Chili for dinner

Homemade chili can be nutritious and quick. You can use lean ground beef, ground turkey or ground buffalo as the meat. The easiest chili recipe is to use Bush Chili Magic - a canned product that is basically pinto beans in a chili sauce base. However, you can reproduce the same thing with canned beans and chili powder.

CRON Chili
1/2 an onion, chopped fine
two cloves of garlic, crushed
1/2 a green bell pepper, chopped fine
1/2 tsp of olive oil
1 lb of extra lean ground beef, ground turkey, or ground buffalo
1 can of diced tomatoes (soup can size)
1 can of Bush Chilimagic
(OR 1 can of pinto beans and 2-3 tablespoons of chili powder, 1/2 tsp cumin, salt to taste)

Saute onion, garlic and bell pepper until soft in olive oil. Add meat and cook until no longer pink - but don't brown. Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 15 minutes or more, until chili ingredients "blend and meld".

150g of this chili is only 210 calories and provides 25% of the RDA of B vitamins, 23% of minerals, and 11% of antioxidants.

A balanced 400 calories dinner using this chili would be:
150g of chili (5 1/2 ounces)
green salad with avocado, carrots and tomatoes (50g of romaine, 2 oz of avocados, 2 oz of tomatoes, and 1 ounce of carrots)
bowl of fresh blueberries and peaches (2 oz of blueberries and 4 oz of peaches)

This is relatively low in calcium but high in A,C, B-12, folate, and zinc.

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