By Linda Gassenheimer, Tribune News Service

Here’s a warm and comforting vegetable stew made easy with the help of your freezer. Keep the ingredients on hand, and you’ll have a hearty meal ready in minutes with almost no effort.

Use the vegetables called for in the recipe or substitute any others you have on hand using the recipe as a blueprint for quantities.

HELPFUL HINTS:

Any type of shredded cheese can be used.

The heat is up to you, add more hot pepper flakes if you like it hot.

COUNTDOWN:

Assemble ingredients.

Start stew.

While stew cooks, prepare avocado slices.

SHOPPING LIST?

To buy: 1 container frozen diced onion, 1 container frozen corn kernels, 1 container frozen lima beans, 1 can no-salt-added diced tomatoes, 1 bottle ground cumin, 1 bottle hot pepper flakes, 1 small

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