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Once a Week Cooking – Week 2 – From Freezer to Crockpot

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Having a large family, one of my main goals in order for my week to go smoothly is to plan my meals ahead….and to make them easy for me to complete without a lot of time and effort!  I need to work on the rest of my weekly goals, but for now, meal planning it is!!

That is why I came up with a weekly meal plan where I can get it all mostly ready at once…freezing ingredients together.  The night before, I can just toss it in the fridge to thaw and then first thing in the morning, it goes into the crockpot for a delicious meal at supper!  Here’s what we’ll be eating, almost completely using crockpot meals.  If you missed Week one, you should see that here. 

 

Slow Cooker Pizza
Chicken Pot Pie
Pasta Fagiola
Meat Loaf
French Stew
Chicken & Dumplings

 

 

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  2. Sidetracked Sarah says

    Oh thank you for pointing that out Susan. I fixed it! I'm so glad this is helpful to you. I want to do another plan. You're right though, it shouldn't take much more time than one whole meal. Maybe an hour or so. I hope that you enjoy it!

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  3. Susan says

    Wow I love this. I pinterested it and I am going to the grocer today and possibly assembling this afternoon. I wonder how long does the assembly take? It doesn't seem like it would take much longer than the time to prepare one meal…yeah! BTW Somehow part of your shopping list got into the preparation directions… it could just be my computer. I am so technologically challenged! This cooking plan will free up some time to remedy that!

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  4. Ginger says

    Love this! 🙂 You were one of the top 5 viewed links at my {wow me} wednesday party last week. Thank YOU so much for sharing! Featuring YOU tonight over on my blog. Feel free to grab a featured button if you'd like. :)Ginger @ gingersnapcrafts.comhttps://www.gingersnapcrafts.com/2011/10/wow-me-wednesday-22.html

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  6. Nicole says

    Your menu sounds good! Love the look of your blog. Good luck on completing your menu goal this week! Nicole from saveliveeatlove.com

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  8. K-Koira says

    Hi, I'm stopping by from the Menu Planning Monday blog hop to check out your recipes and say hi! I LOVE using my crockpot to have a hot meal ready without having to worry about it.

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    This makes my life so much easier. I'm a busy work at home/stay at home mom, wife, business woman and I feel like dinner is always the thing I just never get time to do. We have done like 15 of the crockpot recipes from Sarah and they are all very yummy. They get a thumbs up from my husband and kids every time. And there is always enough for my husband to take the left overs at least 2x per recipe. I have a family of 5, 2 adults, 21, 13, 16. So it makes plenty. Thank you Sarah.

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