If asparagus isn't available, green beans or sugar snap peas work well.

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The magic beans weren't worth anything.

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Try as we might we couldn't get anyone to spill the beans about the resolution of the touchscreen, but it looks to be 16:9, and we'd guess it's at least 720p.

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He said humans generally have plenty of carnitine in their diet, which also is found in small amounts in nuts, beans, vegetables and fruit, and don't need to take it in supplement form.

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The beans will benefit from overnight soaking, but please don't throw away the darkened water in the morning.

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You take beans, grind them and use water to extract something that hopefully won't taste like Valvoline.

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In fact, the first few days I sort of felt cheated, or maybe even a little bit hungry, because I wasn't able to eat meat, but I found that this is mostly psychological, that as long as you have protein in some form, whether it's beans or tofu, and you get used to it, it's really - you don't feel like you're missing much at all.

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