Beans v. Nuts: Combine or resign?

[superfly.d]

Should I combine or resign to my urge to put beans in my salad or mix them with nuts or mix them with grains? I am a neophyte to the raw alkaline focused combination method and I have run into conflicting information.


I want to put beans in my salad because this chart encourages it:

http://www.alderbrooke.com/images/chart.jpg

but I am finding on this chart it is discouraged:

http://www.thewolfeclinic.com/pdf/foodcombining.pdf


The first lists beans as carbohydrates and claims that carbohydrates mix well with vegetables. Mmmm, bean salad, I think. But the second chart breaks food into proteins and starches, doing away with the carbohydrate category all together. I'm tempted to go with the first chart because the second seems to define foods in unusual, inconsistent ways. It says beans are both proteins and starches--which very may well be--but that leaves me wondering about the other chart. Honestly, I'm in a world of confusion, maybe I'm not reading the charts carefully enough.

Can any kind soul help me? :confused:

[spicyfull]

I eat Nuts in My Salad, just because I like to and I think it Taste Good. I don't Food Combine.

[sport]

Beans are very hard for the body to digest because it can not decide if it is a protein or carb.
I think that nuts are better.

[PammieTaj]

Most people have problems digesting beans because they are both a carb and a protein and of the particular type of sugar in them. I'd say listen to your body. How do you feel after you eat a salad with beans on it? How do you feel if you forgo beans and just eat nuts?

I'd say try beans one each week for a week and see how it goes.

blessings and peace, Pammie