I have many recipes for
Crock Pot Chili, most with red beans and ground beef. In my attempt to try and prepare healthy meals for my family but still hang on to the
cheap meals budget I tried this chili recipe with ground turkey and it was delicious. My family honestly thought this was better that any chili I had prepared before.
I found that purchasing ground turkey could be cheaper that ground beef but you have to watch your local grocery store ads to get the cheaper price.
My local Kroger (Smith’s) grocery store ran a great special on ground turkey about a month ago and I was able to stock up for a fraction of the price I would normally pay.
Beside ground turkey you can also purchase frozen turkey patties. These are a great last minute dinner ideas you can pull from the freezer and throw on the George Foreman Grill. Frozen turkey patties are also cheaper than frozen ground beef patties and my kids love to eat them.
Crock Pot Chili With Turkey and Beans
Cook Time: 7 hours HIGH – Serves 4
Crock Pot Chili
Ingredients:
- 2 cans (14oz) whole peeled tomatoes, drained
- 2 cans (14oz) red kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (14oz) black beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 can (12 oz) tomato sauce
- 1 lb cooked ground turkey
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 cup chopped carrot
- 3 tbsp chili powder
- 4 tsp ground cumin
- 2 tsp ground red pepper
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 cup Amaretto (optional)
Directions:
- Combine all ingredients in the crock-pot, cover and cook on HIGH for 7 hours
- Serve with some homemade corn muffins and a side salad to complete your family meal.
How’s that for an easy cheap meal!!
Here are so more great Chili Recipes you might like to try:
White Chicken Chili In The Crock Pot
Simple Ground Beef Chili Crock Pot Recipe
And my Hub Page : Using Crockpots To Make Chili
To all the
Cheap Meals readers and seekers I wanted to let you in a new resource available to you. I just finished a new section of Cheap Family Meals that is dedicated to the Veggie Diet. It’s called
Veggie Meals Made Easy (see it’s permanent home in the tabs above).
Now it’s not just about being Vegetarian (which I’m not, my son is) but about preparing healthy meatless meals for those that don’t like or cannot have meat. There are great articles on a child’s veggie diet as well as veggie recipes and meatless meal ideas.
The site serves three main purposes:
- Healthy Meals With Veggie Foods – Easy ideas on how to incorporating more veggies into family meals to achieve that healthier lifestyle we all strive for but find difficult to obtain.
- Meatless Recipes – For those that love meat but cannot eat it and those that desire a veggie diet but do not consider themselves vegetarians.
- Vegetarian Resource – A great source for additional recipes and meal ideas that will support the vegetarian way of life and those considering the vegetarian option.
Veggie Meals Made Easy
I hope you all will take a look and leave a comment to let me know what you think. And as always please leave suggestions or your tips and tricks as this mommy is always looking for new ways to feed my veggie lovin’ son!
Here’s a little recap on how our veggie lifestyle started:
I discovered it was more than just a love for veggies during our annual pumpkin carving for Halloween. As the family finished carving the pumpkins, there sat my 2 year old eating the pulp we had scooped out from inside the pumpkin. Once he sifted through the seeds and realized he had eaten what he could, he then starting bringing the carved pumpkins to me one by one to cut up so that he could continue eating his new discovery.
For the complete story click here: Veggie Meals Made Easy: How This Veggie Lifestyle Began
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