I have always thought of beans as a frugal food

I noticed that too because I use all kind of beans for various dishes. The lower price was how I got my husband to agree to get them more often, but still lower in price than meat..

I am not fond of eating beans as it is starchy sometimes and i do not like it but last night we had beans, those little green beans we call here "monggos" which i sauteed with some veggies, it is a bit cheap here and can be bought for less than one dollar..

They are getting more and more expensive but so is everything else. Beans are still a great source of protine and cheaper then meat so we are going to keep on eating them. We buy them in huge bulk bags to get them cheaper per pound. They have a great shelf life. We watch for prices to go down and stock up then.

Yes, everyone used to buy beans because they were so cheap. That most definitely is not the case anymore! It's just as cheap to buy them already made in a can. In fact, with sales and coupons it's cheaper to buy them in a can. You don't even have to worry about anything but heating them up! Marsha

Beans are alot more expensive than they used to be in my country too. But they are still an inexpensive way of eating proteins. They are also filling and they tate SO good, no matter how you make them. I buy usually a kilo of dry beans, soak them and cook all of them in the pressure cooker. I prepare what I need and save portions in the freezer. They last a long time (not at my house because I eat them)

In the area that I live in, I do still think that beans are a very frugal choice when it comes to a protein to have in your meal. It is still less than two dollars here to get a pound of beans and then I will typically pair them with some corn bread and some slices of onion (with a little bit of ham thrown in the beans to give them more flavor). This is a meal that I am able to feed my entire family for less than five dollars.

I'm buying less beans because of the high price in this area. Presently, been buying more potatoes and rice, as they are affordable and very filling. I am even considering growing potatoes in my back yard, as my garden has been growing fast with the heat we are getting now.

we generally only buy beans in the winter to throw into chili and so i haven't been following their prices. i generally find that pasta is cheaper and so we have spaghetti fairly often (its even cheaper if you don't have meat in the sauce). here where i live, it seems the price of food is steadily going up anyways, so the price of beans going up, it doesn't really surprise me at all.

Me and my husband eat alot of beans we took a old icecream bucket and filled it up with beans and yeah I have noticed that they have went up I just went to the store and paid $1.13 for a small bag of white beans even though they are going up it does not take much for us so we still use them for the fiber.

They used to be.. I dont' like beans, but they used to be cheaper staple..but everything is going up. The drought in the midwest..worst in 50 years..has caused alot of food problems and come this fall...you will see MANY things go up in price if you can find them at all.

Even if the price has gone up a bit, beans are still a healthy and inexpensive food. If you are concerned about the rising prices and have the space for it, you may want to find a good bulk price and stock up. If stored properly, dried beans can last for a couple of years.

The prices of dry beans are going up because production was down in 2011 and it's expected to be down this year, too. The pinto bean crop is supposed to be short even though they are predicting a huge increase in the number of acres they're being grown on. I don't plan to replace them with anything less expensive. My strategy right now is to stock up when I find a really great sale on them. They have a great shelf life, so I just bring them home and store them in airtight canisters until I'm ready to use them.

Hi sedel, I do eat bean and many varities...But since I have purchased dried beans in a while because I use a lot of can beans,,,I normallly cook the meat in my crock pot and then rinse the beans and add them to the meat.. But I am really not surprised of the rise in price of beans because everything is going up in price, I mean everything.

We've been eating a lot of beans recently, because I can stretch them further than what I can a can of beans. I make a lot of different foods with them and I'm pretty happy with the cost. I buy the majority of my foods at Walmart and I can pick up a bag of beans for around $1.08. I always buy the Great Value brand too, which is the store brand for Walmart. I would still buy the beans even if they were that high priced because the cheapest I can get 1 can of beans is like .89 cents and that can is only two servings. We would have to have two cans to feed four of us. A bag of beans is 1/4 cup per serving, so it would still be worth it to buy the dried beans.

They are going up, just like everything else. With the corn crop not doing good, the price of that, along with meat is supposed to go way up. It is scary. I am not sure how people that are struggling are going to make it.

I do eat fresh and dried beans. In our country, Philippines, the price of beans is not steady. Sometimes the green beans just dry up and the dried beans left to seed borers due to over supply because of the absence of farmer organizations for plant timing coordination. Then, comes a time wherein the commodity's price goes rocketing uncontrollably. This goes with other vegetables whose prices fluctuate periodically.