Here's a little nutrition rule to keep in mind:
When large food manufacturers prepare your food, they're going to replace a lot of healthy ingredients with really cheap crap and charge you more for the convenience.
Take chili for example. It's inexpensive, it's fast, it's simple, and it can be made with stuff that supports your fat loss goals and fuels muscle gains. Yet most people buy it in a can. What's wrong with that?
Canned chili makers often add sugar, flour, soy, MSG, inflammation-causing oils, hydrolyzed corn, and corn syrup. Oh, and the meat is usually of the mechanically separated variety. You know, grisly scraps they used to reserve for pet food. So just make it yourself.
Most chili recipes start with the same base: meat, tomato sauce or canned tomatoes, beans, and chili powder. You can have a lot of tasty fun with it after that. My favorite variation is called trashcan chili, and it's basically a leftover user-upper. This isn't a recipe really, more like a template. You really can't mess this up.
This is "volumized" chili, meaning we're going to pack it full of nutritious stuff that really fills you up.
Depending on how many veggies you add, you'll get 5-6 meals out of this.
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