Crockpot Beef and Bean Chili
This crockpot beef and bean chili is a perfect recipe on those weeks when you are short on time to get dinner on the table.
What have I been eating?
- Skinny Meatball Sub! I used two slices of Aldi light bread (2), 1/4 cup of baby spinach, 1/3 cup jarred pizza sauce (1), 4 ounces of sirloin that I made into 12 mini meatballs – just seasoned with salt, pepper and crushed red pepper (4) and 1/2 tablespoon shredded Parmesan (1 point) and a sliced Fuji apple for dessert. 8 Smart Points for that lunch.
- Look at this cute individually packed mozzarella cheese I found at the Fresh Market. Six packets for $3.99 – a splurge, but I can’t help loving tiny food like that! 2 SP per package.
- Scrambled egg (2) and egg white (1) on top of baby spinach (0) points, 1/2 tablespoon Annie’s goddess dressing (1) and 3 ounces of sirloin steak on the side (3) topped with 1/2 tablespoon shredded Parmesan (1) – 8 SP breakfast
- 4 ounce ground sirloin burger (5) over sauteed cabbage and sauerkraut (0), with a tablespoon of BBQ sauce on top (1) and 1 tablespoon French fried onions (1) : 7 SP dinner
- Over the weekend I baked up a few bone in chicken breasts. Even though I am not eating the skin (best part tho!) always cook poultry with the skin on – it will be so tender that way. I baked them at 350 for 30 minutes, then let them cool before individually wrapping them. After I peeled the skin off and pulled the chicken off, I had 5 ounces of chicken (3), the cheese (2), cucs and carrots (0) and 2 ounces of tzatziki sauce (1 point) I buy my tzatziki sauce at my deli – they sell the gyros meat, but I only buy the containers, and for some reason they just put four in a bag and I never get charged for them! Super filling 6 SP lunch.
- More Aldi bread! Two slices (2) toasted and topped with baby spinach (0), egg whites (1), 1.5 ounces of shaved deli ham (1) and 1/2 ounce of cheddar cheese (2) with fruit. Another 6 SP breakfast that was super filling.
I’ve decided I need to utilize my crock pot more often on the nights I hit the gym after work. It’s so nice walking in the door at 7 p.m. knowing that dinner is done! Yesterday morning I put this chili in the crock pot – basically with what I had on hand and using my puree of veggies method for my buffalo chicken chili. When I got home from work, I measured it out, and I ended up with 8 1-cup servings at 5 WW points each. Nice!
I topped mine with 1/2 ounce reduced fat Cabot cheese and sliced jalapeno, with a serving of tortilla chips on the side for dipping – so the chili was 5 points and the chips and cheese was another 5 points, so 10 points altogether.
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Still killing it at the gym and walking. I do strength training 3 times a week, and am averaging about 15k steps a day. I noticed yesterday that I didn’t drink much water, so I need to see where the water app is on the WW app – I am sure it’s there, I just haven’t found it yet.
So I hope you are having a good week so far – still can’t believe we are in February already, but I love leaving the office and it’s light outside – that much closer to spring and day light savings! Make it a great day!
Hey – no teasing with news, not fair!!
I am so happy to notice how light it is staying in the afternoons now. It’s really noticeable!
Ha, I am such a tease!
Hannah and I were just talking about how light it is getting – we pulled into the drive way at 5:25 and it was still light out – love!
I can’t wait to hear your exciting news!
I am in love with my crock-pot, one of the best kitchen things I bought in the last years. I am going to make it a habit to use it on Mondays too. That’s the evening I do some house cleaning and I like it that I don’t have to cook. That way I’m done earlier with my chores. I recently made a chili in it too and it was so delicious!
Next week it will be chicken tika massala.
What? I never thought to do chicken tikka masala in the crockpot?! Totally going to try that.
So THANK YOU for the Dutch treats! When Jacob came home and saw them on the counter, he thought they were chocolate and of course was disappointed that it wasn’t. It is like a really good – like a dark rich licorice. We all loved the peppermint though! (and I’ll save the drops for me 😀 )
Happy to hear the package arrived!
That tikka masala is in the crockpot as I write this. I am still a little bit worried to leave the house with the crockpot on. I even checked the internet if there were accidents with a crockpot but I couldn’t find it 🙂
That chili looks fabulous!
Way to go!
Mini foods – gotta love it. Got to find those, too!
Tony used to hate tiny foods – I used to make silver dollar pancakes and it used to drive him nuts!
I’ll be on the edge of my seat waiting for the news and now I am smiling ear to ear for you 🙂 The chili looks so yummy. I’m glad our weather will be dropping out of the mid eighties to the fifties next week. (probably sounds tropical to you but I’m grateful anytime it drops below eighty) I just enjoy foods that people cook when it is cooler weather.
Thanks Kym – you’ll be happy for me for sure! 😀 We have actually not had a bad winter this year – although I may have jinxed myself and now we’ll get snow in March – which has happened. Hannah’s birthday is March 7 and some years it’s been so warm I’ve had water balloons and other times I’ve had to shovel snow so people could get in the house!
Beth, you big tease! Can’t wait to hear your news next week! I love your can-do attitude. It’s inspiring!
Ha, you’ll just have to wait – it will be worth it though 😀 Hope you are having a good weekend and you did okay through the blizzard – I am behind in my blog reading and need to catch up with you 😀
I love this format for showcasing your meals! so cute. and p.s. I can’t remember if I commented but I’ve been thinking of you and am SUPER proud of you for making it through dry January! xoxo
Well since I don’t blog everyday, I like to show people who may be doing WW that you can eat a really wide variety of food and nothing too fancy 😀 And thanks Ashley – I decided to continue the alcohol free streak indefinitely! 😀
I am so glad you are doing WW! I do it too and find that your meals fit nicely with the plan.
My Aldi doesn’t have the light bread so I’m probably going to have to go with the Sara Lee 45 calorie bread.
That must be kind of scary waking up with low blood sugar, but I’m glad your body wakes you up!
I have an Android that I use the WW app on, and I believe you have an Iphone but they have removed the tracker for water, oil, fruits and veggies and multivitamin. They left with the introduction of the Beyond the Scale program so you have to keep up with them on your own. No shame for not filling in those markers if you don’t get them in, but they are still healthy habits.
Thanks for letting me know about the water app – I kept looking and I was like “it has to be here somewhere!” I must remember that they had the two teaspoons of oil requirement and one woman at one of my meetings thought she had to eat two teaspoons of oil by itself! Our leader was like “use it to stirfry!”
I am pretty sure I can find a water app being the app whore that I am 😀