Easy, Favorite Chili Recipe

It's chili season! Quite possibly my favorite thing to eat. To me chili is the ultimate, go to fall meal.

I wanted to share my recipe with all of you. It's so easy. Below I have an instructional video, as well as a list of ingredients and directions. If you give this recipe a try or have your own recipe you would love to share. Leave me a comment. I hope you enjoy this recipe!!

Ingredients:

2 lbs Ground beef
1 lb Ground sausage (plus bacon optional)
14 oz. Polska Kielbasa link
31 oz. Canned Chili beans
29 oz. Diced Tomatoes
8 oz. Tomato sauce
1 Onion

Directions:

1. Brown the ground beef and ground sausage in a skillet.
2. Slice the Polska Kielbasa and add to the slow cooker.
3. Dice the onion and add to slow cooker.
4. Add the canned chili beans, diced tomatoes, tomato sauce and browned meat to slow cooker.
5. Cook on low for 8-10 hours

Books We Love For Our Toddler

Most of you know, I am homeschooling our three year old daughter.  It has been such a rewarding experience and we love it!  I wanted to share with you the books we've been reading.  We get a new book every week, and my little one loves our weekly trips to Barnes and Noble.  I hope this helps anyone that would like to find some great books for their children!  I will add a link to all of the books, if anyone is interested.  Here's what we've read so far: (P.S. this is not every book we have, only what we've bought during her schooling. Let me know if you're interested in our entire reading collection.)

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Fall Bucket List

Autumn is just around the corner, and here are some activity ideas for you.  We hope to do them all this year!  Make sure you subscribe to my YouTube channel if you would like to join us on our fall adventures.  Let me know if there's anything you like to do for fall that I didn't include in this list.  Just put those activities in the comments. I would love to hear them!

Fall Family Bucket List

1. Apple picking	2. Pumpkin patch	3. Decorating pumpkins
4. Have chili	5. Drink hot apple cider	6. Bake pumpkin bread
7. Go for a hayride	8. Bake a pie	9. Enjoy fall candles
10. Buy Halloween candy	11. Jump in leaf piles	12. Prepare wardrobe for fall
13. Donate unwanted spring clothes	14. Sit by the fireplace and drink hot chocolate	15. Put fall décor around the front door
16. Go trick or treating	17. Watch a Halloween movie	18. Backyard camping
19. Family photos	20. Nature walk	21. Visit the renaissance festival
22. Picnic in the park	23. Walk through a maze.	24. Decorate the mantle for fall
25.  Thanksgiving dinner	26. Make caramel apples	27. Bake fall cookies

DELICIOUS Sausage and Rice

This is one of my husband's FAVORITES!!!  He will literally eat a whole casserole dish to himself!

Ingredients:

• 4 cups of rice
• 2 onions
• 3 bell peppers
• 3 links of smoked sausage
• 4 beef bullion cubes
• 6 Tbsp. of Worcestershire sauce
• 8 cups of water

Random Recipes | Picadillo Shepherd's Pie

Another random recipe from my kitchen.  I actually discovered this recipe on Pinterest, so thank you to where ever this came from.  My family LOVES it.  My daughter and I HATE green olives! But, somehow it works and we both clean our plates every time!

Bottom line, this is a must try!  Please comment and let me know if you tried it, and if you liked it.