On Tue, 29 Dec 2015 21:55:33 -0800, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>> 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.
>
>I don't know why they are so hard to find now but they sure are. I have to
>plan in advance if I want to make baked beans now because I can go to two or
>three different stores and come up empty. Then when I do find them, I can
>never remember where it was that I found them.

Reasonably priced:
http://shop.honeyville.com/small-whi...eans-25lb.html
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...r_1_32&sr=8-32
I paid $1.69/lb for store brand at my local market... but it cost me
at least $2 for gas... Amazon is free shipping, Honeyville is $5
shipping on any size order, plus they got me for $20 worth of
groceries I wouldn't have bought and really didn't need at the moment
had I not been there. Twenty five pounds of dried beans is like a
nothing if you're Hispanic... can always split it with a neighbor,
that's what I did with 50 lb sacks of steel cut oats from
Honeyville... I happen to have a neighbor who's a good Irish Catholic,
has six kids and a slew of grands, she took half of my bag and another
whole bag.