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TIL that soaking dried chickpeas overnight instead of using canned cut my hummus cost from $4 to about 90 cents
I always grabbed canned chickpeas for hummus because it felt cheap enough at like $1.25 a can, but last week I did the math and realized I was spending around $4 every time I made a batch between the cans, tahini, lemon, and garlic. So I bought a 2 pound bag of dried chickpeas for $2.49 at the grocery store on my street and soaked a cup of them overnight, then boiled them for about 45 minutes the next day. The batch came out way creamier than the canned version, which I did not expect at all, and I got enough hummus to fill two big containers instead of one. I froze the extra and it thawed fine a few days later, no weird texture or anything. The only downside is you have to plan ahead since the soaking takes like 8 hours, so it is not a spur of the moment thing. Has anyone else switched to dried beans for stuff like this, and do you bother with the baking soda trick people mention for softer skins?
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logan_robinson851d ago
This is the same thing that happened with coffee and bread. People pay for the can or the bag because it saves time, then act shocked when the raw ingredients cost almost nothing. A bag of dried beans is like the cheapest protein in the store and it lasts forever in the pantry. Same deal with rice, oats, dry pasta. The can tax is real and it adds up fast over a year. Once you see it you can't unsee it.
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