For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 29, 2024

A different kind of bean is still a bean.

I’m quite the opposite. A dish would have to look mighty bad to turn me away.

This won’t last much longer…..

Beans, beans, good for the heart…….the more you eat, the more you……….

Beans beans the musical fruit the more you eat…the faster you can clear a room

Was that Blazing Saddles that had a scene with cowboys sitting around eating beans and ……….?

I really don’t like Elly at this point. If she wanted to have vegetarian meals, say twice a week, fine. But no, she had to make the family go vegetarian without their input or agreement. Somehow I don’t think she would have done this had Michael still been home.

I’ve always hated the smug expressions on some of these characters’ faces sometimes.

Thank you, John, for cutting her down to size. Now, take the kids out for pizza.

Oh, BTW, you’d better sleep in a separate room tonight, John—the master bedroom will stink to high heaven!!

The proper term for a vegetarian dish is compost.

Best bean scene in a movie, Blazing Saddles, outlaws eating beans around the campfire.

My MIL tried this with religion. Then her mother got sick and she backslid.

Maybe John would like to fix his own supper?

If I recall, a DIFFERENT KIND OF BEAN, is what Jack and the Beanstalk traded for his family cow as payment.

It makes me wonder where this story line is going to turn out tomorrow?

Will the Patterson’s wake up tomorrow to find a giant beanstalk outside their house stretching up into the clouds?

Back in college, one guy bet me that I couldn’t be a vegetarian for three months. It was hard, but I did it.

We’ve been vegetarians for about thirty years. There are a lot more things to cook than just beans.

1) If it looks nice — something which is very much a matter of opinion, — fair enough. But I don’t eat paintings. I eat for two reasons… nourishment and taste. And even what is experienced as taste varies from person to person.

2) Metabolisms can also vary. E.g., I like various kinds of beans (and to me they don’t all taste the same), but when I eat them, I don’t experience “after” effects.

Meanwhile, I have a brother who has been a healthy vegetarian for decades, but when I tried the same diet, my body rebelled after only a couple of months. It needs at least a little bit of meat.

Bean there, done that, moving along.

What ! Boiled Cabbage again ! Sigh ! Where’s the Vinegar ?

Making it tasty would help more.

Take the hint!

At least put some tofu in there for a different protein!

No matter how you cut it, it’s still beans!

My wife and I have vegetarian meals about three times a week. Beans every other week. We grew up eating them.

Where’s the Beef?

There are other vegetables besides beans you know.

If that is all she makes, is it appropriate to call Elly a beanatarian?

But these are special, creative beans.

John should better appreciate what his wife does for the family. Healthy meals are why Elly doesn’t look like Lizzo.

I wouldn’t mind a nice dish of home made Boston baked beans. Hmmm….maybe I should just pick up the ingredients and make my own. I can always freeze the leftovers.

So different and still so much the same.

you can color code it all you want, beans is still beans… I think I got that phrase right. :\

Vegetarian food is not too bad if you add some meat and cheese.

Great minds (Elizabeth and John) think alike ! ! ! ! All the while, Elle is thinking—why do I bother ! ! !

She could have made Zucchini, Russel Sprouts, Rutabagas, etc…

Having diverticulosis, I now have to atone for repast sins of not eating fruit and vegetables. ;-p

Most bean dishes can be improved by adding bacon.

The most uninteresting man in the world says “I’m no Vegetarian but when I am, I only eat my Chile Sin Carne.” ;-p

As an alternative, you could make GOOD food.

She should do some quinoa for a change. It’s whole different experience!

3rd panel: thats beans? weird shapes , looks more like the top of a garbage pail.

In Louisiana, we have a dish called red beans and rice. It is red kidney beans flavored with ground beef and/or sausage served over rice. As a student living off $200 a month( in the late 70s) I ate a LOT of red beans and rice. To this day I cringe whenever the dish is offered.

Loveliness is in the eye of the bean-holder.

Ellie, haven’t you learned already, even a used car salesman can’t sell vegetarian dishes to an unsuspecting public, much less to your own family?

Elly! This is something YOU want to do! Don’t force the rest of your family into something they don’t want to do. And seriously, there’s only so much you can do with beans! Yuck!

If you can’t say something rice….

Spice it up…bean burritos…

I think the family is ready for some chicken or something.

A bean is a bean, Ellie.

You just want them to be as loaded with foul gas as you are, don’t you Cru-Elly?

Unfortunately, most beans are just another bean.

I have found that if you add some coconut oil to a vgetarian bean dish, it makes it so much easier to scrape it off your plate and into the trash.

They have to eat rice with that to get all the right amino acids to make proteins

She already tried that one, when Elizabeth was a preschooler. This was in the B.A. era (Before April)

Elizabeth: Nizzie want cookie!

Elly: That is not good for you. Here, watch this.Elly chops up banana

See, I take banana slices and put a few rainbow sprinkles on them. Lizzie like pretty flower? Elizabeth thinks it looks neat Lizzie eat pretty flower!

Elizabeth: NIZZIE WANT COOKIE!!

They are however good for your heart,

Vegetarian cooking does NOT have to be difficult nor boring, nor just beans. But it wouldn’t be funny if everyone just automatically loved her meals.

Cincinnati,Ohio—2 way chili,3 way chili,4 way chili,and 5 way chili.

Plus chili dogs.

once again I say, is it any wonder he divorced her?

The Pattersons are Has-Beans; soon they will be Had-Beans

If they are doing vegetarian rather than vegan, she could make cheese omelets for dinner.

We’ve been vegetarian since 1972. It’s a lot more than just beans.

Hope you don’t run out of air freshener

No single plant that humans eat is a source of complete protein. But, beans and rice together provide complete protein. That’s why rice and beans are so common in vegetarian meals.

There’s more to vegetarian cooking than just beans.

Air freshener sales are up.

No comments on lectins in beans?

Give him seitan or tofu - lol - he might be begging for beans.

Portobello mushrooms are supposed to fool people into t hinking they’re steak