A Litre of Beans?
By GreenMoo
@GreenMoo (11833)
April 14, 2009 1:50pm CST
I'm very pleased with myself, having finally sourced onions and potatoes in big bags at a fortnightly market at the weekend. Though I wasn't looking for them, I discovered that the same guy also sells dried beans by the litre, which seemed to me to be a novel way of buying them. I'd certainly never seen them sold that way before. Normally, I'd expect to buy fried goods by the kilo. He had wooden boxes in various depths, and each contained one, two or five litres of produce which he scooped into a bag for you.
I spent a while this morning weighing my litres of beans to work out how they compare with the supermarket ones sold in 500g bags. For the record, you get more weight of white beans in a litre (825g) than you do black eyed beans or chickpeas (740g/760g)! They do work out cheaper, though not by a great deal. I think I'll keep buying them loose though as I can take my own container and not have to dispose of yet more plastic packaging.
Of course, I'm aiming to grow my own again this year. But we've eaten all last year's stored ones alreadt.
Do they sell beans by the litre where you live? Perhaps it's perfectly normal where you are! What other things have you seen being sold in unusual ways?
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@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
15 Apr 09
My family doesn't eat a lot of beans, so this isn't something I look for. However I've never seen them sold loose or anything. I've always ever only seen them in the baggies at the store. Like I said, we don't eat a lot of them, so I don't buy them often.
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@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
15 Apr 09
There are a few places, not many, that sell beans and rice and such by the pound. You put what you want in a plastic bag, attach a tag with their product number and the cashier weighs it and charges you. I haven't seen any place like this where I live now but in big cities you have a lot of supermarkets that do it. I like buying things this way because I can get exactly the amount I want.
I like the idea of your taking your own containers. We waste too much!
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