Sidetracked Sarah

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Hey there!

I’m Sarah.  I’m a super busy, stay at home, work from home, homeschooling mom of 7 children.  Wow, that’s a mouthful, isn’t it?  

I’ve been married to my amazing husband Ryan for 20+ years and he’s one of the reasons that this blog has gotten any legs of it’s own. Back when I was a young mom, in my 20’s, my husband began complaining when I announced my plan to serve spaghetti again for the bazillionth time.  He wasn’t really one to complain about his food too much, so I took notice and realized, that every time I didn’t know what I was going to cook, it was spaghetti.  Again.

I decided that if I was ever going to get out of that spaghetti rut, I’d have to use my crockpot, because I’d never remember to get dinner started in time if I didn’t use that.  (Yeah, I’m a little distractable.)

 

Ryan and I have 7 kids. 2 of them are adults and in college already.  Sometimes I feel like life is flying by as they get older and older by the minute.

Not only am I their mom, I’m also their teacher (we homeschool), friend, cook, chauffeur, and house cleaner (but maybe I should hire one?!)!  They keep me B U S Y!

I am so thankful that God has given me the opportunity to stay at home with my children so that I don’t have to miss a thing!

I’m a somewhat disorganized, fly by the seat of my pants type of gal.   I get sidetracked easily (thus the name) but love sharing about our crazy and chaotic life and all of the food that we eat on a regular basis.

Our family loves to camp, travel, eat and play A LOT.  When we’re not traveling far away, you’ll find us at our local lake, basking in the sunshine and camping in our camper only a few miles from home.    Sometimes we wish there was more time to explore everything, but as time goes by, we’ll continue exploring all that we can.  We may even share bits and pieces of our journey here with you.

Meet our family on one of our recent trips:

On this site, you’ll find lots of easy recipes.  I definitely lean toward doing a lot of slow cooker and Instant Pot recipes.  (I’m one of those moms who likes to just toss dinner in the pot and have it magically ready by the end of the day.)  In fact, my site became known for my easy Crockpot Meals after I published a bunch of Freezer to Slow Cooker Recipes.

Because of the popularity of my Crockpot Freezer Meals, lots of my email subscribers started requesting a monthly meal plan.  Finally, we were able to provide them with just that and launched our regular and low carb Freezer to Slow Cooker Meal Plan Subscription.  We would love to have YOU join us any time you need to get out of your dinner rut.

Some other posts you won’t want to miss:

My recipes & tips have been featured on USAToday.com, Credit.com, MoneySavingMom.com, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Yahoo Finance, Market Watch, Clark.com and many more amazing sites!  

Please feel free to leave me comments or send me an email.  I love to interact with my readers!  Pull up a chair and stick around a while.  You can also interact with me on Facebook , Instagram and Pinterest.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, feel free to email me at sidetrackedsarah (at) gmail (dot) com.  I’d love to hear from you!

 

 

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Testimonials

  • Amorette DavisUser of the Free Freezer to Slow Cooker One Week Menu

    Thank you so much! As a special needs mommy these recipes have helped us so much.   I often am very busy with being a nurse for our child that I don't have time for making sure we get meals.  This allows me to do all my prep on the weekends, while my husband is home to help, and to cook during the week.  So grateful!

  • Linda SearsOwner of Freezer to Slow Cooker Menus

    Sarah’s Freezer to Slow Cooker ebooks have been a fantastic addition to my meal plans.  They make meal planning easy and my family happy. I love the way each recipe is laid out, with a shopping list and ingredient prep list, along with cooking instructions. Sarah’s done all the hard work for me!  The recipes have used have all been delicious and easily adaptable to my family’s taste and the number of people I’m serving.

  • FranOwner of Freezer to Slow Cooker Ebooks
     I purchased all of your freezer to slow cooker ebooks a month or so ago and I'm in love with this way of cooking.  I now have taken all 10 weeks of recipes and written them of my menu planner and then I repeated the 10 weeks and will continue to do so throughout the year.  My family of 5 adults and 1 child enjoy the meals that you have planned and I have cooked and I'm excited that the next time when that meal comes due up in the rotation I won't have to purchase anything but just pull it from the freezer.  Thank you so much
           A Happy Slow Cooker User
  • rayzn2angelsfrom Freezer to Slow Cooker Series

    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.

  • Dawn S.Buyer of Freezer to Slow Cooker Ebook Series
    I am a 59-year-old wife and mother of two grown children.  I love your idea of fixing a lot of meals ahead of time and then pulling one out, put it in the crockpot, and you have dinner when you get home.  I hate feeling rushed when I cook so Monday - Friday I use those crockpot meals and make enough that we have lunch the next day.  I take Sunday afternoon, fix up what I need for the week (I don't have a lot of freezer space so I do a week's worth at a time) and I'm done with it!  Saturdays I like to try new recipes from some of my cookbooks which I am finding I can freeze as well!  So you have shown me a whole new way to organize my time and still put a healthy meal on the table.  Thanks so much and I look forward to future blogs.

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