Fast and Easy Pickled Green Beans

Lately the amount of food that I end up throwing out has been annoying me. I get tired of foods really quickly, so I don't generally like to have the same vegetable multiple times in one week. Since a lot of vegetables are sold in bunches or packages, I end up with way more than I need. I recently got a huge bag of green beans at the farmer's market and I knew that I would never be able to eat them all before they went bad so I turned half of them into pickles.[....]