Dry or canned beans, difference?

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Dry or canned beans, difference?
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Wed, 01-11-2006 - 12:53pm
Is there any real difference, in terms of flavor, healthiness, etc with choosing canned beans over dry (that need presoaked)? I'm wondering this because it would really help me with cooking to use canned beans instead of the dry beans. And what about price? Does the time saved with remembering to presoak balance against the money saved by dry beans in the bag?

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Sat, 01-14-2006 - 8:50pm

Dry beans have less sodium and are slighly cheaper but they have to be boiled for two hours.

Personally, I'm NOT disciplined enough to time my bean desires with extenisve boiling time, so I stock up on cans of Goya beans, especially when they are on sale. I open the can and put them in a colander and rinse them (so they're not as salty).

http://www.goya.com/english/products/product.html?prodCatID=1&prodSubCatID=1

Beans RULE.

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Sun, 01-15-2006 - 2:39pm
I can get Goya products in a few stores near me. I think I'll have to look over the choices more at the store :)

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Sun, 01-15-2006 - 6:53pm
Store brand beans are just as good, and usually cheaper. But Goya has an amazing variety. Where I shop at the Food Lion, there's an "ethnic foods" section with Thai, Indian and Mexican foods. And Goya has almost 10 differnt kinds of beans to choose from. And all the cans have rockin' recipes!
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Sun, 01-15-2006 - 8:16pm
I may have to go over to Meijers, instead of Walmart (where my SO works) but then for any type of real choice in vegetarian foods, I have to do that anyways lol

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