Anyone here try them? I had a pleasant surprise last week. Bought two
packs of olives imported from France from Winco. I opened and ate the mixed
olives and in there were three beans! I didn't know what they were but they
were yummy.

Long story short, I finally took the package from the trash to look. They
were Lupini beans! I bought more of the olives today and one package is
loaded with the beans.

Meanwhile I have been on a quest to buy just the beans. From what I have
read online it is a long, laborious process to get them to be edible. They
come from the Lupine plant. But you can also get them in a jar like pickles
or olives. We looked and looked and finally Angela found them today at
Central Market. I bought two jars and did a little dance in the aisle.

I think these will make a great snack and they are very salty so probably
not something you'd eat a lot of at once. I have read that you can rinse
them if you think they are too salty. You're supposed to eat them out of
the tough shell then spit the shell out. I did not know this and ate the
whole thing. But apparently you can eat the whole thing too.

On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 23:52:11 -0700, Julie Bove wrote:

> Anyone here try them? I had a pleasant surprise last week. Bought two
> packs of olives imported from France from Winco. I opened and ate the mixed
> olives and in there were three beans! I didn't know what they were but they
> were yummy.
>
> Long story short, I finally took the package from the trash to look. They
> were Lupini beans! I bought more of the olives today and one package is
> loaded with the beans.
>
> Meanwhile I have been on a quest to buy just the beans. From what I have
> read online it is a long, laborious process to get them to be edible. They
> come from the Lupine plant. But you can also get them in a jar like pickles
> or olives. We looked and looked and finally Angela found them today at
> Central Market. I bought two jars and did a little dance in the aisle.
>
> I think these will make a great snack and they are very salty so probably
> not something you'd eat a lot of at once. I have read that you can rinse
> them if you think they are too salty. You're supposed to eat them out of
> the tough shell then spit the shell out. I did not know this and ate the
> whole thing. But apparently you can eat the whole thing too.

Thanks for posting this, I had never heard of them.
I found these also:

http://www.recipetips.com/recipe-car...pini-beans.asp
http://lupini.us/

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