How much do you pay for your beans? I usually buy canned (I know, I know :lol: ), but I was surprised at the cost of the bags; I expected them to be much less expensive.

you'd be surprised how much they grow and expand once cooked. There's a lot more there than you'd think.

Yeah, depending on the bean, they're 2-3 times the size when cooked. A pound of dry makes 6 cups of cooked pinto beans. That's like 3 cans. And I can get pretty much any dry beans for $.60 - $1.00 a pound, so it's definitely cheaper. The real reason I buy dry beans is that they taste better to me, though. I like having some canned on hand as a convenience food, but we prefer to eat cooked dry beans.

Thanks ladies...that's what I was wondering...I am glad to hear the specifics when you say that 1 lb is like 6 cans. I was wondering where the savings were when the dry beans were $1/lb and the canned were $0.79/15 oz cans.

Yeah, the dry beans magically grow! :)

Dry beans here are about $1.20-$1.50 a pound which is CRAZY lol but I think that all the time. Anyhow, dry beans to me are oddly a "treat" because I don't do them often and I do think they taste much better. Beans are cheap either way you get them so I don't worry too much about the cost of canned over bagged.

Wow. I get organic dried beans through my co-op for $1-1.20 a lb. by the 5 lb.

Wow. I get organic dried beans through my co-op for $1-1.20 a lb. by the 5 lb.

You are a lucky woman! :)

Organic beans from our co-op bulk bin are anywhere from 1.19 to 1.89 ish per lb depending on the type and what's on sale.

We get pinto beans for $10/20lb bag when they go onsale, black beans are closer to 20, ordered when on sale at the natural foods store.

I just got organic dark red kidney beans for 1.49/lb at whole foods.

Our canned beans are $.69 and the bags are something like $.89. But the bagged ones have less salt and go much further. Not as convenient though.