Slowcooker Recipes that Save Time and Money

Posted on Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 6:58 am
by Sophia Darby

Who has time to prepare meals from scratch every day? If you’re like most people your busy life often gets in the way of preparing tasty and healthy dinners. Slowcooker recipes rescue you from the daily dinner scramble by allowing you to make delicious meals with little effort while being budget friendly to boot.

It can be nearly impossible to create mouth-watering meals when you only have a short period of time to cook them in. Today’s busy families are often crunched for time between work, activities and household chores. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a meal pre-cooked and waiting for you at dinner time? That’s exactly what you get when using your slowcooker.

Prepping slowcooker recipes takes, on average, very little time. Simply cut up your ingredients, place them in the slowcooker’s pot and leave it to simmer and cook all day while you get on with your daily activities. Don’t have time in the morning? Prep your meal the night before, refrigerate overnight and turn it on in the morning as you’re heading out the door. When you arrive back home your delicious meal is ready when you are.

Another advantage to cooking with a slowcooker is the process’ ability to turn cheaper cuts of meat into tender, delicious meals. When grilling or frying you often have to choose more expensive, marbled cuts of meat to avoid a brick-like outcome. A slowcooker, so named because it cooks meats over a longer period of time at lower temperatures, breaks down tougher connective tissues and delivers premium meals at rock bottom prices.

Every time you throw away leftover foods you’re throwing money in the garbage. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to quickly and easily reuse those leftovers in a future meal and save money on your grocery bill? With slowcooker recipes it’s simple to use leftover roasts, steaks, rice or even vegetables. Make a stew with your leftover pot roast, throw pre-ccoked vegetables in a few minutes before serving to reheat them and the cost of that night’s dinner became pennies a serving. For leftover rice use it to make stuffed green peppers that is both healthy and inexpensive thanks to the reuse of leftovers.

If you’re looking for ways to cut back on your grocery spending or the stress it takes to cook a meal from scratch every night try using slowcooker recipes instead. You’ll save your money and time for other things while still enjoying tasty meals with little effort.

Beef Stew in the Slowcooker: 2 pounds fresh stewing beef or leftover roast, cut into 1-inch cubes 4 carrots 3 potatoes 1 medium onion, chopped 1 celery stalk, sliced cup flour tsp. pepper tsp. salt 1 garlic clove, minced 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce 1 cups beef broth 2 tbsp. HP sauce 1 tsp. Paprika Place your cubed meat into the slowcooker. Mix flour, pepper and salt together and pour the mixture over the meat to coat thoroughly. Then add the remaining ingredients. Stir together well. Place the lid on your slowcooker and cook on low for 10 to 12 hours or, if rushed, 4 to 6 hours on high heat. Stir well before serving your stew.

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