I love my own chili recipe but desperately needed to cut off my McCormick's Chili seasoning "addiction". It was getting too expensive & was tasting too salty lately. Anyway, I just needed to find a chili seasoning recipe and this was perfect. I didn't follow the rest of the recipe; however, I'm giving this 5 stars because it served my purpose of replacing the McCormicks. For my own chili recipe, I use both diced and stewed tomatoes; brown sugar vs. white sugar; a touch of cinnamon; roasted jalapeno peppers and finish it off with crushed Fritos and cheese.

Reviewed On: Nov. 10, 2009

This has been a family staple for years!! There are never any leftovers and I always get recipe requests. I first saw this recipe from Taste of Home years ago. Like the other reviews stated it's definitely better with less brown sugar, about 1/2 to 1 c instead. Drain the beans, I even rinse them too. I include about 1/4 c. of the bacon drippings for an extra naughty home cooked taste! Also, I add about 1/4 tsp of dry mustard.

Reviewed On: May 21, 2009