Do you want fancy beans? Rancho Gordo online has fancy beans. They are, as they say, the leguminati.

For canned I use the ones from whole foods or go to specific ethnic markets. Chinese chefs use some crazy preparations I don’t usually like - fermented black beans ok in small amounts, but no no to red bean ice cream or any sweet preparation. And big no to Japanese natto, what are they even thinking?

But middle eastern markets have good canned favas, and spanish and italian markets here have lots of brands that aren’t Goya.

Enjoyment is an important part of healthy eating, and I believe simply not overeating is at least 75% of healthy eating, so wouldn’t really worry about it that much.

The soup is in this thread higher up, hardly a recipe it’s so easy - I don’t really like squash or sweet potatoes but love that soup, all the toppings.

Oh! I remembered this one too, might be more tasty to you if you are into cooking, my family keeps asking for it, but it’s not a weeknight thing, have to pull out the blender. Sopa Tarasca, at the bottom of this link. I have made it with canned beans and tomatoes and it’s just as good.

https://www.npr.org/2009/11/04/120062592/foods-of-michoacan-are-forever

Have you tried roasted chickpeas (garbanzos)? Also there is a chickpea flour that is used in Indian food. Not that this would be enough to get you the 2 cups or anything, but they are some much different tasting/feeling preparations that you might like ok or enjoy. Also the pumpkin soup I posted - the puree hides in that soup, nobody thinks it’s beans, the pumpkin is so strong of flavor the beans just cut that so it’s good not ungodly sweet.

I can imagine not liking beans, they do have a specific, really lovely to me, smooth and thick texture. The flavor I can’t really imagine not liking all of them, they are pretty different from each other.

Plenty of other foods have fiber just not as efficient as beans, you would have to eat a lot more to hit that health target.

I like white rice, and make bread with 65% white flour. But foods with fiber are delicious.

Beans, so good so many ways.

Fruits - raspberries, dates, apples, peaches, pears, mango, pineapple.

Greens- cooked collards or mustard greens are so tasty, salads can be so good tasting.

Onions and garlic make a good start to many meals and have a specific sort of fiber that is very good for you.

I like oatmeal.

But again - the total fiber needed for health is in two cups of beans. Just throw them in anything. Put them on your white rice, in your white flour tortillas. Garbanzos into sausage soups. Cannelini into pasta dishes. Hummus and falafel with your lamb and white flour pitas.

I guess just by eating them a lot my body adjusted?

Though I think also, you know how different bodies have different strengths and weaknesses - digestion seems to be my body’s strength, the one place I don’t usually have issues. Like no trouble eating meat after 20 years of vegetarian food, even. It doesn’t care. It’s weaknesses lie elsewhere.

Beans are perfect.

Refried pinto beans we eat with breakfasts or in burritos.

Black beans from cans, reheated with some cumin, salt, pepper, vinegar or jalapeno brine. My family (except for me) prefers black beans above all others.

Bonus easy recipe - get a can of cannelini beans and a can of pureed butternut squash or pumpkin. Heat these together with some olive oil, curry or berbere, salt. When they are hot, hit it with an immersion blender until it’s a puree and adjust the consistency to your preference with chicken broth, veg broth, or just water is ok.
Serve with lime slices, pepitas, queso fresco if you have it or a splash of cream or sour cream can also be good.

Beans. I know on Lemmy beans are memes, but beans are how to get enough fiber each day. 2 cups of cooked beans has the total fiber you need for a day, and it’s hard to get there without beans.

It takes about 3 -5 cups of cooked veggies to get the fiber that is in one cup of beans. So 1 cup of cooked beans and some greens with supper, a big salad for lunch and oatmeal with raspberries and yogurt for breakfast would get you there. And should leave room calorie wise for some meat and bread or rice or pasta.

My kids make fun of me for making beans for so many meals but delicious, cheap, healthy, they are an ideal food.

Oh, and speaking of Charley we were lucky enough to have the Charley Crockett/Leon Bridges show come through, holy crap, I’d seen both of them live before but getting TWO great performers in one night, wow. And that intersection between county and R&B is such pleasant music.

I saw Joshua Ray Walker open for Marcus King and didn’t even like his show but looked him up and found his recorded work to be incredible, THEN he found out he had cancer and that was part of why the live show was weak, nothing to do with his music, and says he is recovering now, but I felt so uncharitable thinking the show sucked when he was dealing with something so awful.

But anyway - I do use streaming but like you find bands other ways, opening acts, radio, sometimes Brooklyn Vegan, that site posts about bands I’ve never heard of, I listen and find stuff I like (and a lot I don’t).

https://www.floridahealth.gov/licensing-and-regulation/midwifery/index.html

Not nurse midwife - those deliver in hospital here. Certified licensed midwife.

Midwives here are licenced, I had most of my kids at home and the midwife could handle slight complications, and did. Babies die in hospital births too, I’m sure all experienced OBs have lost moms and babies, birth is not always safe. Midwives have better outcomes here but can (and are required to) turn down high risk clients so it’s not an apples to apples thing.

But they certainly aren’t like you are characterizing, they are very good specialist medical providers- is Canada so different?

ETA: with the first two we did not have insurance, midwife did a sliding scale billing according to income, with the second set I had insurance but preferred home birth. With two of them (the first and last) they would have come at home or in the car anyway, I had very short and intense labor, am close to hospitals but midwife got to me in 5 minutes, time to set up and catch the baby. With one I had to be induced so she still attended but at birth center not home.

Good. Pay us all overtime then, at time & a half.

I’m an accountant, but how TF is physical therapist not professional? 3 year grad school program for Doctor of Physical therapy, at 21k per year here. That is the education requirement. Then state licensing and jurisprudence exams, continuing education.

You know what isn’t a professional job here? Politician.

Our independents are conservative mostly, signs in front about Jesus and probably don’t even traffic in contraceptives.

Oddly, best pharmacy near me is Walmart. Not kidding. The pharmacists are so good, didn’t even blink when my trans kid got T, they will call to try to get the doctor to modify prescriptions to include or exclude generics for the best cost, they do immunizations (I get mine there not at the doctor, usually, much easier to schedule) & when Adderall was sold out everywhere they found it for my kid who needs it, when estrogen was sold out everywhere they found it for me. They can always quickly get my vials of injectable sumatriptan, other pharmacies can’t. The combo of ridiculously powerful market share, mostly not affluent customers, and very good pharmacists who have been the same people for 15 years now, we got lucky.

For me, it replaced car trips, I get much more incidental exercise with the e-bike because I actually prefer to take it instead of the car for most of my in-town trips, and, well, I hate riding a bike and was shocked by how much I love riding the electric bike. So before I would walk if something was close and I didn’t have to carry much, but take the car if going more than a mile or so, or carrying groceries. Absolutely would not bike, so uncomfortable. Now I use the e-bike for those errands I previously used the car for.

I live in such a flat city, almost never think about switching gears.

Which is kind of funny as I drive a manual car because I like feeling connected and shifting in the car, but the e-bike, I set it and forget it, use the throttle and pedal when going up a hill and gravity going down a hill. On the few occasions I encounter a hill.

Yes and I used to have a well at one house I lived in, and they didn’t charge me for water or sewer because of what you say here, they didn’t have a way to measure it since I wasn’t buying water.

In the 1990s, we used to live next to a couple, Julio & Georgina. They would fight all the time, screaming in Spanish. We never really talked to them. One month we couldn’t pay our water bill and the guy came and shut it off.

As the truck pulled away from the curb, Julio EXPLODES from his house, screaming cusses in Spanish with the biggest wrench I have ever seen. Turns my water back on, shakes the massive wrench at the retreating truck, still yelling at them, nods at me and stomps back into his house.

Yes, the city bundles water, sewer, and garbage pickup, recycling and bills monthly.

They send someone every month here. A guy comes down the street looking at all the meters (they are under metal plates in front yards) and putting info into a phone. I guess the city has an app. He has a metal pry bar with a long handle he uses to open them