Cheesy Vegetables - Heather W.

Cheesy Vegetable Recipe‏

2 -3 bunches of broccoli

Small head of Cauliflower

½ bag carrots

8 oz. Velveeta

1 stick butter

1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup

Pre heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9X13 pan. Wash and cut up veggies and boil for 2 minutes. Line greased pan with veggies. In a microwave-safe bowl melt Velveeta and butter by heating for 20 second intervals and stirring until melted and well mixed. Add the soup and mix well. Pour evenly over veggies. Cover and bake for 45 minutes to an hour. YUM.

Calico Beans - Debi W.

1 lb. ground beef - browned

1 lb. bacon (Debi cooks hers but some people don't)

1/2 c. chopped onion

2 t. prepared mustard

4 t. vinegar

3/4 c. brown sugar

1/2 c. ketchup

1 lg. can Bush's baked beans

1 can green beans

1 can garbanzo beans

1 can canelli beans

1 can black beans

Drain all the beans except the bush's baked beans.

Brown ground beef, add onions and cook until onions are clear.  Add bacon, mustard, vinegar, ketchup and brown sugar.  Add beans.  Cook in crockpot on high 3 hours or in oven at 350 degrees for 40 min.

*To make this more healthy you could use turkey burger.  I used 7% fat ground beef and there wasn't any fat that cooked out.  Also turkey bacon or 1/2 the bacon, I used low salt bacon.  You can use any kind of beans you want to use, you don't have to use bushes, you could just use pork-n-beans and add a bit more ketchup, mustard, vinegar and sugar.