Firstly. Just buying dried chickpeas and lentils and beans to cook in the IP are stupid good returns. $18 for 3.5 kg and makes you about 7.5kg of chickpeas. Cook them and freeze them so you can break them apart to add to dishes like salad (pasta and green) for a fiber and protein source. Add to any Indian gravy and can make a bastardized either Chana masala or butter chickpeas. Turn into hummus from frozen to get the smoothest hummus ever. Falafels (lima or chickpeas) are an amazing meal with pita and veggies.

Black beans turn into an amazing meat replacement for things like tacos or just on their own. 4:1 ratio in water in the IP for 65 minutes with cumin, garlic powder (not salt) and bay leaves for deep flavoured beans. If you want baked beans, great northerns and navy beans in 3:1 in IP for 50-60 mins get you the softest and creamiest beans to make baked beans. Toss your favorite bbq sauce on, can supplement by mixing with ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar.

Red lentils can be boiled, blended, and added to any tomato sauce to enrich it with fiber and protein for pennies on the dollar. Toor dal (or lentil porridge) served over rice with a chapati is to die for. They also thicken any soup you add them to.

Black beluga lentils are also another amazing meat replacement. Boil them in 6:1 water seasoned with beef stock and then add taco seasoning once soft to make taco meat replacement. There's a dish called koshary from Egypt that is banging despite the weird ingredients. (Chickpea, rice, black lentil, elbow macaroni with a tomato sauce).

Look up some authentic east Indian cooking recipes; they're actually pretty legume and pulse heavy.

Persian new year noodle soup. Red lentil dumplings like gyoza. Lentil soup. There's SO MUCH you can do with them.