An old hippie gave me this recipe:
http://sideofbeef.wordpress.com/2010...-basic-recipe/
If you click to the next entry you'll see how I made it with dry beans instead of canned and used up all my CSA veggies too
http://sideofbeef.wordpress.com/2010...oes-csa-chili/
There's no meat substitute in it though so that might be tricky for your dh... and it doesn't look/smell like chili until the very end when everything starts really coming together, but it's truly amazing once it does! It's great with chips and sour cream and topped with cheese and if you want to try it sometime when you do have meat, you can make the ground beef on the side and let people add as much or little as they like. I do that so the chili lasts in the fridge for a good week without going bad. If the meat was in it, it wouldn't last as long!
ETA - and most of the time we just eat it vegetarian (it'd be vegan but we do put cheese on it most of the time because we love cheese).
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