{"id":1639,"date":"2013-01-06T03:58:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T03:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2013-01-06T03:58:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T03:58:14","slug":"more-about-getting-more-beans-into-your-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/more-about-getting-more-beans-into-your-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"More About Getting More Beans into Your Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color:#333300;\">Nutrition, Inspiration and Avoiding Troublesome Gaseous Issues<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>Nutrition\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> While beans are packed with nutrients and protein, I try not to focus unduly on nutrition facts, like how Food G has XYZ nutrients while Food S has ABC nutrients.\u00a0 This approach turns healthy eating into an arithmetic problem, and most of us never liked arithmetic to begin with.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   \" alt=\"Egg, Pepper and Potato Scramble with Black Beans\" src=\"http:\/\/i722.photobucket.com\/albums\/ww230\/mcolletterogers\/EggScramblewithblackBeans.jpg\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">See the great color black beans add to this Pepper and Potato Scramble; better nutrition is automatic!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Instead, I like to focus on fun things like textures, colors and complimentary tastes.\u00a0 And guess what?\u00a0 Great nutritional content automatically follows.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why I push beans.\u00a0 They add incredible color and texture to a dish that might otherwise be pretty bland (think a cheese quesadilla.)\u00a0 Add colorful beans and you&#8217;ve not only painted a more beautiful plate, but your nutritional density has just soared.\u00a0 Now, just add some green peppers. . . and a few sauteed red radishes. . . .you get the picture!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>Planning for More Beans<\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Attend <a title=\"New Kitchen Cooking School Class Schedule\" href=\"http:\/\/everydaygoodeating.org\/nkcalendar-register.html\" target=\"_blank\">any of my classes <\/a>or <a title=\"Kitchen Coaching Services\" href=\"http:\/\/everydaygoodeating.com\/page14.html\" target=\"_blank\">work with me one-on-one<\/a> and you know I can&#8217;t say enough about meal planning.\u00a0 It saves time, saves money, ensures healthier and more interesting meals&#8211;and is the best known method for working new foods into your diet.\u00a0 &#8220;Plan it and it will happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re ready to start enjoying more beans in your diet, get out a sheet of paper and write in a couple ideas from this series of posts. Here are a few more ideas to get you going:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vegetable Soup with Beans (you can even just add canned beans to canned vegetable soup.\u00a0 Easy.)<\/li>\n<li>Bean Soups:\u00a0 Black Bean, Tortilla, White Bean and Kale<\/li>\n<li>Bean Burgers (with black beans, garbanzo beans, red beans)<\/li>\n<li>Mexican Food (of course)<\/li>\n<li>Squash and Beans (in a quick mix or a casserole)<\/li>\n<li>Pasta and Beans (aka Pasta y Fagioli)<\/li>\n<li>Chili (with or without meat; combine different bean varieties for fun)<\/li>\n<li>Chard of Kale and White Beans<\/li>\n<li>Beans and Rice with Salsa<\/li>\n<li>Spreads (hummus, white bean, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Brownies (indeed, black bean brownies are awesome!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll note that I&#8217;m only giving you general ideas, since recipes are all over the internet&#8211;and in the three dozen cookbooks languishing in your kitchen!\u00a0\u00a0 If you can just narrow your options so the task is manageable, then finding a recipe is easy.\u00a0 So pick one, just one, idea from this post series then find a recipe to match.\u00a0 Once you get going, ideas will snowball.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"Butter Beans\" src=\"http:\/\/i722.photobucket.com\/albums\/ww230\/mcolletterogers\/ButterBeans.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"252\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Butter Beans in the pantry, ready for adventure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Play\u00a0<\/span> <\/strong>Go on a treasure hunt at the grocery store.\u00a0 It only takes a couple minutes to find a bit of inspiration, but it will lighten your daily meal making routine immeasurably.\u00a0 On my last shopping trip, for instance, I ran across a can of Butter Beans that will serve as a springboard for inspiration in the coming week.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>Troublesome Issues of the Gaseous Variety\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span>The downside of beans, of course, is the intestinal havoc they can cause.\u00a0 Surely you&#8217;ve seen the many possible solutions in various articles.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s my best advice:\u00a0 Avoid eating sugar when eating a meal featuring beans.\u00a0 I have no scientific study to back me up, but the sugar seems to ferment the beans with all the explosive consequences of fermentation in a tight spot.\u00a0 Give it a try and see if this helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutrition, Inspiration and Avoiding Troublesome Gaseous Issues Nutrition\u00a0 While beans are packed with nutrients and protein, I try not to focus unduly on nutrition facts, like how Food G has XYZ nutrients while Food S has ABC nutrients.\u00a0 This approach turns healthy eating into an arithmetic problem, and most of us never liked arithmetic to &#8230; <a title=\"More About Getting More Beans into Your Diet\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/more-about-getting-more-beans-into-your-diet\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookhappylivehealthy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}