Chicken Cheddar Bacon Ranch Soup in the Slow Cooker

• Add chicken, broccoli, potatoes, carrots, onion, garlic, chicken stock, and spices into slow cooker.
• Cook on low for 6-7 hours or on high for 3-4
• Once chicken is tender, shred it with a fork.
• Mix together cream cheese, flour and milk.
• Stir milk mixture into slow cooker and add back the shredded chicken.
• Cook on high for another 3o minutes.
• When ready to serve, add cheese and bacon.
• Garnish each bowl of soup with green onions, additional bacon and shredded cheese.

Freezer to Slow Cooker Instructions:

• Chop carrots & onion.
• Cook bacon, let cool & crumble into pieces.
• Mix chicken, broccoli, carrots, onion, garlic, 3/4 of crumbled bacon and spices in a gallon size freezer bag (or use the original bag that the chicken came in).
• Place the rest of the bacon in a smaller sandwich sized freezer bag.  Put this bag inside of the larger bag.
• On cooking day, dice potatoes and add to the slow cooker.  (You can freeze them, as long as they're completely covered in liquid.  Otherwise they'll turn black and look inedible.)
• Pour contents of bag into slow cooker.
• Add chicken broth to slow cooker.
• Follow instructions 2-8 above.