vegan chili

 

dinner tonight - vegan chili.. i make these giant cauldrons of food and eat off it for 3-4 days.. freezing some up for when i have a lazy day or want options.. chili seems to be my favourite go-to dish.. i have a very restricted diet & i'll explain that in a different post, but my point is that chili has so much of everything i need & like.. it's packed with goodness.. 

i never follow recipes, just make them up on the fly with whatever i have handy.. this batch has the usual suspects of different beans, onions, tomatoes & peppers.. the variables in this one are lentils, barley, spinach, sweet potato & corn.. also, i love using a can of refried to thicken up the sauce.. the surprise ingredient was some mashed carrots i had left over in the fridge.. 

for spices, i sometimes use a low sodium starter packet & then go crazy from my spice box.. [onion, garlic, smoked paprika, cayenne, cumin, curry].. i added nutritional yeast on top before eating, not for flavour, but for the health benefits of it.. 

this chili has no meat, no dairy, no sugar, low salt, no fat/oils.. even the 'not at all vegan'  fella, loves it..  bon appetit!