There are probably a million chili recipes out there, it isn’t a particularly difficult dish to make, and mine is even easier because it uses a store bought mix.

Packaged chili mix!? Sacrilege! Cheat! Unfollow! Unfollow!

Relax chili snobs, there is nothing wrong with pre-mixed seasoning packets. They stay fresh in their hermetically sealed pouches and stop you from replacing those jars of spices you never finish before they loose potency.

But, but, they’re full of chemicals and stuff I can’t pronounce!

No, they’re not. In addition to the spices the one I use (from an ancient Texas city) has nothing more than corn starch and powdered vegetable oil to thicken the chili, and Silicon Dioxide to keep it from clumping.

Aha! Silicon Dioxide! Bad chemicals!

It comes from beets, alfalfa, brown rice and oats.

Oh…. still… cheating!

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