Since I will be home most of the day today, I will be cooking up a large batch of quinoa and millet as well as chickpeas. I avoid buying beans in cans because of the BPA that these products usually contain along with the extra sodium that they have. Once they are all cooked, I divide them up and freeze them. When I need rice or beans, I just go to my freezer and grab what I need. Not only is this a more nutritional and safe route for my family, it is also waaaayyyy less expensive.