By the end of this week, the high temp is going to be in the low 40s. You know what that means? We need some I'm-really-cold-and-need-something-to-warm-me-up meals. And it's a bonus when the meal makes itself in the crock-pot...right? Try this one out!
*original recipe found here
**another bonus...this could be used for a Meatless Monday meal!
Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili
2 sweet potatoes
1 onion
1 red bell pepper
1 can black beans
1 can fire roasted tomatoes
1.5 cups vegetable broth
3 cloves of garlic
1 t cumin
1 t paproka
1/2 t salt
juice of 1 lime
Chop up the sweet potatoes, onion and red bell pepper. Add all ingredients into the crock pot and cook on low for 6-8 hours or high for 4-5. You can top it with a spoonful of plain Greek yogurt or some cheese. Enjoy!
Ever heard of Meatless Mondays? I have a few times and always thought it sounded like a great idea. But the revolution usually started there, with the thinking. So now I’d like to take that thinking in to action, and challenge you to do the same!
It really all started back during World War I. The U.S. Food Administration urged families to reduce consumption of key staples to aid the war effort. “Food Will Win the War,” the government proclaimed, and “Meatless Monday” and “Wheatless Wednesday” were introduced to encourage Americans to do their part.
The idea would come and go in the coming years. According to a 1929 Saturday Evening Post article, “Americans began to look seriously into the question of what and how much they were eating. Lots of people discovered for the first time that they could eat less and feel no worse – frequently for the better”. The campaign came back again during World War II.
Meatless Monday was revived in 2003 by former ad man turned health advocate Sid Lerner, who saw the prevalence of preventable illnesses associated with excessive meat consumption and decided to introduce Meatless Monday as a public health awareness campaign. The initiative was backed by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for a Livable Future and endorsed by 30 schools of public health.
Why go meatless? Check out this video: (If you’re a subscriber and get my posts through e-mail, you’ll have to click out of the e-mail and onto the blog to see the video, I think)
The benefits really are endless. And what better way to start the week than with some clean eating that helps our bodies?!
The website has a great resource full of recipe ideas for all meals and snacks. Check ‘em out!
~What’s your favorite meatless meal or snack? For me, it would be nuts and some good ol’ black beans.
