How to incorporate more legumes into my diet?!
But I don't want to be eating chili and hummus endlessly. I'd like some variety.
Can you give me some ideas of how you use beans in your cooking/eating?
Answers:
I do many things with beans. One thing that everyone in my household likes is spaghetti or other pasta with beans in the tomato sauce. Pinto beans work well for that because they hide well. I also make 10 bean soup, and beans with rice on the side or mixed in.
If you want to eat more beans, you can do black beans and rice, black bean burritos, etc. A lot of Cuban/Mexican/Latin food uses beans. Just make sure whoever makes it doesn't use lard or animal foods. Chipotle has black bean tacos and burritos you can make vegan.
Indian food incorporates chick peas, and Ethiopian food also incorporates split peas, lentils, and other beans/legumes.
Look at a cooking website and look at recipes calling for beans, and you will find ways of cooking them.
Try making bean burritos. You can mix a ton of different types together and melt some cheese in it (if you eat cheese) and drizzle some salsa over everything to give it more flavor. REALLY easy to put together. Or you could just eat beans plain.They're actually really good on their own. Sometimes i just have a pile of beans in place of whatever meat the rest of my family is having. Or you could mix them together with rice. I haven't tried it yet, but my mom gave me the idea and it sounds really good to me.
me and my vegetarian mind.
Legumes is French for vegetables. So I will disregard everything you said and believe that you just want to know how to eat more vegetables. The answer is simple, start eating more vegetables.