My wife and I have been making a lot of chili in the past 6 months. Usually we'll make a pretty large pot, split it in two, freeze it, and take it out of the freezer periodically. This has the advantage of quick meals that are filling, easy to re-heat, and actually pretty healthy.
But after 6 months of making the same recipe over and over again I'm interested in branching out and trying something different but with similar advantages to chili:
- can make in bulk
- acts as a complete meal
- easily frozen
- filling
- hits the important food groups / lots of healthy vegetables
- is somewhat easy to make
The obvious ones that come to mind are soups or stews, but soup doesn't seem to check the complete meal box, and stew doesn't seem to check the nutritious box.
Finding a good, but similar alternative seems like a tall order, so far I've come up short.
But after 6 months of making the same recipe over and over again I'm interested in branching out and trying something different but with similar advantages to chili:
- can make in bulk
- acts as a complete meal
- easily frozen
- filling
- hits the important food groups / lots of healthy vegetables
- is somewhat easy to make
The obvious ones that come to mind are soups or stews, but soup doesn't seem to check the complete meal box, and stew doesn't seem to check the nutritious box.
Finding a good, but similar alternative seems like a tall order, so far I've come up short.