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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To all who are bashing beans and rice.  Chipotle is one of the most successful fast casuals, and 80% of a typical bowl (by weight) is beans and rice.  [/quote]

What's your point? It's beans and rice loaded with oil and salt to make it hyper palatable. Plus with all the other toppings loaded with oil and salt to make it hyper palatable. It's not healthy.

I could probably eat a Chipotle bowl every day and be pretty happy for a few weeks.

I could not force myself to eat a bowl of homemade beans and rice with a modest amount of butter and salt for more than a few days.

Cooking food that is at once inexpensive, healthy, and palatable takes at minimum, a significant amount of skill. It really also takes a well-stocked pantry with spices, condiments, etc.

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At home I cook onion, celery, garlic, and random other vegetable to go into the beans and rice, season with cumin and oregano. And I have some other dishes I make--bean soup, chile, lentil and rice salad, black bean, corn, avocado, tomato salad (if avocados are on sale). But I agree that it would be pretty monotonous to do all the time. [/quote]

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