Summer Party Chili

I judged a chili contest a couple years ago, and a 12 year old girl made this party chili which I absolutely loved. It has so many great ingredients and tastes wonderful.. and it's great for summertime.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 to 2 lbs. ground beef
• 1 cup celery, chopped
• 1 - 6 oz. can tomato paste
• 1 - 16 oz. can wax beans
• 1 - 16 oz. can pork & beans
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 onion chopped
• 1 can tomato soup
• 1 - 16 oz. can green beans
• 1 - 16 oz. can spicy chili beans
• 1 cup ketchup
• 2 Tbl. mustard

DIRECTIONS

Brown ground beef, drain. Add onion and celery and cook beer until tender. Add tomato soup, tomato paste and ketchup. Cover and simmer on low for 15 minutes. Put ground beef mixture into large casserole dish. Add all remaining ingredients and stir well. Bake in 350o over for 1 hour.

OR

After browning ground beef, onion and celery, put all ingredients in a crockpot and stir. Cook on low for 4 hours.