When I was pregnant and had gestational diabetes, I had to learn to love my beans when I started using the Karen Hurd diet.   I have found that I really do love them, and eat them a lot more now...but sometimes it's so hard to remember to cook them and by the time i think about it, it's too late to start a batch of beans.    If only I was better at remembering!

I found a great post by Melissa from Growth as a Wife and Mother that had a simple but terrific idea for how to prepare beans faster- without having to resort to buying canned beans, which are much more expensive....I'm definitely going to be trying this!    It will save so much time.   

Read her post here.


*****By the way, please forgive all of the spam in my comments lately. I have been just swamped with spam for the last several months...it used to be tolerable, only showing up in my older posts, and I could just disable comments and solve the problem. But now the spammers are attacking my newest posts too, and I just don't know how to solve the problem. I would love to import this blog to another blogging system with a better spam filter, but I don't have the knowledge on how to do that, so I'm stuck with this one for now.   If anyone knows how to do it (from Godaddy.com to another blog system), please let me know!