For the Love of Better Beans!

Hello Food Bloggers! How lucky we are to come together and share our love of food and our love of beans. I am so excited to connect with all of you! We want to form dynamic partnerships to blast beans into kale-dom!  

For the Love of Beans

Better Bean is sharing its love of beans with the world! We know beans don’t always have the best rap. So we’ve added extra love to our recipes so even the most bean-wary eater will discover a love of beans. I can’t count how many people I have converted into bean eaters with our special cooking method and flavors. Sometimes, the caramelization of ingredients gets them. Other times, it’s the bean’s digestibility, which thanks to the apple cider vinegar we add to every batch makes them easy to eat. The fresh bean experience is what makes all the difference. We cook our beans in small batches, seal them in tubs and send them right into the refrigerator -- just like you would save leftovers in a container. Better Beans, fresh and full of nutrition, are found alongside fresh salsa and hummus.

Fueled by Beans

I love Better Beans because they provide delicious quick nutrition and energy that lasts all day long. Because beans are so high in fiber (both soluble and insoluble), our bodies digest them more slowly, providing us with sustained energy and nutrition – think the tortoise rather than the hare. In fact, after four years of regular consumption, I still crave Better Beans.

I recently gave birth to a beautiful 10-pound baby boy. Better Beans, along with kale smoothies, helped fuel my pregnancy and now fuels my breastfeeding. I’m not sure I would have grown such a healthy baby without the constant nutrition Better Beans provided me. When you are busily working while pregnant, hunger can sneak up on you, and during my first trimester, if I didn’t eat something right away, I was sick to my stomach. So our morning routine became Better Bean Breakfast Burritos.

Back in my super busy bean production days, I even had days where I ate a tub of our Three Sisters Chili while driving to our production kitchen at 6 a.m. And boy oh boy, would these breakfast beans keep me working strong during full-day shifts.

Our vision however, is not that you scarf down our beans between meetings. We want to empower our consumers to have sit-down meals with their family and friends. With Better Beans, a taco dinner can be served in 15 minutes and be as tasty and healthy as if you spent all day cooking beans from scratch.

Regardless of whether you enjoy Better Beans as a dip, side or meal, we are sure you will enjoy them to the last bite!

Better Bean Breakfast Burrito for Two

There are many ways to make a breakfast burrito. Usually, how I make one depends on how much time I have (cooking down greens take a little longer) and what  ingredients are in the fridge (tomatoes? green onions?). And then, there are five amazing Better Bean options. They’re all delicious in breakfast burritos. I’ll give you my favorite version and you can come up with your own.

In one pan, cook down baby kale with a little water. Add garlic powder and salt to taste. Heat another skillet with a tablespoon of oil. When hot, add 1 tub Uncanny Refried Black Beans (my fave!). Let the beans brown. Remove beans or push to the side. In the same pan scramble 4 eggs. Chop 2 medium tomatoes. Wrap all the ingredients into a flour or gluten-free tortilla and douse with your favorite hot sauce, if you need a little kick in the morning.

Enjoy!

Hannah Kullberg (aka Bean Queen)

The Better Bean Company

www.betterbeanco.com