I am just wondering do you eat green beans? I love them I eat maybe a cup a day and they are low in carb :P

I sure do! I usually saute them in butter. They are served often at my house. Induction legal too.

I have atleast 1 cup a day and they keep the bowels going too

I don't have them daily but several times a week. I eat one cup also as I am still trying, for the most part, to stay at induction level carbs.

WHEN YOU SPEAK OF GREEN BEANS ARE THEY FRESH GREEN BEANS, FROZEN GREEN BEANS I DON'T THINK THAT THEY WOULD BE CANNED GREEN BEANS ARE THEY?
JUST WONDERING,
OREGON GIRL

Nothing beats fresh beans when they are in season, like right now.

As an interesting side note, those folks who follow paleo eating plans do not eat green or wax beans. When left to mature, the seeds turn into a starchy legume.

Karen

After eating them so much at visits to my mother in law's house I HATED green beans for years.

Then, after being on this diet I started having cravings for them! I never had cravings for green beans in my entire life!

We eat fresh ones (10 fresh green beans = 2 carbs) at least once a week here, this week we had them twice with my two favorite recipes:

green beans boiled lightly (4 min) then flushed with cold water then sauteed with olive oil and garlic and topped with parmeasn. YUM!

green beans boiled lightly, flushed with cold water, mixed with olive oil, red wine vinegar, blue cheese, red onion, and toasted pecans

This low carbing has made me passionate about green beans!

I grow dwarf stringless green beans in my veg patch and couldn't do without them. As a paleo living in Australia I have pointed out elsewhere that our local paleo people (aborigines) ate quite a few varieties of legumes.
Still do.

The paleo diet "plan" states that early humans wouldn't have eaten legumes because many varieties were poisonous and they wouldn't have had the expertise to detoxify them.

Aussie aborigines, in only 60 thousand years, have managed to find ways of detoxifying lots of native foods, so I think that our ancestors of a million years would have done similarly.

However, in agreement with the previous post, I draw the line at cans and cans of baked beans in tomato sauce!!

Michael Gardner
Bribie Island
Queensland

I grow pole beans in my garden... they are delicious steamed and served with butter and a little salt.

For something a little different .... try steaming your green beans, fresh, of course, with a couple of slices of bacon on top. Disguard the bacon after steaming. Really Yummy!!!

I love Green Beans Almondine, and it's really simple to make. Steam 1 lb fresh or frozen beans until tender. While the beans are cooking, saute' 1/2 c sliced almonds in 4 tbsp butter until golden. Drain the beans, toss with the almonds and butter, season to taste (I usually add a big pinch of tarragon), and serve.

I love fresh green bean made with cut up bacon and chopped garlic

SO YUMMY!! (I wish I had some now)

question here, how long does it take for green beens to mature and "turn into starchy legumes" according to Karen?

I can't give you a definite time frame but I can tell you what to look for. Beans left to mature on the plant will develop a large seed. The longer they are left on the plant, the bigger theseed will grow and the stringier the pod. You see this in fresh, out of season beans sometimes. The outer pod is quite stringy and the bean on the inside is large and chewy.

More bean recipes here.

Karen

If you leave some beans on the vine and let them go to seed (get the large bean in them), letting the outside pod get dry, you can save those beans and plant them the next year.

We used to garden every year and after letting the beans go to seed would wrap them in a paper towel and save for the next year. Nothing beats fresh green beans -- yummmmm!