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If you're looking for cheap, dried beans are about 1/2-1/3 the price per serving over canned.
They are more work, needing either a long boil, overnight soak in water, or a pressure cooker. But the cost saving is enough for me to buy mostly dried beans.
Yeah, I really really need to get a pressure cooker. 🤦
I've tried the overnight soaking method before and it didn't work out at all. Maybe a pressure cooker with baking soda will.
My husband is great at cooking beans, and I've learned from him that if you follow the instructions on the package, the beans will always end up being undercooked.
If you don't have a pressure cooker, then you just need to boil them for hours to get them tender. He doesn't even soak them -- just boils them for hours and hours.
If the goal is to save money, at some point you'd need to start worrying about the energy cost of the cooking method.
Cook batches for use throughout the week or do what I do and and any leftover beans get refried and used as a side, burritos, bolillo. I literally just put some cheddar cheese and hot sauce and eat it with a spoon. Your digestive system will thank you and you won't have to blow out you colon.
That's why you cook a huge pot and then freeze some. It definitely ends up being cheaper than those tiny cans.
I'd be doubtful that energy costs are going to make a difference of even tens of cents unless you're making a single portion of beans at a time. If I'm cooking beans, it's going to be at least half a pound dried, so one to one and a half pounds cooked