Child Labor is Fantastic

Do you have kids in your house who are bored? Are they perhaps a little whiny? Here is the solution for you!

Take them to the garden to help you pull out the bean plants. Then have them pull the dried pods off each plant and put them in a collection pot. Next set them up in the kitchen to open each pod and capture all the delicious black beans.

Doesn't Big Bro look happy?

Now Lil Sis wants to help too? No problem! Move the bean collecting pot to the floor to ensure that no one will fall off their chair while reaching for new pods to open. Now everyone can be part of the fun!

In no time all your beans will be neatly sorted into containers. Twenty-five feet of bean plants turned into 8 cups of delicious black beans for soup and chili!

Disclaimer: the kids actually only helped for maybe five minutes. They were responsible for producing 1/8 cup of beans...maybe.