**I received a complementary copy of this cookbook to facilitate this review. All opinions are 100% my own.** You all know by now that I love, love, love my slow cooker. Most weeks I use it 2 or 3 times so dinner is ready when we get home from work and I don’t have to…
Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken Taco Bowls
This is another emeals slow cooker recipe that my family absolutely loved! As you’ve probably realized by now, we’re huge fans of Mexican foods and love making shredded chicken in the slow cooker. And I’ve made no secret of the fact that I am a lazy cook. Eating at home is important to me but…
9 Super Easy Slow Cooker Meals
I love the convenience of using my slow cooker. With just a little pre-planning for dinner, you can just throw a few ingredients in the slow cooker in the morning and come home to dinner being ready to serve. Just because I blog about food doesn’t mean I like to spend hours in the kitchen…
Crock Pot Lentil Sweet Potato Soup
One of my favorite things to make in the crock pot is soup. It’s one of the most budget-friendly meals, it’s super easy to make, and it makes a ton of food, plenty for leftovers. What could be better than that, right? I was a little hesitant about this crock pot lentil sweet potato soup…
Orange Chicken
This was my first attempt with a freezer meal. I’ll talk more about the entire freezer meal preparation process when I finish all the recipes but the short version is that it seemed like a lot of effort to bag up 11 meals at once over a couple of hours but I haven’t had to…
Spicy Vegetarian Bean Soup
Today was a crock pot soup kind of day. If you don’t already know what that means, it means that I’m too lazy to actually cook a meal. But we’re going to call this being efficient, ok? Since Mr. Real Food loves all things spicy, I decided to throw together some spicy vegetarian bean soup….
Recipe of the Week: Slow Cooker Red Beans and Rice
This week’s recipe is one of my family’s favorite meals. It is made with all real food ingredients, simple to make, requires little actual hands on prep time, and is loaded with valuable nutrients! A 1/3 cup serving of red beans provides a full 10g of fiber and has very little fat. This is the…