[aigel]

We are drifting away from beans to desert and chili now. Note that chili on the trail or away from home in the backcountry was based on a brick of chili that's made from straight up meat, no ground stuff and then dehydrated and formed into a brick. I have an old meat chili recipe like that. You start with cubed meat and it is boiled until they fall apart. Pretty darn good - doesn't even require beans.