Tina Berry - Freezer Meals for Slow Cooker: Easy and Delicious Dump Dinner Recipes and Make Ahead Meals for Busy

Freezer Meals for Slow Cooker

Easy and Delicious Dump Dinner Recipes and Make Ahead Meals for Busy People

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A re you tired of spending hours preparing dinner? Wouldnt you like to dump all of the ingredients in a crockpot? With these simple, easy-to-make, recipes you can make delicious meals with little effort. These inexpensive, complete crockpot meals can be prepared ahead of time and frozen. When you are ready to cook them, defrost the freezer bag and then just dump the ingredients in the crockpot! These make ahead, frozen crockpot dinners will delight your family and save you a lot of cooking time!

In this book you will learn:

• tips and tricks for preparing frozen crockpot meals.
• quick recipes for frozen beef dinners made in the crockpot.
• recipes for frozen pork meals.
• simple recipes for preparing frozen chicken and turkey in the crockpot.

Finally, the Best Practices and Common Mistakes section gives you useful Dos and Donts to remember as you start preparing frozen crockpot meals.

With these tips and strategies, you can start making frozen meals ahead of time for your crockpot that are every bit as good as the traditional oven or stovetop versions!

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E veryone likes a great meal, but not everyone has time to prepare and cook for hours every day. By doing all of your ingredient preparation ahead of time, you can freeze your meal and cook it when you want it. Make a whole weeks worth of crockpot meals at one time. Freeze all of the meals and use them as you need them. Just defrost the freezer bags in the refrigerator and in the morning pop the ingredients in the slow cooker. The slow cooker does most of the work for you! When you get home you will be greeted by the aroma of a home-cooked meal that is ready to eat!

In this chapter, you will learn:

• Tips and strategies for making delicious frozen slow cooker meals.

T hese make ahead crockpot meals give a whole new meaning to easy meal preparation. By doing all of the ingredient preparation at one time, you can easily create 5 crockpot meals in 45 minutes. You then place the ingredients for each meal in a plastic freezer bag. Label the bags with the current date and the name of the meal. Stack the plastic freezer bags in your freezer and you are ready for a whole work week of super easy, tasty meals! When you are ready to cook one of the meals, defrost the freezer bag meal in your refrigerator the night before you want to cook it. The next morning, plug in your crockpot and dump the ingredients of the plastic bag into the slow cooker. All you have to do is select the temperature (low or high) and the number of hours specified in the recipe. Thats it! When you come home, you will be greeted by the wonderful aroma of a home cooked meal that you prepared! Your family will believe you spent all morning chopping and dicing!

T hese frozen slow cooker recipes are so easy to follow, but here are a few tips to help you:

• Dont worry about combining raw beef, pork or chicken with vegetables . Since the plastic bags will be frozen, no bacteria will grow. These bag meals are as safe as the frozen bag dinners you buy at the supermarket. The only difference is the price and having bragging rights for cooking dinner!
• Use an assembly line to prepare your ingredients. If 4 recipes require chopped peppers, for instance, calculate how much you need in total and do all of the chopping at one time. When you have cut up all of peppers you need, place the correct amount in each of the labeled meal bags. Then go on to prepare the next ingredient.
• Get family members involved, if possible. Children will love helping measure spices and other ingredients. Older teens can help chop vegetables or the proteins.
• Label the meals completely. Make sure you include the name of the dish and the date you have prepared the frozen bag. Also include the temperature you need to set the slow cooker on and how many hours it should cook.
• Push extra air out of the bag. To avoid freezer burn, remove as much air from the filled bag as possible before you seal and freeze it.
• If your freezer bag is not quite defrosted, dont worry. A slightly frozen freezer meal will quickly defrost as the crockpot heats up. Next time adjust the number of hours you defrost the bag in the refrigerator.
• Start with simple recipes that use similar ingredients. Similar dishes will reduce the amount of different items you need to chop or otherwise prepare.

E veryone loves delicious beef stews, soups, and roasts. Very few of us have the time for preparing elaborate meals. Rather than ordering take out, prepare your ingredients ahead of time and freeze, The night before you want to eat the dinner simply place the freezer bag in the refrigerator to defrost. The next morning, just put the meal bag contents in your slow cooker, choose the temperature and set the timer. When you get home, you will have a fully cooked meal ready to enjoy!

In this chapter, you will learn:

• Recipes for making beef dinners in the crockpot!

T his slow cooker recipe is delicious and tastes like you spent all day roasting and basting this dish. This meal brings comfort food to a new level of convenience! Serves 8.

Ingredients:

• 2 lbs. of boneless beef chuck shoulder roast (This less than tender cut is perfect for the crockpot!)
• 1 lbs. of carrots, peeled and cut into 1 pieces
• 3 tbsp. olive oil
• 2 tbsp. red wine vinegar (may substitute leftover red wine for more flavor)