the recent baked beans were made from the last batch of 4 gallons of beans i cooked up. when i'm sorting beans or going through my collection and paring it down i keep a container marked "Eating Beans" and anything that is edible can go in those, so i can only guess at how many varieties of beans are in there, but at times it is easily over 100. i have one last container of those beans that will get cooked up next time i do a big batch.
i have to get ready for the next round of planting and that also means going through the collection and deciding which ones i'm not growing again. so yet another container of "Eating Beans" is already started, but whenever i cook it will get included with other bulk beans to make up a big enough batch. sometimes Mom buys Navy Pea Beans or Great Northern Beans because she likes those to add more and they make a nice contrast for all the darker beans. i don't grow either of those - they're beans i've grown up eating and have probably eaten over a thousand lbs of them through the years - i don't dislike them in terms of flavor, but i don't find them visually interesting so i don't want to devote time and space to growing them when they can be easily purchased for not much $. besides i have a lot of other projects i'd like to have that space for growing and then my own bulk beans. one of which is called Yellow Eye and it is a good soup bean so i would rather grow that one instead.
I like breakfast, just not cooking it! Prepare extra for that. Heat & eat.
i have quite a bit to eat now for the next four days and that won't be any problem at all for me.
