{"id":3982,"date":"2009-03-03T12:05:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T16:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2009-03-03T12:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T16:05:05","slug":"tuesday-tip-drain-and-rinse-canned-veggies-and-beans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/03\/tuesday-tip-drain-and-rinse-canned-veggies-and-beans\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tip: Drain and rinse canned veggies and beans"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Please

Please Rinse me off<\/p><\/div>\n

I’m probably one of the few people who actually like Rachael Ray.\u00a0 I say this because it seems like most people give her a lot of crap for just being her and that’s kind of sucky.\u00a0 Now don’t get me wrong, there are a few things she does that are sort of annoying.\u00a0 And okay, yes my husband and I created a drinking game for 30 minute meals, but that really isn’t important at this stage.\u00a0 To give you an example of something she does that sort of makes me cringe, is when she uses canned beans.\u00a0 She drains the beans into her garbage bowl (which also baffles me, but whatever) and then into the dish the beans go.<\/p>\n

This makes me turn into teh cra-ZY!\u00a0 Here’s the deal, canned beans and canned veggies tend to have a good bit of sodium attached to them for preservation purposes.\u00a0 And beans tend to have what seems like sludge in the bottom of the cans (black and chick peas are the worst offenders) and quite frankly, I don’t want to eat sludge.\u00a0 Also, that’s where the sodium lives!\u00a0 And a good idea is to reduce that as much as possible.<\/p>\n

In order to do that, you’ve gotta rinse the stuff off.\u00a0 I dump the beans or veggies, in a strainer that sits in the sink.\u00a0 Then I give them a good rinse for about a minute or so.\u00a0 Shaking and jostling everything around so that I can get all the pieces rinsed.\u00a0 Only then can I feel good about using and eating them.\u00a0 Ms. Ray sometimes will tell you that the stuff in the can of beans can help thicken up your dish.\u00a0 And a part of me dies inside when I see her do this.<\/p>\n

Please do not use the bean sludge to help thicken up anything!\u00a0 Rinse them off and help get rid of some of that sodium.\u00a0 We just don’t need it!\u00a0 Canned veggies don’t typically have sludge like beans, but they still get a good rinse from me.<\/p>\n

Next time you use canned beans or veggies, make sure to give them a good shower first.\u00a0 And if you see DoubleR not doing that, it’s two drinks down the hatch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m probably one of the few people who actually like Rachael Ray.\u00a0 I say this because it seems like most people give her a lot of crap for just being her and that’s kind of sucky.\u00a0 Now don’t get me wrong, there are a few things she does that are sort of annoying.\u00a0 And okay, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-12e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}