I love cooking for my family. I love baking and making breads from scratch. It’s really important to me to serve healthy dinners to my family. I would not be able to keep up with healthy dinners without some help from my Slow Cooker 
My slow cooker is a little over 3 years old. It’s fading and definitely does not look brand new. The great thing though, it still works like it’s brand new! My slow cooker is a lifesaver on busy nights! I put the ingredients in the slow cooker before I leave to work and by the time I am home BAM we have dinner! Just have to heat some veggies or another easy side dish.
Does Your Family Deserve Healthy Dinners?
Of course your family deserves healthy dinners and so do you! Every day we are bombarded with healthy options: kale, organic everything, quinoa, grass fed beef, the list goes on and on. Seriously, it doesn’t end. And it’s intimidating!
How can you make the best choices for your family? Healthy eating doesn’t have to be complicated. We keep dinner simple over here.
I typically plan 2-3 slow cooker meals per week. If you follow me on Pinterest, you’ll see my What’s for Dinner board and Yummy Food board both have a good amount of healthy dinners that can be made in a slow cooker. In fact, I just made Salsa Verde Chicken in my slow cooker and it came out GREAT.
Why I Love Using a Slow Cooker
- Saves time. Like I mentioned earlier- I put the ingredients in the slow cooker and off to work I go! When I return I have a delicious meal that is ready to be paired up with veggies, a salad or rice and beans or sweet potato fries.
- Flavorful. Slow cooking really helps bring out the flavor in your food. I especially love making pork roast in the slow cooker!
- Easy clean up. Since you’re just using the slow cooker, there is much less to clean up. This may be my favorite part, ’cause even though I am a [little] bit of clean freak, I’d rather spend my time doing something else 🙂
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Recipes to Try
Easy Slow Cooker Chicken Fajitas from Cooking Classy
Aaaahhmazzing Pork Roast found at add a pinch
The best Lemon Garlic Chicken from No. 2 Pencil
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I will I had one! My favorite cooking equipment is the pressure cooker which just magically cooks food in minutes 😉 All your recipes look yum!
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Daisy, my sister in law showed me how to use a pressure cooker. But I was afraid that the lid would blow off so I never tried it! LOL!
I absolutely love my crockpot! With 5 kids it makes my life so much easier. I need another one!
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I have 2!
All of these look so good. It gave me meal ideas. I need to start using my crockpot more.
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Awesome! I hope you can plan at least one crock pot meal this week, it really is a time saver!
I’ve been trying to use my slow cooker more lately. I agree that it is such a life saver! I truly need to gather up some recipes that my family is sure to love and just start making them. These recipes look good, but my husband has allergies that prevent me from using them. ;(
I think the best thing about the slow cooker is that you can make so many recipes with it. I hope you can find something that your husband can eat too!
Thanks for sharing! I need to use me slow cooker more often especially with how busy my family is. looking forward to trying this fajita recipe. #HomeMattersParty
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Another great recipe! Thank you so much for sharing it on the #HomeMattersParty
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Love the convenience of a slow cooker. Toss it in together, set it on low, go to work. Come home to food. Yes!
This is great! I am a huge slow cooker fan-all year long! I just tried the chicken fajita recipe-it was awesome! Thanks for sharing at #HomeMattersParty
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I love this!! I used to have a slow cooker, but it went out on me earlier this year. Sob! And they are so hard to find…i barely found this one. I’m hoping I’ll find another one soon, because it was a life saver for me (and those pictures made me hungry!)
Rosilind. I do hope you have found one by now. Try your local thrift shop too.
I love my slow cooker and need to use it more often! It can be such a lifesaver. Happy to be co-hosting the #HomeMattersParty with you this week!
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That lemon-garlic chicken looks amazing! Pinning to try! #HomeMattersParty
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Have never used a slow cooker before, sounds quite interesting!!
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Such great recipes! Tweeted! #HomeMattersParty
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I would die with my crock pot. Or should I say crock pots. I have several. It is the only way I cook during the winter. Love having you as a cohost on #homemattersparty
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I LOVE my slow cooker! I think it’s the same one you have! I rediscovered slow cooking within the last year and don’t know how I managed without it.
I lovvvvve Slow cooker recipes, they are the best! Especially this time of year! I love the one with putting the entire chicken inside. That’s a good healthy option! Putting that one on my list 🙂