Thanks to a comment from a reader, I have an additional source for dry beans. I can find the “normal” beans in town but I can’t find anything other than very basic beans. Kroger used to have cranberry beans and I never pass the bean selection at the grocery stores that I don’t look to see if they have cranberry beans.
Frieda mentioned Rancho Gordo Beans so I found them online and they have all kinds of beans. I placed an order for three pounds each of lila beans, cranberry beans and yellow eye beans, which were also recommended by a reader in a comment. I’m going to try the yellow eye beans first!
Their beans are quite a bit more expensive than what I can buy in the store so I won’t be ordering anything except the beans I can’t find locally but it is nice to have a source for the not so common (in my area) beans.
I love it when readers recommend things they’ve tried and loved. Thank you Frieda and Osage Bluff Quilter. To Osage Bluff Quilter, do you buy the beans locally or do you order them? Thanks!
I’m happy to have a source for dry beans, especially the ones I can’t buy locally.
Osage Bluff Quilter says
We buy the cranberry and the yellow eyed beans at a Mennonite market in Versailles Missouri.
Judy Laquidara says
Thanks! That one is a bit far but maybe I’ll get over there some day when I’m in MO.
Christi says
They have the best beans in the world. Also did you know cranberry beans have twice the protein content? Bob’s Red Mill also has some great beans.
Carol says
twice the protein content of what other bean? curious–and have never heard of the yellow eyed.
Judy Laquidara says
Compare them (via google) to any bean you want to see. It’s a bit hard to get a really accurate picture because you have to compare cooked to cooked, same portion size but compared to pinto beans, cranberry beans have way more protein.
Cranberry beans are the same as borlotti beans which I have grown here and still have a few jars that I canned a couple of years ago.