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Did you know that Fall is only 2 weeks away?! Fall is our families favorite season. I don't know if it is:

• Brisk mornings
• Beauty of colorful falling leaves
• Everyone is getting out while they still can before winter comes
• Warm soups with homemade bread
• Apple Picking
• Pumpkin Patches
• Pumpkin Carving
• Final Harvests from our Garden
• Promise of Thanksgiving & Christmas.

Whatever it is, it is our favorite! Fall means soup time in our family. I know some kids bawk at soup, but we all LOVE our soups! We have a wide variety & they always hit the spot and warm us up!

When we had Minnie someone brought us a meal of Sweet Chili. It was AMAZING and were were instantly hooked! I searched everywhere and tweaked (as we call it here) recipes until we came up with this! Whenever I take it somewhere it seems to be a favorite because it is yummy, hearty, and even picky eaters seem to like the surprising sweet flavor.

Sweet Chili

16 oz tomato sauce

16 oz diced or crushed tomatoes

1/4 cup molasses (or brown sugar)

1 teas dry mustard

16 oz baked beans (or 2 cans if you like a lot of beans)

1 teas salt

1/2 teas black pepper

4 slices bacon

1 large green bell pepper, chopped

1 lb ground beef

In skillet cook bacon

& pepper until pepper is tender & bacon is done. Put in a stock pot or crockpot. Brown beef in skillet; add to stock pot or crock pot. Add remaining ingredients and simmer 30 minutes (or all day on low in crock pot). Serve warm with corn bread & YUM!