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Who has time to prepare meals from scratch every day? If you’re like most people your busy life often gets in the way of preparing tasty and healthy dinners. Slowcooker recipes rescue you from the daily dinner scramble by allowing you to make delicious meals with little effort while being budget friendly to boot.

It’s not uncommon for today’s busy parents and professionals to have a mere 30 minutes between arriving home and dinner time. That doesn’t leave a lot of prep and cooking time for that night’s meal. Imagine how stress free it would be to come home and have the delicious aroma of a ready meal to greet you at the door. That’s what slowcooking does.

The beauty of preparing slowcooker recipes is they can be prepped in minutes ahead of time and left to roast slowly all day while you get on with your buys day. Your meal can be quickly prepped either in the morning or the night before and stored in the refrigerator, ready to be plugged in and slow cooked in an instant before you leave the house. Then, when it’s time for the family to sit down for dinner, your meal is ready to be served.

One of the best advantages of using a slowcooker is your ability to use cheaper cuts of meat and turn them into tender entrees with little effort. By comparison, meats that are grilled or fried need to be higher priced cuts in order to be tender or marinated for extended periods of time before cooking. With a slow cooker you can use less expensive cuts, skip the marinade (which adds to your meal’s cost) and let the slowcooker work its magic.

In a world of wastefulness we often don’t get around to revisiting those leftover food items until it’s time to throw them in the trash. Leftover meats and vegetables can be pulled together into slowcooker recipes that turn small, unused portions of food into delicious meals. Save leftover pot roast, steaks, or pork to create delicious stews at a later date. Leftover vegetables, if already cooked, can be added to reheat 15 to 20 minutes before serving to soups and stews. Even leftover cooked rice can be saved and used for stuffed peppers cooked in the slowcooker.

If you’re looking for ways to cut back on your grocery spending or the stress it takes to cook a meal from scratch every night try using slowcooker recipes instead. You’ll save your money and time for other things while still enjoying tasty meals with little effort.

Slowcooker Recipe for Beef Stew: 2 pounds fresh stewing beef or leftover roast, cut into 1-inch cubes 4 carrots 3 potatoes 1 garlic clove, minced 1 celery stalk, sliced 1 medium onion, chopped 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce 1 tsp. Paprika cup flour tsp. pepper tsp. salt 1 garlic clove, minced 1 cups beef broth 2 tbsp. HP sauce First place your meat into the slowcooker. Now mix together the salt, pepper and flour. Pour the dry mix over the meat and stir to coat thoroughly. Next add the remaining ingredients and Stir together well. Place the lid on your slowcooker and cook on low for 10 to 12 hours or, if rushed, 4 to 6 hours on high heat. Stir well before serving your stew.