Ok chapos some tips for making beans taste better:

• beans can accept a lot of oil. Sometimes when you're making beans and you've seasoned then and added salt they will seem like they still need salt. 95% of the time they actually need oil. I've never sat down with a bowl of beans and thought I added too much oil. Oil is good for you despite what the cereal lobby might have convinced you, and if you're vegan chances are good you have a pretty low-fat diet. Throw some more olive oil in there.

• adding red wine fills out the flavour profile.

• adding leftover coffee from the morning with some molasses can be a great addition for any bean dish, and is cheap.

• you save so much money when you start soaking dry beans instead of canned, Plus they're lighter to carry home from the store.

• you don't have to have fancy recipes. One onion for every two tomatoes, some garlic, some spices and oil and you're good. Serve that over rice and feel good about yourself joining the masses of proletariat across the world breaking bread over beans and rice that night.