Slow Cooker Beef Chili

Slow Cooker Beef Chili

An easy slow cooker chili recipe, with super simple ingredients! The simple ingredients give this chili that super traditional taste! No bells or whistles here! Just a few ingredients, which allows the flavors to really come through! What’s great about this recipe, is that you can prep the ingredients ahead on your meal prep day, so it can make for a super easy weeknight meal! Slow cooker meals are great for weeknight dinners, because you do the prep ahead, you can just throw everything in and go!

Slow Cookers are great for weeknight dinners! If you prep the ingredients ahead, then you can just dump them in and let the slow cooker go. Remember to always follow safety and directions when it comes to using the slow cooker. I often put this easy slow cooker beef chili into my weeknight meal rotation. I do all of my food prep on Sundays.

When I am planning this Slow Cooker Beef Chili as a weeknight meal, I prepare the ingredients on Sunday! I brown the meat and onions, I dice the onion, and even measure the spices into a Ziploc! You can store everything in the meat and veggies in the fridge and then throw in the slow cooker during the week! The nice part about this Chili is that most of the ingredients are “dump and go”! Sometimes I add diced green pepper and celery.. and If i decide to do this, I also chop these ahead on Sunday, so I can just dump them in! I also dice and store any toppings I may want add to the chili, such as green onion, yellow onion, etc..!

What you will need to make this Slow Cooker Beef Chili

2 lbs grass-fed Ground Beef – THE ONLY ONE I USE

1 large onion – chopped

2 cans of 10oz condensed tomato soup

2 10.5 oz cans of diced tomatoes

1 cup water

1 to 2 cans light pink kidney beans (red kidney beans work fine too) (based on preference)

1/3 cup chili powder

2 TBSP ground cumin

1 TBSP garlic powder

salt & pepper to taste

How to make this Slow Cooker Beef Chili

1. Cook beef and 1/4 of the diced onion until onion is soft and beef is browned.
2. Pour off any fat.
3. Mix beef, onion, garlic, soup, tomatoes, water, beans, chili powder, garlic powder and cumin in crock-pot slow cooker.
4. Cover and cook on LOW for 8 to 10 hours or on HIGH for 4 to 5 hours or until done.
5. Stir and season with salt and pepper to taste after done slow cooking. Add more chili powder or cumin if desired. Add in small increments until you get the flavor where you want it!

Tips for Successful Weeknight Dinners

• Pick a time during the weekend to meal prep for the week. The more you meal prep, the faster you will get at it. Chop all veggies, organize all ingredients and thaw any meat you may need.
• Stick to one grocery shopping day. The easiest way for me to do this, is to keep a running list of meals. On Thursday I pick which meals I want to make for the following week, and generate my grocery list with the ingredients I need. Friday, after work I grocery shop!
• Meal prepping may sound like a lot of work, but it is actually a lot less work in the long run. Once you get the hang of things, it is actually quite easy! Any time I see a recipe on Instagram or in a magazine, that I might want to make, I add it to my running list in my notes called “Meals to Make!” This way, I always have a list to choose from!

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