Everyone talks about beans and lentals*YUCK* but no-one talks about split peas. You don't have to have a ham bone to make soup, if you need to you can use one of those approxamately 1lb+ canned hams. I love split pea soup but can't stand lentals. My order of small mylar bags and oxagen absorbers just came in so I'll be bagging up my beans and split peas. I still have to by salteens and crackers for the soup.