October 18, 2024

Happy Friday, Slow Cookerers!!

I hope you are having a great day.

Because of the wonky economy right now, I've been getting A LOT of emails about how to save money and trim grocery bills.

Everything is expensive right now. I wish it wasn't, but it is.

Cooking at home will ALWAYS be less than restaurants or take out --

and it's healthier because you know what's going into the food.

If you are a crockpotter, you're a meal planner.

So give yourself a pat on the back and collect some gold stars!! :-)
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I want to share some resources to help you:

First off, this is an article on Meal Planning for Normal People .

here is a round-up of "Clean Out the Pantry Meals"

and here is a very involved article on Saving Money by Slow Cooking.

I suggest saving these links by bookmarking so you can refer to them whenever you need to.

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  is $5.

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

Vietnamese roasted chicken, falafel, Thai beef, Hawaiian ribs, Buffalo wing soup