I often receive cans of no salt green beans in our monthly Community box. No need to look for frozen.
I didn't realize how much the no salt matters until I tried making this with regular green beans. It was so salty I had to toss it.
No, I can't chew bacon any more (sob), but buy a package of Real Bacon Bits to keep on hand for dishes like this so I at least get my bacon flavor in a chewable form.
The dish came out great. No bitterness at all from the BS. The casserole was almost overflowing, so I'll have to freeze some so it doesn't go bad before I can eat it all.
I'm trying to eat more vegetables lately. This will do for several days.
Next time, tho, I'll just make two separate dishes. I really prefer the casserole to be something I can eat up without having to freeze part of it, even though when I just made it with the green beans, it froze and reheated very well. The microwave just crisped up the onion ring topping nicelly.