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what is the best tasting bean

i like the black eyed bean

From where does the meme of being vegetarian is expensive come from?

Here where i live the prices for most vegetables don't go farther than 2 dollars for a kilo. Fruits are more expensive but no more than 5 dollars a kilo.

Good cow meat costs around 10 dollars a kilo and good chicken is 8 dollars a kilo. Seafood is far more expensive shrimp goes up to 20 dollars a kilo, sole fish costs like 13 dollars and tuna 15.

Meanwhile good black beans cost less than 2 dollars for a kilo, pinto beans a dollar a kilo, lentils 1.5 dollars, soybeans 2 dollars and chickpeas being the most expensive at 3 dollars a kilo.

As you see there's a lot of difference between price and unless the situation is different in your country (which i doubt) i still can't see why people say being vegetarian is so expensive. Is it meat industry propaganda?

I require protein but am also too poor for meat every day.

What are your favourite legume-based recipes? Bonus points for a bean based curry, I'm really feeling it.