We think alike Susan! There are so many different ways of eating and food sensitivities these days. I love to have something for that person so they still feel welcome in my home. Thanks for a great link party!

Ha! I like the way you think. Cranberry beans are a lot like a pinto, but bigger, and a little different flavor. I use them all. the. time. My friends dad is a bean farmer, so I buy all my beans from them and it is one of the varieties they offer. It’s a reddish and white color. Kind of hard to describe, but if you’ve seen a pinto dried bean, it has some variation of color. The cranberry bean is like that, but the colors are read and white. They’re really pretty, but the colors all blend after you cook them. I don’t mind kidney beans, but I prefer the cranberry, so I mostly use it for chili or in a blend of some sort.