Dried beans never softened for me, so I'm done with that budget tip

I followed all the steps to cook dried beans to save money. They stayed hard and ruined my planned stew for the week. Has anyone else found that canned beans are more reliable for tight budgets?

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the_alice18d ago

Totally get the hard water thing, it's wild how one little detail wrecks the whole plan. I've seen this happen with so much stuff where people follow all the steps but miss that one basic fix, like with old baking soda or phone updates.

morgan.abby18d ago

Oh man, I read something about that... hard water with lots of minerals can actually stop beans from getting soft. My cousin had the same issue and tried it with a bottle of plain drinking water once as a test, and it worked... maybe your water is just too hard? Kind of a pain to deal with though.