This would probably be great - but good grief! - you would be broke by the time you purchased all of the beans.

This is a great and affordable way to prepare for winter soup. The beans run 99 cents to This is a great and afforable way to prepare for winter soup. The beans run 99 cents to $1.99 a bag - you get 12-14
packets of "bean mix". If you do bean soup once a week - that's 3 months! Try subsituting, shrimp or chicken for the ham hock - you'll need to adjust the spicing...but Whoo whee...good southern food. Nomnomnom..99 a bag - you get 12-14 packets of "bean mix". If you do bean soup once a week - that's 3 months! Try substituting, shrimp or chicken for the ham hock - you'll need to adjust the spicing...but Whoo whee...good southern food. Nomnomnom.

I buy packets of 16 bean soup, makes it easier, and add 2 chopped carrots and 2 ribs chopped celery, fresh herbs from my garden, a can ro-tel with green chilis and some Worcestershire sauce. We love it.

A dear friend gave me a version of this recipe some three decades ago. It is versatile and delicious. Don't bother going out and buying all of those beans. Just keep a big jar in the pantry and at the end of the bag of any beans you use, dump them in (or go to the bulk section of your market and get only what you need.) My recipe calls for ham, chicken thighs and smoked sausage. Sometime I use all three, sometimes any two and sometimes just one depending on what I have handy. Make it cajun by adding appropriate spice and andoulie sausage,