Love baby carrots. I made 15 bean soup in January. Still have some in the freezer. Those bags of beans really do make too many servings for just two people for whom one cup of soup is plenty. Miser I hear your girlfriend on the soup. Nothing else like homemade soup, but it makes so much! Down in Austin there was a store of bulk foods that had the most delicious lentil soup mix, I loved it cause I could make one serving at a time.