I know a lot of people are saying just too steam the green beans for the most nutrients and serve them aldente or what ever I say bull they taste like water that way cook them long and slow until they are almost wrinkled OMG talk about flavor. Gray Cat and I use them from Allen cannery and they sell shelly beans also if you have never tried them. We used too can are own but since Mom Died we dont do that. So I just get mine from a can. i have a farmer friend that used too sneak over too Moms and take a few bushels of them and put them on her front porch and sometimes he would drop off a dozen or so cantaloups and water melons. He really took good care of my parents. He would call them and tell them the field corn was dry enough so they could go pick it and take it too the mill and have corn meal made. It does not even compare too store bought at all. They used too always have 50 or more pounds of cornmeal in the freezer. I sure miss those days.