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You could purchase ten one pound bags at the supermarket. You are going to can them anyway so does it matter if they are in a one or ten pound bag?
Cost savings. Depending on the part of the country you may find bulk bags of dried beans from local producers or ethnic markets. As an example, anywhere throughout the southwest US you can find big sacks of pinto beans at the smaller Mexican groceries.
I once special ordered 25# sacks of black beans and pinto beans from a major grocery chain and was given a 10% discount off the per-pound price.
Why lima and navy beans? I don't typically see those in dried form unless they're in a soup mix of different bean varieties. Seems like black, pinto, kidney, and garbanzo are more common.
Not surprising, but it is hard to find ten one pound bags at a given time. I have never thought about looking to see if they are grown and processed in the USA. I can get pinto beans by bulk at Sam's Club, but no other types are available.
My favorites are pinto, navy, great northern and baby limas. My wife has already canned some pinto and great northern beans. I eat these with corn bread.
Just out of curiosity, do you eat so many beans you want to buy them in bulk, can them, and then rotate/consume them all before the canning preservation gets sketchy?
The beans you describe are toxic. They can be rendered safer by thoroughly cooking them, but humans did not evolve to eat them or any other plants with toxic levels of lectins and cyanide.
If one thinks about it, most of the foods we eat cannot be consumed without applying some form of technology to them, whether its by cooking, fermentation, or some other process. Likewise, our cave dwelling ancestors never painted scenes of humans eating salads on the walls.
I consider most plants to be famine foods, especially the ones that would have killed our technology-lacking ancestors. (Or lets face, almost any human walking around today if suddenly all the processed food got turned off).
I didn't mean to rant. If we were looking for something to can, we'd be shopping meat sales. Fortunately, we raise our own and would only can it if refrigeration became unavailable. And we have the equipment, supplies, and experience to do that too if it was ever necessary.
Just out of curiosity, do you eat so many beans you want to buy them in bulk, can them, and then rotate/consume them all before the canning preservation gets sketchy?
I had similar thoughts when I read the OP, and with this being in the Preparedness forum I question why dried beans are even being canned in bulk at all? It's one of the few food products that can be safely kept in dry storage for years or even decades and still be edible. Cook beans on demand, as people have for hundreds of years. If the OP is that fond of home cooked beans, they can be prepared within an hour in a pressure cooker.
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try Chef's Store (cash & carry for smaller restaurants and bulk retail buyers. ), a div of US Foods (restaurant wholesale and distribution).
Food 4 Less. a discount bulk store of Kroger. Bulk bins.
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