September 2, 2022 Happy Friday before a 3 DAY WEEKEND, Slow Cookerers!! I have a bit of a confession to make... I get asked sometimes to speak at cooking events or conferences --- and I've got to admit that I always feel a bit out of place. I get it that I write cookbooks and I spend a lot of time thinking about recipes but really at my core --- I'm not a foodie. I cook because I need to eat and I need to feed the kids. I am not the kind of person who is ever going to have a Zen Moment chopping an
onion. I like slow cooking (crockpotting) because I can get the cooking for the day done and over with while I'm still wide awake and heavily caffeinated. and because of that I end up saving time and money. When you have a fully stocked freezer, fridge, and pantry and decide to cook at home you will ALWAYS end up saving time and money --- simply because you aren't wasting valuable thinking time at the
end of a busy work day trying to "figure out dinner" -- and you aren't reaching for the phone to order take out --- it's pretty awesome to walk into the house at the end of a hectic day to a fully cooked meal. And I've made it even easier. I have created 14 separate meal plans for the slow cooker. Each one has an itemized grocery list -- so all you need to do is print out the list or put it in your phone and follow
it. Just by following the list you will have ALL the food in the house necessary for an entire week's worth of meals. Here is the sales page for the meal
plans: https://stephanieodea.com/meal-plans/
Each Meal Plan has 5 recipes and the packets have been selected to reflect the wide variety of slow cooker meals that I have available in my cookbooks and on the
A Year of Slow Cooking website. I decided to offer 5 recipes, because it's the busy work week that really needs meal plan help, and since slow cooking lends itself to leftovers, I think you'll find that the meals can easily be stretched to last longer than 5 days if you'd
like.
Each packet sells for $5, which is a total bargain. That said, you can use the code "slowcook20" at check out to save an immediate 20% on the bundle pack -- which is ALL of the meal plans. You can save the packets to your hard drive to have forever and ever and ever. Yay! The packets are: SLOW COOKER STAPLES
pesto lasagna, super simple cranberry roast, traditional minestrone soup, general tso's chicken, puffy pizza casserole 5 INGREDIENTS OR LESS
Italian-style calico bean soup, simple beef stew, smoked sausage and pinto beans, eyes closed pot roast, lemon dill
salmon
honey garlic chicken, Herb --the catfish, dry rub ribs, Italian white bean chili, mulligatawny soup
AMERICAN
CLASSICS
macaroni and cheese, pizza soup, classic pulled pork, lasagna, beef stew
end of summer harvest soup, 20 to 40 clove garlic chicken, autumn sausage casserole, orange-apricot pork chops, chicken enchilada
chili
TAKE OUT FAKE OUT (1)
pasta fagioli, Vietnamese pho,hoisin chicken wings, KFC-inspired chicken, loose meat sandwiches
Vietnamese roasted chicken, falafel, Thai beef, Hawaiian ribs, Buffalo wing soup
herb garden chicken, halibut in white sauce, lentil minestrone, eggplant "parmesan" with feta, tortilla
soup
COLD
WEATHER
sausage and vegetable medley, clean out the pantry chili, brown sugar chicken, parmesan tilapia, carnitas
AROUND THE WORLD (1)
doro wat (Ethiopian Chicken Stew), Korean ribs, Thai coconut soup, Indian butter chicken (chicken Makhani), chicken chow mein
AROUND THE WORLD (2)
Indian curry, Asian shredded beef, Azorean beef stew, barbecued chicken and cornbread, big easy meatloaf
VEGETARIAN
poor man's chili, restaurant quality tomato soup, honey beans and spinach dinner, tamale pie, bean stew
VEGAN
African peanut soup, lentil and kale super food, portobello mushroom sandwiches, sweet and sour tofu, ratatouille
GLUTEN FREE/DAIRY FREE
coconut beef, cowboy beans, rotisserie chicken, old fashioned chicken noodle soup, Jamaican salmon
and
BUNDLE PACK
There are 70 individual recipes with instructions, and coordinating weekly grocery lists. Because you are on my mailing list (thank you for being here!) I have a one-time coupon code for you for 20% off of the Bundle Pack. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As always, all of the included recipes can be made completely free of gluten. If you are not gluten-free, simply
ignore my notes or file them away in case you ever need to cook for somebody with a gluten sensitivity. AWESOME BLOSSOM. Enjoy your long weekend!! Happy Slow Cooking!!
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