Dice carrots, celery, onion and butternut squash and put into the slow cooker.
Add the tomato sauce, diced tomatoes and all the spices, then stir together. Then add the raw ground turkey and mix it all together.
Set the slow cooker to cook for 6 or 8 hours (I’ve done both times, and both turn out great).
HOT SAUCE – because I have a 4 and 6-year-old, I leave out the hot sauce until one hour of cooking time left (otherwise, I would add the hot sauce at the beginning with everything else). With an hour left, everything will be cooked, so I scoop out the non-spicy portions, then add the 1/2 cup of franks (or slightly less than 1/2 cup) for the last hour of cooking. If you don’t like spicy food, you can leave the hot sauce out altogether, and it still tastes great!