Make 8 dinners in just one hour! What is even better than a crockpot meal is a freezer crockpot meal. All the thinking and prepping is already done. I love to go to my freezer, pick out a meal, plop it in my slow cooker and turn it on. This routine is especially appreciated on busy mornings or for busy working parents that won’t get home until 6 pm but still want a home cooked meal.
You may remember when I made 20 crockpot freezer meals in 3 hours back in July. It was a lifesaver for those summer days when I didn’t feel like making dinner. I loved the idea so much that I decided to do it again, only on a smaller scale. One hour is easily doable for most people. During baby’s nap time or on a long lunch break you can prep and freeze 8 dinners for the upcoming busy days.
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| Caramel Chicken is sweet and savory and is perfect served over hot rice. |
What’s even better, is that these meals are all fairly healthy (but still super yummy, don’t worry). I had a lot of the items for the recipes on hand and only had to spend a half hour grocery shopping for everything else.
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| Serve the Chipotle Shredded Pork on a salad, sandwiches or in tacos! |
There are 4 recipes and each one is made 2 times…so you’ll end up with 8 meals that will fit nicely into your freezer. Each recipe serves about 4-6 people. If you have a large family you may want to put 2 duplicate freezer meals into a large slow cooker. That way you’ll have enough for 8 people. I would suggest eating these meals within 3 months for best results.
The 4 recipes that are included are:
- Chipotle Shredded Pork (if you don’t eat pork you can make this with chicken instead)
- Caramel Chicken
- White Chicken Chili
- Turkey Lentil Chili
If you’d like the instructions on how to put these freezer meals together (FOR FREE) just go here (or click the picture below) Print it off and get going. I know you’re going to love it!
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I’m disabled and my aide won’t cook for my hubby, only me so I had to get creative. Saw this and looked thru the ones that sounded good for us. He works10-12 hour shifts ,4 on 2 off. When he’s home he’s asleep. We’re no spring chicken’s …So I started with 5 and it was great. Then I did 10, and now I’m going for 20. It’s been so much easier. Make the list of meals, see what I have here,have delivered what I need. Prep,put ingredients into bags. I double bag so I can have meal name and what I need to do ( instructions and reuse the outer bags,) freeze and tada!!! Next I’m going to do some oven meals !!!! Sometimes we have leftovers some not . I’m now ok with the aide not cooking. Each day I pick a bag and in it goes!!! Good luck cookers.
This is great to hear! I’m so happy this was helpful to you.
do you have to thaw the freezer bag before plopping into the slow cooker? I’m confused on that part. Other websites say you need to.
I don’t. But yes some others do. If you remember to put in the fridge to thaw the day before then it will be less time to cook.
Oh, and I've made your caramel chicken before. It's AMAZING!!!
LOVE this, Karen! I'm a huge fan of freezer crockpot meals, but finding healthy AND fast options to keep things interesting can be hard. Pinning this and I'll be referring to it again soon!!!
Hope you like it! Thanks, Blair 🙂
I so need to give making freezer meals a try. Thanks for this. An hour is definitely doable.
Totally, right?
Susan, you'll love it! They make life so much easier. 🙂
wow am going to do the freezer recipes tomorrow yum thanks keep the recipes coming love my slow cooker