Some people do used canned green beans (doesn't taste as good but is cheaper). I have had it this way and only like it when the green beans are fresh....

I was exposed to cooking from scratch and classic novels at a very young age but I am a real nerd (a technologically challenged one verses my H's classic talented computer programming nerdinesss). I didn't know what a troll, ghost, catfish, or any of the acronyms besides lol meant until we started conversing. And I love your sense of humor and hope I have learned to see some of the same humor in things as you do. I also love what all of my family, friends and people at work have taught me through the years.