Today I’m sharing my recipe and cost-break-down of Stewart-Size Chili.  Two weekends each month I make a stock pot full of this meaty-veggie-goodness. It goes a long way, and is one of our family’s favorite meals!
Now it’s time for homeschool math. Â Are you ready mom?
 {Don’t worry, I’m sitting here with my calculator.}
 The total cost to make our chili is approx $15,  we enjoy 6 meals over 3 days–Friday night dinner through Monday lunch.
$15 /6 meals = $2.50 per meal / 6 people eating = $0.41 per person/per meal 🙂
– Here’s the recipe –
Homemade Chile Printable Recipe
**Let me add this is a large recipe and I have a 20 Qt stock pot. Â You may want to cut it in 1/2 for your family. Â Also, the 3 cups rice is 1 cup of uncooked rice as one reader has pointed out. Â Sorry folks, it’s hard to put what is in my stock pot into recipe form, but we’ll get there!**
 I always serve the chili with crackers or corn bread.  Some of us like to decorate our dinner with sour cream and/or shredded cheese too.
 Additional Ways To Serve Chili:
- Over baked potatoes
- Over noodles {my personal favorite}
- Over Nacho chips
- In a Chili Corn Bread Bake {YUM}
- Chili Sandwich {I had to included this.  Our 2-year-old loves to make “Chili Sandwiches.”}
Tried your chili today. Wonderful! Even with my largest stockpot, I had to cut the recipe in half for it to fit! And I have 9 children at home! That makes a LOT of chili! You may want to alter your recipe to show whether the 3 cups of rice should be 3 cups of cooked rice (as in 1 cup dry), or 3 cups of dry rice (resulting in about 9 cups cooked) Very tasty, and mild enough for my little ones. (I deliberately used mild chili powder–the older ones added some cayenne pepper to theirs.)
Oh my…THANK YOU for the heads up! That was my first attempt at actually putting a recipe into written form. I will change the amount of rice needed. 🙂 Besides that, I’m glad you enjoyed it. I think the sausage adds nice flavor. xoxo
I was wondering something about this recipe. I bought the dried beans and will be cooking them, but when it’s time to add the beans to the rest of the ingredients do I include the liquid they were cooked in or do I drain the liquid off and add the beans only (with no cooking liquid)?
Great question, Theresa. I drain the beans, then add them. 🙂
Great! Thank you so much! Can’t wait to taste this today! :0)