The Slow Cooker is a fabulous invention!\u00a0 When I do my meal planning for the week and there’s a day that’s super busy, my slow cooker is the solution.\u00a0 Having a hot, homemade, healthy, and delicious meal waiting for me at the end of a long day is glorious.\u00a0 On my drive home from work, I’m still absorbed in the events of the day.\u00a0 But then I open the door into our house and the tantalizing smells of dinner immediately catch my attention and dissolve the worries of the day.<\/p>\n
A main reason I’m a big fan of my slow cooker is because I don’t worry about timing.\u00a0 I’m at work the whole day and can leave work, run a bunch of errands, and come home to a warm meal waiting for me.\u00a0 It doesn’t matter if I get caught up along the way, my hot meal will be delicious anytime I get home.<\/p>\n
The timing factor is also very helpful for my husband.\u00a0 His work is so unpredictable that your guess is as good as mine as to when he’ll be home.\u00a0 It feels good to have a hot meal waiting for him.\u00a0 Trying to safely keep some conventional entrees (i.e. roasted chicken breast) warm for unknown amounts of time have resulted in the use of great quantities of condiments to try to hide the dried out flavor.\u00a0 On the contrary, the slow cooker meals produce smiles of satisfaction.<\/p>\n
Two of my favorite meals are Slow Cooker Vegetable Chili and Cowboy Casserole.\u00a0 I use soy crumbles instead of ground beef so I call my version Cowgirl Casserole.\u00a0 It’s a tasty way to add soy to your diet and you don’t have to brown soy crumbles which saves you a step.\u00a0 Both these recipes taste great, but just as great are the directions that state: Add all ingredients to slow cooker.\u00a0 Cover and cook.\u00a0 Could it get any easier?<\/p>\n
Do you have questions about slow cookers?\u00a0 Post a question and we’ll answer some of the questions next month.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Slow Cooker is a fabulous invention!\u00a0 When I do my meal planning for the week and there’s a day that’s super busy, my slow cooker is the solution.\u00a0 Having a hot, homemade, healthy, and delicious meal waiting for me at the end of a long day is glorious.\u00a0 On my drive home from work, I’m still absorbed in the Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[790,780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-i","category-nutrition-2","cat-790-id","cat-780-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/vegetable-chili-300x2251.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4605"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9076,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4605\/revisions\/9076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}