For The Love of Beans & it's Varieties

This topic though, I hope we are just joking, I hope this is all a show and never going to be a reality thing because I'm definitely not one to stick to one meal for a week, not to ask for my whole life dependent on one kind of food.

I remember one week I had to eat only rice meals, that is rice in different preparation and tastes. I won't say I didn't enjoy the meals but eating beans the next day after the week ended, I can still remember how emotional I got until the last spoon of the beans lol.

My love for beans is second to none but my native soup comes first though 🙄

Since I can't live on the soup, I figured the next meal I could make do with for a long time is Beans and I won't get tired of it. The reasons are obvious, it is the variety that beans provides.

_{Pardon my wacky photo of Beans}

How I came to enjoy beans in any form it is prepared is still a puzzle unsolved, what's important is the satisfaction it gives me whenever I prepare or eat it. In a time when I have to rely on beans for survival, I won't feel bad about it at least not for the first few years lol.

Humans needs all classes of food to stay healthy and I've researched enough to know that Beans well prepared and even in different forms, do contain almost all classes. So yeah, my first reason to choose beans is the health benefits I'll get to enjoy even with the limited meal options I have.

I can eat my beans different combos for different tastes and feel satisfied. The combinations will help me have different menu even though they are all made of beans.

One of the combos is beans and bread or garri. The taste with beans is a memorable one for me, I can live with that taste for a week if worse comes to worse before I change the combo 😅

Another variety I could have with beans is turning it to beans cake (akara) or beans puddling (moi moi). These beans transformation are just it, how the tastes changes with them is unexplainable.

My favourite combo with beans is Pap and I'm sure I won't get tired of it even if I might get tired of the other combos. There's a story behind this. I didn't like pap growing up so it's always custard for me until one day when I tried drinking pap with my family since there was no other food to eat.

Since that day, I've felt like I've been cheated for so long so I started to abuse pap and beans or pap and bread 😅 but my favourite is with the beans so I'm definitely exploring that one taste for the long time I have to depend on beans.

I don't pray that it comes to such a time when I have to depend on only beans but then, if it has to, beans is my go-to meal for all the reasons it was created in this world.

_{This is my response to the Hive naija weekly prompt and I'm inviting you to participate as well.}

Images used in this post are mine