An Elegant Sufficiency

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Diminishing returns

 

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Buy a bag of broad beans.

 

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Remove them from their snug little places, having admired and photographed this beautiful packaging first.

 

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Wonder how there can be so few when you had such a huge pile of beans.

 

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Look at the pile of empty pods and understand why.

 

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Take off the indigestible outer shell of each bean

 

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leaving about a tablespoonful for lunch.