Slowcooker Recipes: Easy on Your Schedule and Budget
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.
The beauty of preparing slowcooker recipes is they can be prepped in minutes ahead of time and left to roast slowly all day while you get on with your buys day. Your meal can be quickly prepped either in the morning or the night before and stored in the refrigerator, ready to be plugged in and slow cooked in an instant before you leave the house. Then, when it’s time for the family to sit down for dinner, your meal is ready to be served.
Using a slowcooker to prepare your meals not only save time but money as well. Due to the slow cooking process you are able to buy cheaper cuts of meat that would otherwise need hours of marinating in order to turn out tender. Stewing meats generally cost a fraction of the choice cuts yet turn out just as tender and delicious when prepared in the slowcooker. Have trouble with meats such as pork or chicken turning out tough? Slowcooking eliminates that and returns juicy meat every time.
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 find yourself crunched for time or exceeding your grocery budget with expensive meats give slowcooker recipes a try. You’ll love not having to rush to prepare dinner everyday and you’ll enjoy the savings as well.
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.
