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Slow Cooker Breakfast Casserole

February 26, 2013 by

I actually didn’t make this casserole for breakfast, but for brunch after church.  It’s a perfect after church meal, because it’s easy to throw together while you’re trying to rush everyone out of the house.  And the cook time is perfect to have it ready when you get back.

I used potatoes with onions and peppers in them to add plenty of flavor without adding a chopping step.  This one is really just “assembly only”.  Important when you’re trying not to be the last family to slip into the sanctuary.

Here’s what you’ll need:   [Read more...]

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Slow Cooker and Traditional Weekly Meal Plans for the week of Feb. 24

February 24, 2013 by

This post has the sneak peek at this week’s menu.  I’ve listed the main dishes below for the All Slow Cooker and Traditional versions of the Weekly Plans.  If you subscribe to the service, you’ll get side dish suggestions and the complete grocery list ready to print.

I’m super excited about an addition to the plans that’s coming next week.  You’re going to love it, especially if you’re cooking for just 2-4 people.  I tell you all about it next week.

Want to get the Weekly Meal Plans and Grocery List sent to your inbox?  Get all the info by clicking here.

By subscribing to the Weekly Meal Plans you’ll get:

  • 2 Meal Plans each week – All Slow Cooker and Traditional
  • 6 dinners and 1 dessert for each
  • Side dish suggestions
  • Complete grocery list for each plan
  • Printable recipes
  • Cooking tips and timing tricks
  • Delivered to your inbox each week for just $4 per month
Receive your first set of Weekly Meal Plans the same day you sign up!

All Slow Cooker Plan

Salsa Verde Steak

Traditional Plan

Zesty Chicken with Couscous in the Slow Cooker

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Traditional and All Slow Cooker Weekly Meal Plans – Week of Feb. 18

February 17, 2013 by

On Friday, I printed off the grocery list for the Traditional Plan for this week.  Less than two hours later, I had run to the bank, the pharmacy and shopped for all the groceries.  I love not having to labor of meal planning and list making!

And we were all set for a quick, fun meal on Friday night of Gina’s Club Sandwiches.  Perfect for family game night!

If you’d like to skip the planning and get right to the shopping, subscribe to the Weekly Meal Plans and have the menus and grocery sent to your inbox each week.  At just $4 per month, it’s the best deal out there for saving time.  Saving at least an hour each week in planning time, plus having quick-to-fix dinners planned out for such a small price is a no-brainer!  I don’t know any other way to buy myself an hour for just $1.

Scroll down to see the main dishes for each menu below.  If you sign up to get the Meal Plans delivered to you, you’ll also receive side dish suggestions and recipes.  And, of course, the complete grocery list for each plan and printable recipes.

Want to get the Weekly Meal Plans and Grocery List sent to your inbox?  Get all the info by clicking here.

By subscribing to the Weekly Meal Plans you’ll get:

  • 2 Meal Plans each week – All Slow Cooker and Traditional
  • 6 dinners and 1 dessert for each
  • Side dish suggestions
  • Complete grocery list for each plan
  • Printable recipes
  • Cooking tips and timing tricks
  • Delivered to your inbox each week for just $4 per month
Receive your first set of Weekly Meal Plans the same day you sign up!

All Slow Cooker

Brown Sugar Chicken and Sweet Potatoes
Pulled Pork on sandwiches
Chicken Fiesta with Black Beans
Italian Chicken and Tomatoes
Pumpkin Black Bean Chicken Chili
Cube Steaks with Gravy
Chocolate Chip Pecan Banana Bars

Traditional

Cube Steaks with Gravy in the Slow Cooker
Fish Tacos with Chipotle Dressing
Gina’s Club Sandwiches
Easy Jambalaya
Ham and Swiss Scalloped Potatoes
Pesto and Crushed Tomato Shells
Chocolate Chip Pecan Banana Bars

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Freezer Cooking – Ground Beef in the Crock Pot

February 12, 2013 by

One thing I like to do to help cut down on meal prep time is have pre-cooked meats in the freezer. I will usually buy chicken, ground turkey, and ground beef in bulk. I often use my crock pot to cook my chicken, that I will shred and freeze for use in recipes/casseroles/soup. However, I have always cooked my ground beef and turkey on the stove top, usually only a pound or two at a time. It never occurred to me that I could use my slow cooker, until I saw it on Pinterest! (Pin source) One of the many reasons I am addicted to pinning :-)

This is not a recipe per se, just a shortcut for cooking in bulk.  The above picture is 3 lbs of 90/10 lean ground beef, with seasonings (salt, pepper, McCormick Grill Mates Hamburger Seasoning, and dried onion) and about half of a large chopped onion.  You could easily add taco seasoning, Italian seasonings, or leave it plain.  My crock pot could have held much more ground beef too, but this is what I had on hand.  I cooked this on high for 4 hours (this may vary depending on your cooker and the amount of beef used, and if it was fresh or frozen), giving it a stir once an hour.  You may not need to stir it that often, but it will need to be stirred on occasion and the clumps broken up.  After the meat was cooked, I drained the meat (which was pretty lean and didn’t produce a lot of grease) and allowed it too cool.  Then I divided it into 3 equal amounts (since I used 3 lbs.) and placed it in freezer bags.  SO much simpler than standing over a stove top!

I hope you find this little tip as helpful as I did.  {Looking for ideas to use all that ground beef?  Check out Eat at Home Ingredient Spotlight: Ground Beef!}

KimM is a contributing writer for Eat at Home. See more from her at her blog Makin’ it Mo’Betta, and follow along on Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter!

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Easy Crockpot Beef Fajitas

February 5, 2013 by

One of the most popular recipes on my site right now is one of the newest – Easy Crockpot Chicken Fajitas by EaH writer, Rachael.

I’ve been wondering about a beef version and some of you have had that thought too.  So I decided to give it a try.  This could not be easier and it’s really delicious too.  The house smelled fantastic the whole time it cooked.

I used beef cut for Milanesa, which I found in Walmart.  It’s top round that’s been cut extra thin.  You could use other cuts of beef too, but I really liked this very thin beef for this dish.  I also used a packet of fajita seasoning instead of taco seasoning.

Here’s what you’ll need:   [Read more...]

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Weekly Meal Plans – All Slow Cooker & Traditional – February 3

February 3, 2013 by

Did you know that Eat at Home Weekly Meal Plans include tips for freezing extras for future meals and even occasional repurposed leftovers?

Scroll down to see the main dishes for each menu below.  If you sign up to get the Meal Plans delivered to you, you’ll also receive side dish suggestions and recipes.  And, of course, the complete grocery list for each plan and printable recipes.

Want to get the Weekly Meal Plans and Grocery List sent to your inbox?  Get all the info by clicking here.

By subscribing to the Weekly Meal Plans you’ll get:

  • 2 Meal Plans each week – All Slow Cooker and Traditional
  • 6 dinners and 1 dessert for each
  • Side dish suggestions
  • Complete grocery list for each plan
  • Printable recipes
  • Cooking tips and timing tricks
  • Delivered to your inbox each week for just $4 per month
Receive your first set of Weekly Meal Plans the same day you sign up!

All Slow Cooker Plan

Sweet and Sour Meatballs
Easy Pepper Steak
Garlic Chicken with More GarlicHamburger Vegetable Soup
Crockpot Fajitas
Chicken Shwarma
Pear Tart with Cream Cheese Icing

Traditional Plan

Zesty Chicken with Couscous in the Slow Cooker
Italian Chicken and Rice Casserole
Tony’s Tilapia
South of the Border Skillet
Tortellini Meatball Soup
Scrambled Egg-wiches
Peach Crisp in the Slow Cooker

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Weekly Meal Plans – All Slow Cooker and Traditional – January 27

January 27, 2013 by

I printed the Traditional Meal Plan for myself this week and spent $105.78 shopping the list at Walmart.  Of course, I did add our breakfast and lunch items to the list, which raised the cost.  (I also bought new pj’s for my daughter, some candles and yarn for a new scarf.  None of that is included in the $105 cost.  Please tell me I’m not the only one to get distracted in Walmart and add things to the cart that aren’t on the list.)

I also have extras of a few of the items.  For instance, the list calls for 1 pound of ground beef but I bought 2 pounds.  It’s just as easy to brown two pounds and then I have some in the freezer for another meal.

I’m also liking being able to move between the All Slow Cooker plan and the Traditional plan, depending on what we’re in the mood for and how busy the week looks.

You can see the main dishes for each menu below.  If you sign up to get the Meal Plans delivered to you, you’ll also receive side dish suggestions and recipes.  And, of course, the complete grocery list for each plan and printable recipes.

Want to get the Weekly Meal Plans sent to your inbox?  Get all the info by clicking here.

By subscribing to the Weekly Meal Plans you’ll get:

  • 2 Meal Plans each week – All Slow Cooker and Traditional
  • 6 dinners and 1 dessert for each
  • Side dish suggestions
  • Complete grocery list for each plan
  • Printable recipes
  • Cooking tips and timing tricks
  • Delivered to your inbox each week for just $4 per month
Receive your first set of Weekly Meal Plans the same day you sign up!
All Slow Cooker Meal Plan – Week of January 27
Traditional Meal Plan – Week of January 27
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Weekly Meal Plans – All Slow Cooker and Traditional – January 13

January 13, 2013 by

I love both of the menus this week.  There are some really fast dinners on the Traditional Meal Plan (like 15-20 minutes and it’s on the table).

And on the All Slow Cooker Meal Plan you’ll have a chance to stock your freezer with an extra meal or two.  I love cook-once-eat-twice!

You can see the main dishes for each menu below.  If you sign up to get the Meal Plans delivered to you, you’ll also receive side dish suggestions and recipes.  And, of course, the complete grocery list for each plan and printable recipes.

Want to get the Weekly Meal Plans sent to your inbox?  Get all the info by clicking here.

By subscribing to the Weekly Meal Plans you’ll get:

  • 2 Meal Plans each week – All Slow Cooker and Traditional
  • 6 dinners and 1 dessert for each
  • Side dish suggestions
  • Complete grocery list for each plan
  • Printable recipes
  • Cooking tips and timing tricks
  • Delivered to your inbox each week for just $4 per month
Receive your first set of Weekly Meal Plans the same day you sign up!

All Slow Cooker Meal Plan for Week of January 13

 

Traditional Meal Plan for Week of January 13

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Slow Cooker Meatballs and Spaghetti Sauce

January 11, 2013 by

My husband grew up in a traditional Italian family, which meant big pots of meatballs and gravy simmering on the stove every Sunday. Yes, gravy – that’s what Italians in the New Jersey area call red pasta sauce!

I have his grandmother’s recipes, but I rarely make them because I don’t have the time. These quick and easy meatballs simmer all day in the slow cooker instead of the stove, which makes them much better for a busy lifestyle. The smell of them simmering all day in the slow cooker smells almost as good as having a pot of gravy on the stove all day!

This makes very tender meatballs in a thick sauce. They’re perfect over pasta or on long rolls for meatball subs. If you want a thinner sauce, mix in some jarred tomato sauce fifteen minutes before serving.

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Slow Cooker Meatballs

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. lean ground beef
  • 1 egg
  • ½ large onion, shredded
  • 1/3 c. plain breadcrumbs
  • 28 oz. can crushed tomatoes with basil, garlic and oregano
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • ¼ c. fresh basil, chopped
  • ¼ c. parmesan cheese, shredded, plus more for serving
  • Salt and pepper, to taste

Instructions

  1. In a medium bowl, mix together the ground beef, egg, shredded onion and breadcrumbs. Roll ground beef mixture into 1-1 ½ inch balls. Set aside.
  2. In another bowl, mix together the crushed tomatoes, garlic, basil and parmesan cheese.
  3. Spread ½ cup of the tomato sauce mixture in the bottom of your slow cooker. Place the meatballs on top, and then cover with remaining sauce.
  4. Cook on low for 8 hours.
  5. Serve over pasta or on long rolls. Top with additional parmesan cheese, if desired.
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Kate is a home cook living and working in New Jersey. In addition to sharing recipes with Eat at Home readers, she blogs her cooking adventures at Kate’s Recipe Box. When she’s not in the kitchen, you can find her reading or tending to her garden.

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All Slow Cooker and Traditional Weekly Meal Plans – January 6

January 6, 2013 by

The new Weekly Meal Plans with grocery lists will be going out on Monday.  Subscribers to the plans get both the Traditional and the All Slow Cooker versions emailed to them each week.

Want to get the Weekly Meal Plans sent to your inbox?  Get all the info by clicking here.

By subscribing to the Weekly Meal Plans you’ll get:

  • 2 Meal Plans each week – All Slow Cooker and Traditional
  • 6 dinners and 1 dessert for each
  • Side dish suggestions
  • Complete grocery list for each plan
  • Printable recipes
  • Cooking tips and timing tricks
  • Delivered to your inbox each week for just $4 per month

I shopped with the All Slow Cooker list yesterday.  I love printing the list and knowing exactly what I need to buy.  And I love filling the crockpot in the morning and knowing that dinner is taken care of, no matter how crazy the day gets.

Here’s a sneak peek at the meals on each menu for this week.  Subscribers will also get side dish suggestions, along with cooking tips.

All Slow Cooker Meal Plan

Traditional Meal Plan

 

 

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