beans are already one of the most beloved ingredients in our community, so what better way to kick off our very first ingredient-of-the-month challenge?

whether you're making a cozy chili, a colorful bean salad, homemade hummus, bean burgers, or something completely unique, we'd love to see it!

to join the challenge:
🫘 make a vegetarian dish featuring beans.
📸 share a photo (or recipe!) with the community.
🏷️ tag your post with the custom flair: beanie baby.

psst... you can start early! no need to wait until August, and the beanie baby flair isn’t going anywhere after the challenge.

It could be something that made your journey easier than expected or maybe something that made it more challenging than you thought it would be!

For me, I wish I knew that the meat cravings would subside relatively quickly. For some reason, I believed that a year in, I'd still be craving chicken all the time. But once I started getting those nutrients from other sources, I stopped craving them. Sometimes I crave nuggets or a burger, but nowadays, the veggie versions fulfill that craving just as well.

For something that's made it harder, I wish I knew how many random products contained meat-based rennet, stock, or gelatin. A lot of my early oopsies were due to eating foods that I didn't realize contained meat products.