On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:37:57 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2015-12-29 20:58, Brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>>> Realizing how good they can be, I looked up some recipes and was all set
>>> to give them a try. I was planning to use a recipe that called for a
>>> pound of bacon. Today I had to go to a store to get some things for a
>>> pot luck family thing tomorrow and planned to get some bacon and some
>>> beans. I was surprised to find they did not have navy beans. They had
>>> pinto beans, kidney beans, black eye peas, yellow peas, green peas,
>>> several varieties of lentils, but no navy beans.
>>
>> They must've had Great Northerns, or Small Whites... look for the Goya
>> display, usually it's separate, even in a different aisle.
>>
>They were several varieties of legumes from Goya, but no navy beans and
>no Great Northern. I know that I have seen them lots of times when I was
>looking for split peas and lentils, but the one time in decades that I
>wanted to buy them... they did not have them.

This is the time of year when there's a run on dried beans, winter in
the north is soup making season... I couldn't find navy beans either
but I did find great northerns, and the stock on the shelf was low.
Next I'm at BJ's I will stock up, they sell dried beans in five pound
bags. When I lived on Long Island I shopped at Compare Markets, they
are heavy into Hispanic foods, they sell all sorts of beans in hundred
pound sacks, rice too. I miss that store, their produce section was
amazing... they catered to the Asian and Indian population too, they
carried produce I didn't know what it was and had no idea how to
prepare.
http://comparesupermarkets.com/