I buy beans from Asian supermarket where I can get a 600g jar of white beans that is 85 bean not water for 69p. They have lots of other sorts of bean so is it worth checking if you have access?
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
It is now it's trendy but it used to be very cheap, rather like lamb shanks are so pricy. There was a time when the butchers couldn't sell them and virtually gave them away.
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I call it Celebratory Chef Inflation. You have a nice cheap and tasty ingredient. Some TV Chef then shows everyone else and it becomes trendy and the price shoots up.
Pork ribs are same. Often charge more for the bony ribs than the meat they cut off them and often in this country they cut nearly all the meat off the bone (don't buy ribs with the bone showing - shiners). Waitrose have their "Meaty Ribs" but too often cut into "chops" not left as a rack.