What is Reddit's opinion of Carroll Shelby's Original Texas Chili Kit, 4-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 12)?

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I'll just leave this here: http://www.amazon.com/Carroll-Shelbys-Original-Texas-4-Ounce/dp/B000H23Z1C

That, plus beef, plus fire-roasted tomatoes, plus beer = awesomeness.

I've done the from-scratch stuff a bunch of times, even fire-roasting the veggies myself, and putting in grilled steak, pulled pork, etc. This Shelby's mix, plus beef, tomatoes, and beer, is still the best I've had anywhere.

Bonus: Top it with fritos, cheese, onions, and Cholula sauce for instant win.

get yourself a box of Carrol Shelby's Chili Mix and instead of the 8oz can of tomato juice, use prune juice. Also, instead of the ground beef, use your 'veggie approved' quorn or whatever.

I find cooking for just myself the hardest part of not living at my parent's anymore. I grew up in a family of 6, then took culinary classes where I was making food for 40 people or more. Making food for just me is hard, especially as I get bored eating the leftovers over and over again before they go bad.

These are my favorite 20 minute and under meals, that if there are leftovers I like enough that I don't get bored of them before they go bad.

Quesadilla with salsa, or burritos (heat up burrito beans, add cheese and salsa when they're on the stove).

Grilled cheese, BLT, or PB&J.

Green salad, with whatever veggies I happened to pick up with the lettuce (cherry tomatoes, green onion, button mushrooms, mini sweet peppers, cucumber, carrot, radish, etc) add croutons, cheese, and dressing when I serve it. When I make it just for me it can last 4 or so days. At my dad's house, with my brother there, it's gone in one meal.

Spaghetti. I just get a jar of sauce and whichever noodles strike my fancy. Then I brown some spicy Italian sausage, and saute some bell pepper and onion. Mix it all together.

Spicy sausage + sauteed veggies + rice. It has no name, it's just quick and easy and scratched my "nothing sweet and nothing loaded with carbs" itch when I got home from a 5-hour baking class at 8 at night.

French toast or pancakes, or fried eggs and toast. I'm a big believer in breakfast for dinner, but I'll make savory french toast too if I've got bread like one with bits of roasted garlic in it. I make pancakes from Bisquick and add sprinkles (the small round non-pareil ones) when they're cooking and don't bother using syrup because I never liked overly sweet pancakes or french toast.

Saturday Night Dinner. This is a family dish that my grandmother made for my dad's family every Saturday night. My dad is the oldest of 7, and there's 18 of us cousins. There are at least 25 variations of this (probably more now that some of the cousins kids are old enough to cook. My siblings and I have eaten it at least once a month our entire lives, always have the ingredients on hand at home, and take it to potlucks with rave reviews for how simple it is. Anyway...Cook some sausage in a large skillet. Add cans of pork and beans. Add seasonings. Add 1 to 2 sliced apples. Simmer with lid on until apples are soft. My version uses spicy sausage (but not Italian) cooked in crumbles, sauteed onion, a small amount of molasses and mustard, and I skip the apples (never liked them). My dad cooks up spicy sausage in patties then quarters them, uses onion and jalapeño, mustard, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, and a handful of brown sugar. One of my uncles uses maple breakfast sausage, tosses in some bacon too, maple syrup, and cubes the apples. As you can see, you can vary it as much as you want.

If I've got more time, I like this chili kit. I use a pound of ground beef and a pound of interesting sausage (I used chorizo once, for instance). Sautee onions and bell peppers. Use 2 cans of pinto beans, chose the fire roasted tomatos, and add in a can of the diced green chilis. Only takes about 10 minutes of prep, but it does need to stick around on the stove a while. Easy, but a little time consuming.

Also on the longer edge of things, but oh so good, what my family called soy sauce chicken. Bone in, skin on chicken thighs. Put into a baking dish. Douse in soy sauce (maybe a quarter inch deep in the pan). Turn chickens over so the sauce gets on the skin, then over again. Cook at 350 in the oven, turning them over or basting them occasionally until done. Usually about an hour or 90 minutes, and I turn them every 20 minutes. Serve with snow peans that have been sauteed with a hot sesame oil and rice. Again, not a lot of work, but more time consuming.

World's greatest bachelor food: Carroll Shelby's chili mix. You can't go wrong.