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hey. it's derek with excuse proof fitnesshere with shane, and this another episode of excuse proof fitness in thekitchen. today we're going to be making "crazy quick crockpot chili" the first ingredient in the chili is somesort of ground meat. i have some ground turkey. actually got it onsale it's organic, which is normally pretty expensive, but a quick money saving tip ifyou get meat right before the sell by date it's usually on sale. so you can use turkey, ground chicken, groundbeef, ground bison is great. whatever sort of ground meat you want. ifyou don't want to use beef or any sort of

meat, you can use extra beans for a vegetarianchili. the next ingredient we have are some cannedbeans. i have some canned black beans and kidney beans. you can alsoused dried beans, but since we're going to make this extra quick i use canned beans forconvienence. the next ingredient we're going to use issome organic brown rice. this is going to add a little bit of extra substanceto the chili. i like to use some bagged vegetables. youcan use any variety of bagged vegetables but i like to use mushrooms.they're extremely healthy for you. i have some pre-sliced mushrooms already washed andready to go.

now we need the spices. one of the thingsthat you can use is of course garlic. i don't like to take the time topeel the garlic and all of that. you can either use pre-peeled garlic and chop it up witha hand chopper, or i have some pre-minced garlic here ready to go. finally i like to use dried spices to flavorthe chili. of course you have chili powder. you can add in whateversort of spices you like. i have some italian seasoning. this has some oregano, rosemary,sage. i also have some taco seasoning. this is something i enjoy,you can add whatever you like. most chili recipes call for using canned dicetomatoes. that's fine, but just to save a

little bit of extra time,once again this crazy quick, i'm going to use some vegetable juice. you can use v8 orany sort of vegetable juice blend. this is already going to have the tomatoesand some celery and some other vegetables in it. let's make the crazy quick crockpot chili.the reason i love this recipe is i've made a recipe very similar to thisand all sorts of variations all through college when i was busy. i'd be gone all day, i'dcome back home and literally about 10 minutes before going to sleep i'dbe able to throw these ingredients in the crock-pot and have about two daysworth of food whenever i woke up in the morning.

we're going to start out here with the turkey.most chili recipes call for browning it on the stove ahead of time. whati'm going to do is by using a lean meat not even bother with that. that can be done toimprove appearance and trim off some of the fat, but it's not necessary.so this is going to save us quite a bit of time by taking it straight intothe crockpot. you can just chop it up here. i'm going toadd a little bit of my seasoning to it right now. i just sort of eyeball itbut that's about a tablespoon. now i'm going to chop it up here and get that seasoningmixed in here. i don't take too much time to do this. after it'sdone cooking it falls apart pretty easily.

then i'm going to take the rice and add itin. i'm going to add in half a cup of dried rice. not that much. so fourounces. then i add in water two-to-one ratio of waterto rice. so if i do half a cup of rice, i'm going to add in a cup of water. i'm going to add in a little bit of extrawater. i don't mind a chili that's more like a stew. add in one more cup. next we want to drain the beans. we've alreadydone that. of course, you can use dried beans which you'll need toadd in the extra water. i don't recommend using dried kidney beans because you'll needto pre-soak them first. but

for other beans like black beans it doesn'thurt to just put them in the crockpot and let them cook. we've got the beans added in. i'm going tostart stirring it around a little bit here. i'm going to add in a little more of my spices.a tablespoon of my chili powder. it doesn't hurt to go easy on thespices because you can always add more spices after the fact. you can't take out the spicesif you add in too many. i'm going to add in some garlic. i'm goingto take a tablespoon and mix that in. i'll add in my mushrooms. you can see this recipe is just a matter ofdumping ingredients in and mixing it. it couldn't

get much simpler. now i'll add in the vegetable juice. it'sup to you how much you want to use. i'm going to use 2-4 cups. we'll add 2 cups. i'm going to add in another tablespoon ofchili powder. you can sometimes get spicy vegetables juices. now i'll add in some italian season. a tablespoonhere. that looks pretty good. i'll add in another cup and a half of vegetablejuice.

we're going to let this cook. you can letit cook on high for three to four hours or low for six to eight hours. we're done with the chili. i let it cook aboutsix hours. i set my crockpot to shut off automatically. the convenientthing about that is i can make this recipe right before i go to bed or right before igo out for the day. then i just let it cook and the next morning i have foodfor at least a couple days. it only took about

diet soup v8,5 minutes to make. if you think this is great, we're going toadd one more special ingredient, and that's some pinapple.

dude, that's delicious.