How to feed your family for under $5: Canned bean dinners that are really delicious

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17. I do love beans and yes, they are very nutritious but...

if you have young children they rarely like beans. Yes, they'll eat them if they're hungry enough, but I hate the fact that we peons are told "just eat beans every day" while the fat cats are in the ballroom eating caviar and steak.

It'd be one thing if this was a world war and we were eating beans, etc. to help the war effort like in WWII, but I'll be goddamned if I'm going to advocate the poor to just eat beans.

I know this will get some pushback, but I grew up poor and I learned to like my mother's bean soup made with the flavoring of a ham bone which she could get free from the butcher. This was mostly in the winter. But every once in awhile my father would "splurge" on a round steak which she would make into swiss steak after cooking it for a long time so it was not tough. They had seven children to feed and rent to pay so we wouldn't get evicted from the hovel that we lived in. I grew up in the snow belt of NE Ohio, so winters were brutal. The coal for our coal furnace had to be rationed out too.

I'm a post-war boomer. This is the richest country in the world (or so they say) and we cannot and should not normalize what's happening in our economy and government. We should have our next protest be where we all bring a can of beans to the Capitol and put them on the steps with signs that say, "Let THEM eat beans".