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On 12/30/2015 11:01 AM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
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> 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,


Whatever.

> plus they got me for $20 worth of
> groceries I wouldn't have bought and really didn't need at the moment


Were you sitting there in front of the monitor, hungry? Thinking, "Oh,
that looks good. Yes, add that to my cart, too!"

> Twenty five pounds of dried beans is like a
> nothing if you're Hispanic...


Of course you know so many Hispanic people. LOL

> 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.
>

Sure. Did the Irish neighbor with all the children and grands tell you
they needed oats? I cannot think of any reason why you would buy 50 lb.
sacks of steel cut oats. Perhaps you're feeling a tad irregular...

Jill