Hello and Welcome to Lesson 18 of
Our Free "Meal Planning 101" eCourse

Hello, and welcome to your eighteenth lesson.  This week let's think about the handy-dandy crock-pot (aka slow cooker).

Lesson Eighteen; Crock-Pot Recipes

I'm a woman who LOVES her crock-pots - yes "potSSS" :)  I have 3 - one small for warm appetizers and then a medium and a large.

If you love your crock pots too, consider this a friendly reminder to treat yourself and put it into use next week.

If you aren't convinced that a crock pot is for you, let me share with you some reasons you might love one:

• You get to prep dinner in the morning when everyone is fresh and happy - no more 5pm rush around when you and the kids are tired.
   
• Some recipes will even allow you to put all the ingredients into the crock pot before you go to bed so in the morning you just need to remove it from the fridge and plug it in - easy.
   
• By about noon the whole house smells fantastically like your dinner - yum!
   
• Less expensive cuts of meat will be very tender after an all day slow cook (so you save money).
   
• Flavor, flavor, flavor.  Because the foods "mingle" together all day in the crock pot, they have lots of time to develop great flavor!
   

Following are a couple recipes to get you started:
 

Easy Crock Pot Chicken & Stuffing

Ingredients:

4 boneless/skinless chicken breast halves
1 can cream of celery soup or cream of mushroom soup
1/3 cup milk
1 package seasoned stuffing mix with seasoning packet (we use Stove Top)
1 1/2 cups water
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Place chicken in crock pot. Combine soup of choice and milk and pour over chicken. Combine stuffing, seasoning packet, salt and pepper (is using) and water. Mix well. Spoon the mixture the over the chicken and soup. Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours.

Crock Pot Rice & Chops

Ingredients:

4 - 6 lean pork chops
1 cup rice (uncooked)
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
1 can chicken broth
1 cup fresh sliced mushrooms
1 small onion (diced)
1 teaspoon garlic powder or 1 clove fresh garlic (minced)

Directions:

Rinse and drain rice. In a large bowl combine rice, soups, mushrooms, onion and garlic. Mix well. Place rice mixture at bottom of crock pot. Lay pork chops over rice mixture. Cover and cook on low for approximately 8 hours.

Enjoy,

Crystal

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