My husband is a chili lover. I used this as a basis for my chili with what I had on hand. I added green and red pepper and I had alot of sausage and used that instead of beef. I dont care for chunks of tomato and had the sauce so I did 28 ounces of sauce and added a cup of water so mine was thinner than I care for but ill know better next time. Otherwise this was awesome and I'll follow it a little more to the t next time but we definitely loved it! I doubled it so we can have the leftovers for chili 5 way on Saturday :)