What's more healthy than red beans and rice?

[Anonymous]

Being an Austinite I haven't had this dish in a longtime. Some older ladies serving at my Mawmaw's funeral got upset when I turned down red beans and rice because it wasn't healthy.

I realize I was wrong but that was just my knee jerk reaction. It didn't even have any meat in it and Cajuns are actually extremely healthy people. But it was never something my Mawmaw fed us. She had an amazing garden so while we are rice we never ate beans. She did feed us purple hulls fresh from her garden and I learned how to make them before she died. It's the best thing on Earth!!!

do you think red beans and rice with no sausage is healthy? To me an eater of greens, seldom consumer of wheat and processed food it is actually healthy.

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[Voice]

No red beans are unhealthy' beans were made in the 18th century which is the 1700's by Gregor mandel. You mentioned wheat rice... wheat was also made... it is the findel or fendel that is natural not wheat inwhich is nothing but starch and sugar. The fendel made Tef, the algir bread etc. the wheat kernel came from hybridization that came from the almorads' inwhich is alkalinic. It should not matter how many generations are eating what is being called food today and calling it culture... eventually it will all be a matter of choice not unawareness.

[Asker]

So what do you prefer to eat?

[Voice]

Good question... instead of wheat rice, search out for wild rice it comes in two flavors I'm sure of.. Black rice and Red rice... this is what you call real rice not wheat rice and certainly not that damn white bleached rice. wild rice isn't spices add to make it black, not spices added to make it red' that is how it comes by nature. Also to replace beans, you can eat chick peas' chick peas are organic and ot alkalinic, also green peas' remember I said beans were made' I did not say peas were. Please don't believe me check it out' and don't believe anyone else either check it out. That will replace the beans and rice, and also prevent you from getting arthritis, gout and cancer from the acidic precancerous free radicals that turns flesh into a body of puss... you follow.

[Asker]

Cajuns eat a mix of red, black and whole grain rice. I do like Hummus. But in the pea form I prefer purple hulls. They are yum.

Also arthritis is an autoimmune disease of unknown cause you aren't the authority on deciding what causes it and how to prevent it.

[Voice]

you suppose to say think you for the answers you receive'... arthritis is known from the lack of circulation of the arteries causing pain' the oxygen is blocked by starch' this is why arthritis patients are given vice grips to use or even thermo kelation for the hands to excrete some of the starch in which melts the bone marrow down to puss through the pors of the body. I was only helping and I have background in what I type here in field research and degree' not a arm chair position study on the computer only... and the rice I spoke of isn't for a particular group of people only its for who ever want rice made by nature and not in a laboratory. you see it is the food that precipitates how we think' if we eat the wrong food we are gonna think the wrong way... your welcome.

[Flex4Ever]

All plant-based foods are healthy (Sugar is an exception and oils in moderation). So yes, rice and beans is a very nutritious meal.

[RachelBrigs]

Rice and beans provide full proteins and plenty of fiber. It's healthy, but obviously there's always a healthier thing than what you're eating, and almost no matter what you're eating there is some aspect to it that isn't healthy

[Asker]

I mean us gotta get your greens. You can't live in just red beans and rice. But if I look back at how my Mom's family ate 50 years ago it's no wonder they live into their 100's.

They were very poor as were many Cajuns. But they lived rich lives and ate well. The only processed food my Mawmaw ever had in her house her whole life was is cereal she bought because we liked it. Even her damn pickles were home canned by a neighbor. They seriously used to trade goods with each other. And my great grandmother used to slice and cook her own potato chips.

We never ate red beans and rice but it is a healthy dish the French just don't eat it.

It's sad that today mostly only well off people can afford to eat this way.

[RachelBrigs]

Yeah you need to eat vegetables, but you don't have to only ever eat veggies.

Beans and rice are extremely cheap by the way

[Asker]

Yes they are and have a long shelf life. I would love to see more people living in food deserts eat them. That's what made me think of it. It is something poor people can feed kids that keep them full and is better than McD's.

I just mean the way my Grandmother ate and fed her kids isn't possible for a lot of people. They had veggies from the garden every color of the rainbow. Poor people these days can't afford vegetables. I cook a lot and I have had assistants in my office tell me when I share a recipes that the vegetables are too expensive. It makes me sad.

[Anonymous]

Bean's and rice is literally one of my favorite meals ( Vegan though ), It's healthy! The bean's are filled with many vitamins and minerals, proteins and the rice is a perfect amount of carbohydrates.