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My Meatless Monday posts have fallen by the wayside, but I haven’t stopped participating!

This week, I prepared a bean based meal using my slow cooker.  It’s super easy, super-customizable and extremely inexpensive! You can also freeze it for later!

On a side note, you might want to have some Beano handy.

I wouldn’t really call it a recipe.  I just grabbed what I had in my pantry.

Here is what I used:

• 2 cans of White Kidney beans
• 2 cans of Kidney beans
• 2 cans of Dark Red Kidney beans
• 1 can of Black beans
• Frozen corn
• Frozen Black-eyed Pea & Green bean mix
• Canned tomatoes with diced chilies
• 6 or so Pepperoncinis (the pizza place gave me a bookoo since I wanted to try anchovies, but they stopped carrying them)
• Then, out of nowhere my boyfriend grilled some bone-in chicken legs (I guess it’s not a leg with no bone) and threw it in there!
• Seasoned with salt & pepper and nothing else
• I cooked it on high for a few hours (3-4), then overnight on low.

You can stock up on canned beans in the fall/winter when chili is popular or go to Save-A-Lot or Aldi type stores, where it’s ALWAYS inexpensive! Again…BEANO!!

Come back to Melissa Say What? each week for a new Meatless Monday post.

Meatless Monday was introduced in 2003, but stems back to World War I, when the U.S. Food Administration urged families to reduce consumption of key staples to aid the war effort. Read more about the history here.

Read about the benefits of going meatless just once per week here.

Nutritional FAQ.