Crockpot Solutions

I don’t know who invented the concept of the electric slow cooker. Whoever it is, I would like to say thank you. The electric slow cooker has saved me on numerous days when life is running at the speed of light. I feel very virtuous when I leave to take the kids to school in the morning and I have not only made four breakfasts, four lunches, and have also started dinner. Then all day I remind myself that dinner is already made, dishes are already done (for the most part) and that no matter what time we get home for that day’s activities, dinner will still get on the table, on time. Not just any dinner, a home cooked, nutritious, well rounded dinner that I made myself…that morning. Here are a list of recipes that you too can put in a slow cooker and go. Enjoy! Here is an extra tip: If the recipe requires browning the meat first, I do it the night before so that the morning will go smoother. I also chop the veggies if need be. Additionally, if I have the ingredients, I will brown the meat and cut the veg for an additional dinner and put it in a freezer bag so that I have an extra meal ready any time. Two dinner for the time it took me to prep one.