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DAE remember when a bag of dried beans was the real budget dinner, not a cheap trick?
My neighbor Ruth stopped me in the driveway yesterday while I was hauling buckets out of the truck and asked how I feed my family on cleaning wages. She said she raised four kids on rice and beans from the bulk bin at the Food City over on 5th, paying about 59 cents a pound back then. It hit me different because I had just spent $3.49 on a little bag of fancy seasoned lentils at the same store without even thinking. I grew up on her kind of cooking and somehow forgot that a pot of pinto beans with a ham hock used to feed us for two days for under two bucks. So what's the bean dish you still make when money gets tight, and does it actually work out cheaper than it did years ago?
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