beans and chick peas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I buy only Eden Organic canned beans--no salt added but more importantly, the sole canned food sold in the US without BPA.

FWIW - Muir Glen Organic went BPA free recently, too. I called the company a few weeks ago to confirm. Any cans WITHOUT the white lining inside the can are all BPA free. Mind you, they sell mostly canned tomatoes, but I recently found a new line of soups from them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've found that DS (11mo) will only eat what I would eat: meaning, if I wouldn't eat it because it's too plain, too dense, too whatever, then he probably won't either. We eat a lot of black beans and brown rice (with salsa and some sour cream mixed in), falafel, hummus, etc. DS does just fine with all of those. He gobbled up tofu parmesan the other day. HTH!

How do you make tofu parmesan? that sounds good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I buy only Eden Organic canned beans--no salt added but more importantly, the sole canned food sold in the US without BPA.

Same. I find that canned beans are the only ones soft enough for DD (although I will give the slow cooker a try!) OP, maybe you want to consider the texture. Are the beans you're trying soft enough?

DD liked all sorts of beans and chick peas plain at that age. And yes, I often cut kidney beans and chick peas in half before serving them to her back then. Probably overprotective, but she didn't cut her first tooth until her first birthday.

At some point soon after, I started giving her beans mixed with some rice and a bit of sauce (sweet and sour or BBQ or whatever else happened to be in the fridge.) She also grew to like lentils -- either plain or in those boxed Indian food mixes from Trader Joes -- and burrito filling (I make it with lots of beans, some rice, salsa, cheese etc.)

I'll third Eden Organic. There are definitely others with no salt added but I like these because of the BPA-free cans. They have them at Whole Foods and Safeway!

[Anonymous]

Wegman's also carries the Eden's Organic - I buy those and my DS will just munch on black beans plain or in quesadillas etc!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've found that DS (11mo) will only eat what I would eat: meaning, if I wouldn't eat it because it's too plain, too dense, too whatever, then he probably won't either. We eat a lot of black beans and brown rice (with salsa and some sour cream mixed in), falafel, hummus, etc. DS does just fine with all of those. He gobbled up tofu parmesan the other day. HTH!

How do you make tofu parmesan? that sounds good.

I'd like to know too! Sounds yummy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I buy only Eden Organic canned beans--no salt added but more importantly, the sole canned food sold in the US without BPA.

Most Trader Joe's cans are BPA-free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I buy only Eden Organic canned beans--no salt added but more importantly, the sole canned food sold in the US without BPA.

Most Trader Joe's cans are BPA-free.

This isn't accurate as far as I can tell. Do you have some links or something? I can't find any info on their cans being BPA free at all. At some point they had tetra (paper based) packs of tomatoes but they weren't cans and at any rate, I haven't seen them in a while.

[Anonymous]

If you are just worried about the salt and not the BPA - the Giant Brand Organic Ones have a lot less salt than others. Abour 5-6% versus 15-20%.