Question for Crock Pot users.

AlisaS

Do you have tons of left-overs and do you waste a lot of food? I can totally see myself making stew or whatever and having left-overs in the fridge until I get around to throwing them out. This is the biggest reason I tend to stick to simpler meals, especially during the week.

Mrs.Telly

i have a small crockpot and i usually make soups/stews.  We eat dinner and then i make a couple lunches for DH and I and then I usually freeze two servings so we can have it if I don't feel like making lunch in a couple weeks.

future mrs. jimenez

can you recommend a crock pot recipe book?  i love using my crock pot but only have a couple of recipes that are easy and i like

kgb1411

future mrs. jimenez:

can you recommend a crock pot recipe book?  i love using my crock pot but only have a couple of recipes that are easy and i like

I asked this on 12-24 the other day, and some people shared recipies.  Mama Jan's chicken is really good.

https://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/28419570.aspx

I haven't made too many things in the crock pot, but if it's good, then we eat the leftovers for lunches or dinner again the next day. Today I'm making lentil soup, and we'll have it with chicken and salad tonight.  Tomorrow, we'll have it with hummos, veggies, and pita bread.

SoldiersGreenBean

We take leftovers for lunch.  More than that, though, we invested in a stand-up freezer and we freeze a lot of leftovers.  Since I'm the one that really doesn't enjoy cooking, and he's the one who's in the Army, I love having that freezer stash for when I just can't come up with anything.

I've also started doing the same with casseroles.  I make enough for two dinners and freeze one of them.

wheelenl

We just have a small crock pot so there's not that much leftover, but we just eat it for dinner another night that week.

OliveBerry

::lurking::

Check-out the crockpot lady blog - https://crockpot365.blogspot.com/

She has a book too, but the blog has more on it.

BlairWaldorf

wheelenl:

We just have a small crock pot so there's not that much leftover, but we just eat it for dinner another night that week.

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If for some reason we do have more leftovers than 1 night, I freeze them.  An easy meal for a later time.  win-win

ahava2005

You just freeze leftovers for later.  

AlisaS

Honestly, my freezer is like a black hole. I know, I need to be more organized.

yellowcar

There is a series of cookbooks that I like called "Fix It and Forget It".  They are all crockpot recipes, and there is one for lighter diets, one for entertaining, etc.  It's published locally, but I have seen them in Barnes and Noble.

We don't have a ton of waste, my freezer is pretty organized.  Our grocery budget is pretty tight right now, so we have gotten into the habit of constantly checking the freezer before we meal plan, or grocery shop.

DallasHorn

I try to go with the motto of cook once, eat twice, so I actually always try to have enough for more than 1 meal. Beyond that, I'll have my kids eat leftovers for lunch or we'll freeze it for a quick meal another time.

mrseggs

We usually have leftovers, but I change them up a bit. For example, if I put a beef or pork roast in the slow cooker, a couple nights late we might have BBQ beef/pork pizza or on a bun, fajitas, or beef/pork & noodles. I put soup/stew in the crock pot when I know we'll be having my parents or DH's dad out and I can send the leftovers home with them.

shouldbworkin

I usually freeze whatever is leftover after we have 1 meal b/c we don't usually like to eat it for the rest of the week. 

gniddew

future mrs. jimenez:

can you recommend a crock pot recipe book?  i love using my crock pot but only have a couple of recipes that are easy and i like

Fix it and Forget it is a great CP book.

I cook a pot on Sunday and we have it for dinner on Monday and Wednesday.  That's two nights of the week I don't have to think about dinner.

Daisy22

Not really. Sometimes we have left over chili or stew but someone will eat it for lunch the next day. Over the years I've learned how much we need for one meal with my crockpot recipes. Like my stew recipe I usually cut in half for just the two of us. I love my crockpot and it died on my the other week. I"m lost without one but I haven't had time to get antoher one.