The Versatility of Beans - how do you serve yours?

Well, it's 2:42am and this popped into my head. [It's a kind of stress-busting distraction requiring very little effort - and very effective too]. So, do you go for brand names and eat them as they are? Cold or hot? Do you prefer the supermarket cheapo bean as they are, or adding spices and sauces to give them heat and colour? On toast, with toast, bagel, naan, bread-and-butter - or only as part of a 'full English'? Half a can or whole can? Or are you traditionalist and make your own? From dried pulses, soy, red kidney bean? Tomato ketchup, mayo or brown sauce? Or in a sarnie with or without extras like crisps and pickled onions?

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  • That's how I was brought up. My Mum couldn't understand fussy eaters. I tried that with my audhd son, but he would eat nothing rather than something he didn't like. When he was young he ate a variety of fruit, but now the selection is extremely limited. There have been things though that as he got older he now eats. He will also like something for a while then go off it.

    On the subject of beans that is one thing he has always liked.

  • We had to eat everything put in front of us, there was no special childrens foods when people of our ages where growing up, you just had a smaller portion of what your parents ate. Often you weren't allowed to dislike anything, well you were but you still had to eat it. My Dad thought I must really like sprouts as I ate them first, he was amazed when I told him I still hated them and ate them first so as I had everything else to take the taste away.