With an almost one-year-old in the house, we’re finding ourselves outside and looking for interesting things to do and see to keep us occupied, and that’s not going to slow down now that it’s November!.

-It’s full of nutritious veggies and protein sources, but no picky eater ever seems to realize it.. -You can’t mess it up.. -We eat it (or a leftover version of something made out of it) at least once a week.. -One pot seems to last and last for ever and ever..Some weeks it seems like we live off of basic chili, just cause it’s easy and healthy and everyone loves it.

Somehow chili has gotten a reputation as kind of a junky comfort food even though, when you think of it, it’s pretty much all veggies, and you can hide all kinds of extra veggies in there too if you want!.Whenever I make up a big batch of this stuff, I always freeze the leftovers and we get at least 3 more meals out of it over the next few weeks.And then I make more!

So the other day when I was making up a new batch, I thought it was high time I shared this food revelation with you, just in case you never realized how easy chili can make your dinner-cookin’ life!.I’ve made all different versions, but this is the simple one I always come back to:.

-1 lb ish of ground beef or turkey (not a big deal if it’s still frozen, it’ll defrost in the crock pot).

-2 cans of any kind of beans.All you need is some kind of basic fleece fabric.

I just used an old scarf in happy colors that I thought would look cute on my swiffer, but if you went to the fabric store and picked up half a yard of whatever fleece, that would make you about a gazillion cloths.. Next the only real step to this “project” is to cut your pieces of fleece to the right size.You can use an actual swiffer cloth to measure or you can just kind of eyeball it by wrapping it around the swiffer.

You can see I’m not a perfectionist about it at all..The little grabby things on the swiffer are super forgiving.