Food Matters Today I am cooking a Veggie Chilli …. With Kidney Beans, Black beans ans red Lentils, I start with a lge onion, garlic and a hot pepper I use a Jalepano !! I small can diced tomatoes, i can tomatoe paste, chilli spices Place olive oil in a pan .. slice and dice onion and pepper.. Place in open saute For this Chili I used Canned beans I drained the beans and rinsed them added them to Onion and poepper mix ! add tomatoes, tomatoe paste and chilli spices.. cook untill bubbling then simmer for 1 hour.. Mean while I cook my rice I use brown rice , or Quinoia .. I usually cook extra!! To go along with this I picked Lettuce and tomatoes out of the Garden for a salad and yeaterday I baked a baguette !

Lets talk about “Beans” Beans a great for the guts Microbiome !! full of Antioxidants , protein and fibrethere are many types of beans, chick peas, ot gabonzo beans I use these a lot.. Lentils red and green, Kidney beans red and white! Limabeans, black afew different types, pinto beand (refried beans) Navy or harricot beans. beans , peas, soya, peanuts and the list goes on …. They are a veryunderrated food , they may help to reduce blood sugar, can improve cholesterol, levels, aand help to maintain a healthy gut biome.. When we started this food journey 3 yrs ago David was on 3 different meds one for Cholerserol, one for Blood Pressure and one for gout, he suffered terrible with gout.. Now he doesn’t take gour meds or cholesterol meds !! We find eating plant based diet is helping us both with health and also with our budget !!