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Time Management with a Crock Pot

Posted 19th July 2008 by Jackie Lee, tagged cooking, time management, crock pot

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I love to cook, and since becoming a mom and working from home I have found cooking time gets smushed and we end up eating out.

I am working on getting fit and losing some fat, so eating Mexican out once a week is not really such a great idea.

I was looking around for some healthy recipes and found this amazing blog called Crockpot 365. This woman, Stephanie, made a new year's resolution to use her crockpot every day for a year.

What fun! She's blogging about it the whole way.

It was then the light dawned on me. The crock pot. What a great way to manage dinner and my time.

I have since started using the crockpot at least a couple days a week. It is so easy, and I can put it on in the morning (our good time of day) and dinner is just ready in the evening (our not so good time of day).

I don't have to heat up the house with the oven or stove during the summer, and I don't have to suddenly panic at 6 when Hanna's yelling "hungry hungry" and realize I forgot to make dinner again!

If you are looking for an easy way to manage your time as well as dinner I suggest you think about adding your crock pot to your cooking schedule.  





4 comments so far...

  • I just got a crock put and don't know what to do with it...help (it came with one or two recipies..and all heavy and meat. We are fish and veggie eaters...help

    Flag as inappropriate Posted by toyinsidermom on 17th May 2010

  • I love your stress free life. I love my crock pot and use it all the time with three kids in sports and working for myself. One of the companies I own is homemade gourmet and we cater to the crock pot moms because our products that you prepare are for crock pots I would love to talk with you more. I also own Shaklee health and wellness and that has saved my family on the wellness side. I am a owner of a medical Day spa too so as you can see my life is full of different things but I keep my stress level low and have the most wonderful family that supports me. Kathy

    Flag as inappropriate Posted by working and making it easy on 24th August 2008

  • I am quite astounded by the variety of meals she cooks in the crockpot. Sometimes over the weekend she will makes dips or deserts or something with the crockpot and not necessarily a whole meal.

    I was quite surprised ~ not just for soups anymore!

    Flag as inappropriate Posted by Jackie Lee on 21st July 2008

  • Hi, Jackie,
    Crockpots are great timesavers, and in the summer they don't heat up the kitchen. I just used mine the other day for crockpot burritos (easy). I'm going to check out the link, but I can't imagine using a crockpot every day for a year. I think we'd get a bit tired of it by then :)

    Flag as inappropriate Posted by on 21st July 2008

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