My boyfriend told me 3 weeks ago that he has decided to convert to a “beanatarian” diet. He told me he will from now only only eat different types of beans. I thought he was joking at first but I have literally seen him eat nothing but beans and multivitamins every day for 3 weeks.

He insists that “Almost all nutrients can be derived from beans”, and he takes 2 multivitamins a day “just in case”.

I can’t believe he thinks this is healthy. We have two cabinets that have been completely overtaken by different types of canned beans. For breakfast, lunch, and dinner he eats beans. Sometimes he just eats them without heating, sometimes he fries them in a pan, sometimes he boils them, sometimes he bakes them, sometimes he tries to make refried beans. He will add spices and sometimes a hot sauce but otherwise he has eaten no other food.

I went with him to a restaurant last night. He saw they had a vegetarian chili option that included pinto beans. He asked the waiter to just give him a bowl of those beans, “cooked to the chef’s preferred bean style.” The waiter was so confused, and I was so mortified. The waiter had to go back into the kitchen to ask if it was okay and they worked something out because they made him a bowl of beans.

I had a serious sit-down with him yesterday and said I was concerned for his health. He told me that beans have all kinds of protein and have all other sorts of nutrients, and that just in case his multivitamins “would pick up the slack.” I told him if he wanted to be a vegetarian or a vegan I would be totally on board, I am even mostly vegetarian already so I’d be willing to pursue that with him, but he insists he must only be a beanatarian.

I told him I was worried and annoyed by his bean based behavior and he told me “You’re just not proud of my beanatarian lifestyle”….and I was like, yeah, no, I’m not. It’s fucking weird and not healthy.

He told me that he was planning on writing a book about his beanatarian lifestyle that would be half “bean philosophy” and “bean facts” and the second half would be “bean recipes.”

I became exasperated and told him he needed to stop this nonsense but he said if I can’t accept his beanatarianism then he couldn’t accept me and we would have to break up.

My relationship might end because of this and honestly I do see him differently because I never realized in our 2 years of dating that he could be this irrational and stubborn. But I am also worried about him and wondering if I should have a bean intervention with his friends, I am not the only one disturbed by his diet.

Should I end things, and should I try to arrange an intervention regardless?

TL;DR – My boyfriend claims he is now a beanatarian and will only eat beans, I think this is unhealthy and he insists he will never eat anything other than beans for the rest of his life.