January 5, 2016 I hope you enjoyed your New Year festivities. I have decided that for me, today marks the official start to 2016 because the kids are back at school. I love having my kids home. I sometimes feel like all their "best" hours and behavior is given to the school and I get the crappy
leftovers. So it was great to have them home, and all mine for a few weeks.
That said....
The house is a disaster, I still have a tree up, and there are crumbs everywhere.
It's alarming how much food three kids can go through in three weeks. They don't usually eat hourly, right? So why are they constantly scavenging through the cabinets and fridge at home?
So today I hit Safeway and get restocked for this upcoming week or two. My baby turns six tomorrow and has requested vanilla cake with cream
cheese frosting for dinner.
Yeah.
She must not remember her mom is a meanie and is going to make her eat real food first.
:-)
If you are like me and are ready to get back to
some sort of New Normal for 2016, you might want to check out my slow cooker meal plans. It's an awesome (and weirdly zenful) feeling to know that you have all the food in the house for a week's worth of meals.
These are the plans that I have available:
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 $2.49, which is about 50 cents a recipe. 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 the bundle pack has all 14 meal plans for a discounted price. There are 70 individual recipes with instructions, and coordinating weekly grocery lists, for $24.99, which works out to about 37 cents a
recipe.
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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.
Have a wonderful day, week, month, and all of 2016.
Happy Slow Cooking!!
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