Best dried lentils according to redditors
We found 22 Reddit comments discussing the best dried lentils. We ranked the 16 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 22 Reddit comments discussing the best dried lentils. We ranked the 16 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
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I've had great experiences with these green lentils, which have an awesome almost-peppery flavor just on their own. If you're looking for a creamier curry (lentil mush vs. recognizable individual lentils), these are pretty good red lentils. I also grabed these brown lentils, but haven't tried them in a curry yet.
Just a head's up: if you don't eat a lot of legumes, you might find that lentils give you some... flatulence. This is best avoided by rinsing the lentils very well, or by just eating more lentils -- the body adjusts pretty quickly in my experience.
Truly an incredible, delicious food!
You probably get enough soy in your diet... I would check out something like this to get a good combo of beans with good protein and nutrients. I'm not anti-soy, but it's in damn near everything so I think it's good to mix it up with other beans. Sprouting the beans I linked is pretty easy and it's supposed to do great things for the nutrients.
That being said, $2.39 is pretty decent. Whole Foods isn't often the best in their dried bulk food items but if you catch a sale you can get good deals.
What I learned as a college senior supporting myself on about $150/week (including rent): lunchables are fucking expensive. Lentils are where it's at - you can get 108 oz of fancy-ass lentils off Amazon for $21.37, and the cheap ones at the grocery stores around here are maybe half that expensive. Nutritious, and they last, too.
I’m heading into a similar situation soon. I have a big backpack cooler from the Polar Bear brand that keeps food cold all day in my car:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EHA83E4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_z4aGDbZ8TFBNT
There’s many brands of microwave rice and lentils that can be stored in room temp:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0722PCR2Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_16aGDbEPKHJPC
Since I use the microwave a lot I’m considering buying one of these:
Tomorrow's Kitchen Single Serve Steamer - Grey https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XY2QBLP/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_R0aGDb8RPCQVV
Glass and silicone is a bit more resilient in the microwave and easier to clean.
>Who decided that every single thing has to come wrapped in plastic?
Consumers did. Plastics are durable, long-lasting, and cheap to make. They keep food fresher as well. When these products were created and provided to consumers as an option, consumers considered them superior in quality and in cost.
But that's not all. Plastics had enormous impacts on all manner of daily life -- military applications, scientific applications, it provided us the ability to travel to space for example.
All of this due to plastics.
Nobody "decided" independently any of this. The material turned out to be highly useful and important and cost-effective and now it's used.
>Who decided that everybody should have a personal vehicle?
Consumers did. Henry Ford took an enormous gamble to create the assembly-line method of creating vehicles to lower the cost because most people considered it a ridiculous notion that people would be driving around in cars or that people wouldn't be using public transportation methods.
But it turns out consumers like having a personal vehicle and when it became affordable for more people to have it, they bought it.
It's really that simple.
>Who keeps pushing for the use of more and more bottled products for hyper-specific purposes?
People buy bottled water because they find it convenient, fast, and easily within reach. You do not have to use bottled-water products if you do not want to.
>Who decided to artificially limit the useful life of household appliances?
Consumers decided they want to upgrade appliances, especially when appliances themselves. New versions of microwaves are better than old versions, so people buy the new version. Same is true for blenders and refrigerators and TVs and diswashers and so on and so forth.
If you're referring to "planned obsolescence" such as lightbulbs for example, competing lightbulb manufacturers quickly arose to offer light-bulbs that last years longer and consumers have the choice to buy them. Many last five to ten years.
If you're referring to "perceived obsolescence" as in a change in appearance or name or branding and so on is the only real difference to the product, I think that doing that is not a big deal. Upgrading your brand or packaging is what businesses do sometimes. It's up to you as the consumer to decide if you want the "new" version or not.
>You blame it on the public that there's literally no alternative
You have a clear alternative. You can reject all modern life and then walk off into the woods never to be seen again. That is your alternative.
Consumers MAKE the market, not the service or product creators. All a product or service creator does is INTRODUCE the product or service to the marketplace (you) and then the consummers (the market) decides whether or not they want to buy it.
So when a company like Tesla decides they can GET RICH offering electric cars to the population and work for years trying to streamline battery technology in order to dramatically reduce the cost to consumers...
Then it's up to YOU whether or not you buy one when it becomes more affordable. If you, the consumer market, finds the cost attractive and the car worth it to buy, then you will buy it. Period.
When people hurrying at a frenzied pace to get meat alternatives to a viable consumer point such as lab grown meat and iron-infused veggie burgers...
And it hits the market and is affordable and grocery stores and restaurant chains begin offering it and marketing companies create campaigns that resonate with people...
Then you will BUY it. And then it will become normal.
>when big companies have been pressuring the whole economy for decades to drive out independent actors and traditional ways of doing things.
That's not how any of this works. Companies don't become "big" unless lots of people like their product and service so much they keep buying it, thus making the company big.
>Nowadays every time I buy lentils I have to throw in the trash a single-use plastic.
Here's a giant burlap sack of lentils you can have delivered straight to your door via Amazon (you have consumer options): https://www.amazon.com/Non-GMO-Project-Verified-Non-Irradiated-Certified/dp/B001PEZLCW/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=dry+lentils&qid=1557917341&s=arts-crafts&sr=1-2-catcorr
>Only the supplier profits off of this, and only large-scale suppliers.
No, the consumer profits from it too because it lowers the cost. It also keeps food fresher longer.
>The public is a mine for the lust for obscene profits of corporate executives
If you want to start a business, you must create a product or offer a service that people want and are willing to pay for. There is no other conceivable way to create a successful business.
You as the consumer have all of the power and choice. The only thing a business can do is hope you choose them.
You're being ridiculous.
>If it wasn't like this, companies wouldn't have to constantly push new doodads through overblown advertising campaigns.
If a business doesn't make money, it cannot continue operating.
If people don't like the "doo-dads" the company is offering, they will go out of business.
You have full 100% autonomous choice in what "doo-dads" you think are worth it enough to spend your money on.
Nobody is forcing you.
Lentils are cheap AF on Amazon:
Whole Foods definitely has them in the chain, but if your whole foods doesn't amazon does
I'm going to assume you mean "green lentils".
Luckily this is easier than you might think: A company's value takes both their bank balance, and their non-liquid assets (contracts, rings, belts, etc), and since WWE is a publicly-traded company, its value is public information, and is currently at about 2.760 billion dollars.
A quick amazon search shows me that green lentils can be sold for between $4.00 and $6.00 per pound, so I'm going to say $5 per lb of lentils, means that you need to sell 552 million pounds of lentils.
Unfortunately I don't have a direct conversion anywhere I can find for how many lentils are in a pound, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it's at least 100, probably more, so at least 552 billion lentils need to be sold, probably a lot more.
If you want to estimate costs of items in pound-of-lentil increments, you just need to divide their price in USD by 5. So a fully custom title belt is going to run you a good $200 when it's not on sale, so because you want 5 belts, and we're dividing that by 5, you need to sell 200 pounds of lentils to get all 5 belts, or 40 pounds of lentils per belt (probably a few more pounds of lentils for shipping as well).
A 20' x 20' ring is going to run you a good $8-10 thousand, so 1600-2000 pounds of lentils for your ring.
Paying John Cena is gonna cost you $10 million per year, so in that year you need to sell 2 million pounds of lentils.
Chana dal. Urad dal is white and smaller. Will alter the profile somewhat and make it less thick.
Dals in India are like chilis in Mexico: there are way too many to keep track of at first.
EDIT: Here it is on Amazon.
Considering you could buy 30 lb of lentils extra a month from your lentil fund. You shouldn't even have to ask, you pauperised fuck.
Well like I said starting small is really the best way. Try doing one vegetarian meal a week, which will give you the opportunity to try new recipes, so you can start learning new flavors, without being overwhelming trying to do it every night.
Italian or Chinese noodles would be a great place to start!
You can always do a pasta with veggies and marinara sauce. Even with just jarred sauce you can bulk it out a bunch by sauteing fresh onions, garlic, carrots, peppers, zucchinis, mushrooms in a pot, then add the sauce and simmer them for 10 minutes before adding the cooked pasta.
Chinese is also a good starting point. Many Chinese restaurants will have all the same sauces and veggie combos available with fried tofu instead of meat. Or at home you can buy bags of frozen stir fry vegetables. Stir fry with garlic and ginger and some chow mein noodles and finish with soy sauce for a super simple dish to make at home.
The beans/lentils are good for protein which is why they're so common if you're really going full vegetarian, but if you just want to try starting vegetarian cooking one night a week then don't worry about it, you'll get plenty of protein the rest of the week. If you want to some you can try a vegetarian bean chili for a familiar flavor profile (unless you're from Texas and find this to be blasphemy lol). Here's a recipe, this whole blog is all vegetarian recipes as well: https://cookieandkate.com/2015/vegetarian-chili-recipe/
If you want to you can try putting 1/2 cup of dried red lentils into the marinara and veggie sauce and simmering for 20 minutes. It will look a bit like a pseudo bolognese. Also if you want to start branching out and your grocery store doesn't have things you want to try, like bulk beans or spices or sauces, you can always order things off good ol' Amazon, such as https://www.amazon.com/Arrowhead-Mills-Organic-Lentils-Packaging/dp/B00CLATJMW/ref=sr_1_4_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1541553946&sr=8-4&keywords=red+lentils
Truroots Organic Accents Sprouted Lentil Trio, 8 Ounce - 6 per case. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FC77HW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_FKMtDb7PRQ6B9
Choose the lentils carefully. Perhaps you were using Pidgeon Peas, which require a pressure cooker (or over 1 hour of cooking time) to soften.
Some varieties cook much easier than others. I recommend red lentils from Bob's Red Mill. Pour them into a pot of boiling water (I use a 2:1 ratio of water:lentils), then cover and let it simmer for ~20 minutes. You will be rewarded with tasty, wholesome thick mush.
Some lentils for soup would be really handy. I lost everything in my fridge and freezer when my power went out for a couple days and I've been playing catch-up on making batches of stuff for freezing.
I'd go with the other poster's suggestion of using mturk.com. The money can be used on Amazon without having to wait to get it into your bank account. Get at least $25 in the account, then you can get some cheap protein without having to pay shipping.
This is a pretty decent price on lentils if you use the subscribe and save: http://www.amazon.com/Bobs-Red-Mill-Lentils-27-Ounce/dp/B004VLVK4O Lentils can be sprouted to add a bit of variety and extra nutrition.
Peanut butter is stupidly expensive on Amazon, but, this is a better deal than some of the others on offer: http://www.amazon.com/JIF-Peanut-Butter-Creamy-Pack/dp/B001KU2TZI/
How are you on herbs and spices? They can make a huge difference in the palatability of your food over time.
Well, these work out to around US$10/lb.
Try in Nepali, Indian, Bangladesh, Pakistan Grocery Store. You might find there or try online. Online from amazon might be expensive.
You may want to use Kabuli Chana Dal in the future. This is an Indian product that is pre-skinned and can be used directly. Note: the Kabuli part is important, as it is a different variety of chick pea than is commonly used for the more common Chana Dal. It can be found here - https://www.amazon.com/Pride-India-Indian-Garbanzo-Protein/dp/B01N347PRM/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=kabuli%2Bchana%2Bdal&qid=1567435196&s=gateway&sr=8-3&th=1
I'm waiting for Words of Radiance, which also comes out tomorrow. When I got home, there was a super heavy Amazon box waiting for me.
I got excited because I'd seen this post on reddit, and thought hey maybe they accidentally sent me my book early!
Nope. It was just lentils :(
McDonalds is NOT a good way to cut your food budget. I can't imagine what you would eat there to get breakfast/lunch/dinner under $5 total.
Yes, definitely start cooking. Here's a very quick, easy, cheap, and tasty vegetarian (high protein!) dinner:
Pick up a bag of Bob's Red Mill TVP for $2.79 at the grocery store, and follow this recipe minus the fresh red pepper (I'm lazy), grab a pack of tortillas and some sour cream. One batch will give you tacos for dinner for about 4-5 days, and that won't even use up the whole package of TVP. That's like $3 for 4 days of dinner! (Since discovering this, I bought 15lb of TVP in bulk from nuts.com which is like 60% the price of individual store packs but does require I have somewhere to store it)
And here's a delicious lentil dish I've taken to making. I usually double it because leftovers make the next day easier or provide lunch:
Heat the oil, then add the scallions (note: if you don't chop up the white part, you can put it in water or a pot on the window sill and grow more) and stir them around until they are lightly browned. Add the spices and stir over heat for a minute so it smells all nice. Stir the lentils in. Add the water, reduce heat to low, and let it cook for 20-25 minutes. Add the salt at the end.
Here's another taco recipe using black beans and sweet potatoes.
Risotto's a good easy dinner that you can make in large batches to last a few days and just toss in whatever frozen veggies your grocery store has on sale.
Eggs are a good cheap breakfast.
And think really hard about whether that $720/yr in weed is really worth it. Heck, the weed munchies probably aren't helping the food budget.