dried beans

Ever use dried beans? Did you notice the line on the bag that says something like, "this is a natural product and may contain..."?

I hope you spread the beans on a tray and pick through them. I do. Every week I cook a pound of lentils and I place most of the foreign matter that I find in a little metal cup on the back of my stove. It's full of mostly grass seeds, flower buds, odd legumes, and only an occasional stone, weevil, or grasshopper head.