are going to die, what i'd like to hear is what someone else thinks?

[Tax-chick]

If you leave your beans in open containers, you’ll get weevils ... free protein!

[rabscuttle385]

i'll call it that because money tight

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[nutmeg]

Carbohydrate: 43.8g

Yikes... pretty high in carbs!

[housemouse 1]

All such great responses, thank you, keep them coming.

[mamelukesabre]

I’m pretty sure you are thinking of squash, not rice. Beans and squash together provide a replacement for meat, iirc.

[VR-21]

While SPAM isn’t normally considered gourmet fare, it has the perfect amount of salt and fat to cook with pinto beans. It’s quite good, inexpensive and easy to store. Make some cornbread (warm buttered flour tortillas work real good too) and serve with some chopped-up onion (and perhaps a nice California burgundy).

[Doogle]

not if they get hit in the rear end

[mnehring]

I understand if you soak and rinse the beans before cooking as well as not adding salt until the cooking is done, you can eliminate the ‘byproducts’ of beans.

[preciousbabies]

Sounds pretty good to me, actually sounds like dinner, except store bought tortilla’s not hot, fresh, yummy homemade tortilla’s.

[TorahTrueJew]

They are perfectly good-—we eat them a lot for dinner. Change up the type of beans and the form in which you eat them for variety.

Also, eat some lemon juice so you don’t get scurvy!

[ForEvers]

I recently learned that a member of my family has stage 2 kidney disease and must be on a low potassium diet. Pinto beans are high in potassium. I don’t think this is any problem for folks in good health with 100% kidneys.

[Artemis Webb]

They are completely healthy when refried with lots of salt and lard.

[Lazamataz]

Pinto beans combine with rice to form a compound known as VX, which is the world's most deadly neurotoxin.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES EAT THE DEADLY PINTO BEAN.

[mnehring]

Have fun with it.
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[Tijeras_Slim]

They’re good for you! Mountainair, New Mexico is just down the road from me... it’s the Pinto Bean Capitol of the World!

[Clay Moore]

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yep.

Lentils are good and so are chickpeas.

Chickpeas can be mashed, molded into cakes and fried for a change of flavor.

If you have a bit of property or can even get a hold of a tub of earth you can grow basic salad veggies.

If you have any wild public land you can probably find some wild greens. Just don't pick anything from the roadside.

[blam]

You can get all the nutrients you need from beans except niacin. Combine the beans with rice (niacin rich) and you have a near perfect and nutrient meal.

[csvset]

It must be fun going on long trips.

[Tax-chick]

Also, eat some lemon juice so you don’t get scurvy!

Good point. One of the best sources of Vitamin C is parsley, fresh or dried. You can come harvest it at my house ... it's in a death match with the Shasta daisies for the control of two front flowerbeds.