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Use Crock Pot Cooking to Save Time (and Stress)
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Crock pots (or slow cookers, depending on where you're from) are an absolute blessing for the busy cook. When you can just throw some ingredients into your crock pot in the morning and come home from work to a hot, delicious, nutritious dinner, you know that you're utilizing one of the most beneficial kitchen gadgets ever.
Crock pot is a simple way to cook healthy foods that can help keep your family away from the siren song of fast food on busy days. Who has time to come home from work, help the kids with homework, tidy the house, wash the breakfast dishes, and make and eat dinner before rushing off to band practice or whatever other activity is happening that night?
When you use crock pot to balance out your weekly meals, you can save valuable evening time that you would have normally spent dinner. If you decide to have pot roast for dinner that night, you simply throw the roast and some raw vegetables into the crock pot, add some spices, and cover with water. Put on the lid, start the crock pot on the low setting, and come home nine hours later to a fully cooked and nutritious meal. doesn't get any easier than that.
Not Just for Dinner Anymore
Crock pot isn't just about dinner, though. Breakfast can join in the fun with an unconventional contribution from the crock pot. Have you ever thought of using the crock pot method for scrambled eggs? Simply throw a few ingredients into the crock pot and then relax on the sofa reading the Sunday paper for a few hours. By the time you're ready for brunch, you'll have
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i was once a vegan and it seemed to me that the effort to keep it up was huge
coupled with a serious loss of strength
any way a serious viscious cicle evolved
so im know a vegit n eat milk n eggs erm i luv pudding defeated me
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Thursday March 18, 2009
0:33 spin
360 cal
154.6 lbs
The weight is slowly coming off...just gotta stay away from the Sun Chips.
Wednesday Mar 17, 2009
1:30 Badminton
...resulting in a jammed ring finger (can barely type), two scraped elbows, a bruised hip, and barely being able to stand up.
03-18-10 Thursday
B - bean burrito, tea
L - a repeat of last night's dinner: three sisters stew and a salad
S - carrot-raisin muffin
D - yet to be decided on . . . .
03-17-10 Wednesday
B - small cup of coffee w/coconut milk, carrot-raisin muffin
L - pbj sammie on ww, carrot and celery sticks (my lunches aren't normally so boring and small - I guess I wasn't really hungry today as I found it very satisfying)
S - carrot-raisin muff
2 books
I'm alternating between two books right now:
"The Practice Of The Wild" by Gary Snyder
"The Story of Stuff" by Annie Leonard
Tuesday March 16, 2010
0:47 spin
501 cal
14.8 mi
155.4 lbs
My weekend of Thai food got the better of me. Darn that sticky rice.
vegan resident
we got a new resident at the nursing home where i workwho is a vegan so now my boss has to buy vegetarian foods like vegie burgers and stuff and im so happy so theres something i acn eat there besides just vegies all the time.
The new 'Choices' video
Dear all,
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I have just finished producing new video that I called Choices and i
I'm new here.
Hi! I'm new here as well as new at becoming vegetarian, possibly on my way to becoming vegan. I have always preferred to eat other things than meat, but cooked a lot of meat because of my husband. I recently educated myself on the meat industry in th
a crock pot full of hot scrambled eggs waiting for you.
How about using the crock pot method for a delicious dessert? Apple desserts do especially well with crock pot because their flavor increases as they're allowed to steep in their own juices. However, there are hundreds of other dessert recipes that take to crock pot extremely well.
Even side dishes can get in on the crock pot fun. Making refried beans is so simple in a crock pot that you'll wonder why you ever bothered to buy them in a can. They taste so much better when fresh that you'll never want to eat those canned beans again, anyway.
Easy and Healthy
Crock pot not only saves you time – it can actually make you healthier. By having a hot meal waiting for you at home, there's no need to order a greasy pizza at the end of an exhausting day. Crock pot also lets you cook without added fat for most meals, so you save on calories and fat grams while making a filling and delicious meal. There's no kitchen appliance that benefits your family more than a crock pot while delivering such a great return on your initial investment.
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