Beans of Knowledge
by Kathryn Primm DVM on 08/12/11
Last week I was shopping for the ingredients of a new recipe, Tomato Succotash. (really awesome btw, I can get you the recipe). It called for Edamame, which is a fancy name for soybeans. The recipe required that the beans be shelled, but when I was looking I noticed that the unshelled Edamame was $0.20 cheaper for a bigger bag, so I opted to shell them myself.
The next day, I went home for lunch to start the prep for the recipe to be served for dinner. I work late so planning ahead is very helpful. I started by shelling the beans. That whole bag barely had enough useable beans to do the recipe! I had paid for the weight of hulls AND I had to waste my lunch hour shelling them. It made me think-Veterinary medicine is like that. Both beans seemed to be the same product. The hulled ones seemed to be a luxury that I could manage myself. But when I really got to the bottom of it I realized, you do get what you pay for and usually there is a sacrifice for a lower cost. Some vet clinics are cheaper than mine. They advertise cheap prices and promote discounted services. Sometimes the minimum will do just fine. But sometimes, you get home and realize that in the end you paid a little less to get a LOT less.
