Not your every day bean salad

Drain and rinse all canned ingredients reserving 2 tablespoons of black olive juice to pour over the dry onion flakes and dried chopped garlic to soften. Slice the olives and celery. Slice the water chestnuts, chop pecans, chop and seed cukes, dice tomatoes. Sprinkle sweetner over ingredients. Add small amounts of olive oil and white vinegar until you have a mixture to suit your taste. This salad flavor gets tastier if it sits a while before serving for the flavors to blend. I prefer each diner to add their own tomatoes and cukes so they don't get soggy. ENJOY!!!