I haven’t had a lot of energy today. I did my aikido class in the morning. When I got home, I ate and took a long nap. I got up, and started running my 9 miles (which I still 3 miles to go). I didn’t know what to make for dinner. I went through a couple of my cook books, and had some ideas. But I really didn’t want to go to the store. I asked my wife what she wanted for dinner. She suggested that we pull some of the chili out of the freezer. (see my Low Fat Chili Recipe) I asked, how about having chili dogs? She said that sounded like a good idea. Great! I didn’t have to leave the house! I pulled some of the frozen chili out of the freezer, cut it out of the FoodSaver bag, and put it into a large pot over medium low heat. Then I went back to running on the treadmill. Every once in a while I would take a short break from running, and go and stir the chili. When the chili was completely thawed and heated through, I put a few Ball Park Fat Free Beef Franks into a water of water and set the burner to high. After a little while they were done cooking. We just set the hot dog buns on a plate, laid the dogs on the buns, and spooned some of the chili over the dogs. We ate them with forks as there was too much chili on the dogs to eat easily with our hands.

The ease of pulling stuff like chili out of the freezer is a great reason to have a big freezer! Also the FoodSaver sealer is a great plus. And my chili recipe (actually it was my mom’s) is so easy to make in big batches!

Posted by Rob in Whatever on March 24th, 2007 |