Yes, but I think that it has to be homemade, from dry beans. Here is what I do: Soak a 1 lb bag of garbanzo beans in a big bowl of water overnight. Rinse, cover with water, simmer for 2 hours or until really soft, place one cup of beans into the food processor, add a couple of cloves of garlic, tahini, lemon juice, pepper, Mortons, curry powder, or whatever you like, blend for several minutes. This is one protein serving. I like to eat it with baked pita chips, celery sticks, carrot sticks, ect. I froze the rest of mine in one cup servings. It made five one cup bags. Pretty cheap protein, $1.59=6 servings.
Thanks for the tip Katie !!! I will have to try this
chickpeas=garbanzo beans . . . .hence, the confusion.
I decided to do a little sleauthing and looked up the nutritional information on soy products and beans, etc. I don't think it's a pseudoscience, Mary (at least not this time, the supplements are another story). The calorie thing I was looking at broke down the components of foods into protein, fat, carb, etc on a pie chart. With the beans-they were mostly made up of carbs, while the soy products were mostly protein and fat. The beans had about 1/2 the grams of protein as a serving of soy protein. So I think that's why they are supposed to be counted as a starch. If you were a vegetarian though-maybe they give you more leeway, I don't know. Anyway, just FYI . . . . .
Okay, I called my center and asked. First they said no, then they looked them up and said yes, then they said that they would have to call the nutritionist and call me back. So, who the heck knows!!
I'm on the gold plan and my booklet says 1/3 cup of hummus is one starch and it still has beans (bagged any type, 1 cup cooked) as a vegetarian protein.
