These Dishes Are Delicious

I ran into an old neighbor of mine last week.  She asked me how things going, getting by?  I said, yeah,  getting by.  We discussed how hard things are now.  Then she talked about making chilli for her family, particularly her son who loves it, and that it's an inexpensive meal. One ingredient she mentioned was mustard which I've never used for chilli.  Adding mustard sounded very interesting and tasty, so I made some last week. My family and I enjoyed it, except my son doesn't like kidney beans, or beans for that matter, so I removed his beans from his chilli. I used to make chilli regularly years ago, but haven't since. Now that times call for budgeting wisely in every area, I'll be making it more often.

 

 Chilli and tomato soup (stew)

I'm not fond of canned soups unless more food is added to it.  I grew up on  soups, the base being canned soups, with plenty of fresh vegetables, dumplings and meat added to it.  North American's  call this stew.  A couple of weeks ago, not knowing what to make, I took out a can of tomato soup from the cupboard.  I decided to add lots of garlic, onion and carrots cut thin to it, plus gravy from pieces of turkey cooked the night before (if you can find it, turkey legs and thighs sold alone are inexpensive).   Despite carrots being in the dish (carrots are my least favorite vegetable), it was delicious! Today, I replaced the turkey gravy with liquid from chicken liver (yes...I eat chicken livers, it contains high amounts of the mineral iron, and it's also inexpensive).  I added two more vegetables, sliced cabbage and cubed eggplant (which I bought on sale).  And it's still good!

Inexpensive and healthy.  Can't go wrong there...