Mushrooms instead of meat in chili!

[KraftMan]

I made chili using all the usual ingredients last night, except that I had all these sliced mushrooms I needed to use up. I used those instead of beef and oh my god it was so good. I loved it just as much as my chili recipe that has meat in it. It was filling and delicious. I highly recommend giving it a try because you still get a ton of flavor, it's filling, but way lower calories and fats. You still get lots of proteins from the beans.

[MeSarah]

Do you cook the mushrooms first? I'm having a hard time picturing how this would turn out in my head.

[TracyK]

Is it as satisfying as eating meat like beef or chicken? Mushrooms have a consistency to them so the texture would be good, but do you just end up hungry in an hour?

[Bethie]

Does the type of mushrooms matter to how filling it is?

[Speeddemon]

Do you put beef stock in or something? How do you give it flavor? I can't imagine mushrooms would go as far as ground beef. How do you fill out the missing taste?