5 Slow cooker freezer meals in an hour

Spend one hour in the kitchen, and make five Crock-Pot freezer meals.

Using your Crock-Pot is a great way to save time and money in the kitchen. This set of five recipes includes sweet-and-sour pork, chicken tortilla soup, tangy pot roast, teriyaki chicken and chicken cacciatore. It will take you less than one hour in your kitchen, and you can prepare all these meals to be frozen and cooked in your Crock-Pot. Plus you have just one mess to clean up!

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Throw all these ingredients into a freezer bag, and on the day you want to prepare your meal, just add the contents of the bag to the Crock-Pot, and dinner is done! You might have to make a side dish, but that’s usually pretty easy.

• The fuller the slow cooker, the longer it will take to cook your food.
• According to the official Crock-Pot website, you can safely cook frozen meat in your slow cooker. If you still don’t like the idea, you can put the bag in the fridge the night before, and the meat should be defrosted by the morning.
• Never put the plastic bag in the slow cooker. Always dump out the contents to prepare your meal.
• When you freeze the bag, make sure the frozen lump (for lack of a better word) will easily fit into your cooker.
• One reader suggested putting the dinners into slow cooker liners and then into the freezer bags.

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