Tweaking Can Improve Albertson’S Four-Bean Dish

Sometimes you just have to have something other than potato salad at a picnic.

So we decided to try out a traditional, four-bean salad on the members of The Spokesman-Review’s Reader Food Panel.

In the end, our tasters would have preferred the potato salad.

But the four-bean dish is the ultimate in easy-to-fix salads - especially if you buy it by the pound at the grocery store like we did.

Most of our tasters had one complaint or another about Albertson’s Take-Out Deli FourBean Salad, ranging from too much vinegar to too much pepper to “the beans taste waxy.”

If you decide to buy a bucket of this salad, think about tasting and tweaking the spices in it at home before serving.

Albertson’s Take-Out Deli Four-Bean Salad

Price: $1.99/lb.

Nutrition information per serving: 197 calories per cup, (5 percent fat calories), and 678 milligrams sodium.

Taste: **

Value: ***

Comments: “The bean flavors do not mesh well, and the greasy dressing doesn’t help.” - Mike Connelly

“The beans were good. A little too much dressing for me.” - Jenny Whittaker

“A nice, tangy, crisp bean salad. It’s so sweet, you can’t eat much. Good for what it’s supposed to be.” - Tina Johnson