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Slow Cooker Peach Glazed Pork Roast

Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 21:00:00 +0000

So I happened upon some $1.49/lb pork roast recently. I bought 2 roasts last month…one to use that week I bought them and another for the freezer. I got to talking to the butcher at the store while she was weighing and packaging up the roasts. I told her that I was surprised at the price, as I hadn’t seen that great of a price in a long while. She, too, was surprised when she saw it come across her desk…and again when the sale went live. She told me that this price was the “at cost” price…and then I said that I was certainly glad to take some of these roasts off her hands “at cost.”

I decided to do a peach glaze on the pork roast…as I still had some peach preserves in my fridge from the Ginger-Peach Glazed Tilapia. I served it with some frozen green beans and brown rice. Here’s the recipe for ya…hope you enjoy it!

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Slow Cooker Peach Glazed Pork Roast

Yield – 4 servings

Preparation Time – 5 minutes

Cooking Time – 8 hours in slow cooker

Ingredients

1.68 lb. pork shoulder roast ($2.50)

About 1/2 tsp minced onion ($.05)

Salt and pepper

1/2 cup peach preserves ($1.30)

1 tsp ground ginger ($.05)

1 1/2 cups brown rice, cooked ($.40)

16 oz. frozen green beans, or other veggie ($1)

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Directions

Place the roast in the base of the slow cooker, season with minced onion, salt and pepper. Add about 1/2 cup of water around the roast. (I do this to make the atmosphere inside the slow cooker nice and moist while the pork cooks.)

In a small bowl, whisk together the peach preserves and ginger. Spread over top of the pork roast.

Set the slow cooker on low and cook for 8 hours.

Prepare the brown rice and green beans as directed.

Serve Slow Cooker Peach Glazed Pork Roast with brown rice and green beans, or other favorite sides.

Cost $5.30

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Jenn K — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:00:48 +0000

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Slow Cooker Cilantro-Lime Shredded Chicken

Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:00:00 +0000

We love shredded chicken…I will often make large batches of it and freeze in meal size portions. This makes “Mexican StackEs,” chicken tacos and other favorite chicken meals all that much faster to get on the table. (More on how to cook a whole chicken.)

For this chicken, I used what I had on hand in the freezer. I dropped a package of chicken breasts and a package of chicken thighs into the slow cooker…a good mix of white and dark meat! Along with some lime juice, olive oil and big hunks of cilantro and bam…

(Check out the 6 second video on Vine below. Slow cooker with oil/juice/onion. Cilantro, garlic. Chicken thawing. Taco shells awaiting their filling!)

Tonight’s Dinner. Slow Cooker Cilantro-Lime Chicken Tacos. #food #yum #busyday #slowcookersavesmysanity vine.co/v/bXala0d2bht

— Erin Chase (@5dollardinners) February 27, 2013

Seriously y’all…the cilantro flavor totally infused into the chicken as it cooked all day. Perfect for using in your favorite Mexican chicken dish.

(Also, I should add that here in TX you can get large bunches of cilantro for just $.29!)

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Slow Cooker Cilantro-Lime Shredded Chicken

Yield – 4 servings

Preparation Time – 5 minutes

Cooking Time – 8 hours in the slow cooker

Ingredients

1 Tbsp olive oil ($.05)

3 limes, juiced ($1)

1 onion, chopped ($.20)

1 lb. chicken breast ($1.99)

1 lb. chicken thighs ($1.99)

Couple garlic cloves, crushed ($.15)

1/2 bunch cilantro ($.15)

1/2 tsp ground cumin ($.03)

Salt and pepper

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Directions

Put all the ingredients in the slow cooker. Cook on low for 8 hours.

Once cooking is complete, use 2 forks to pull the chicken apart. Pull out any long cilantro stems, if necessary.

Serve Cilantro-Lime Shredded Chicken in favorite chicken recipes.

(Portion out chicken into meal size portions and place in plastic freezer baggies and freeze for future use.)

Cost $5.56 for 3-4 meals worth of shredded chicken

Tricia’s Slow Cooker Sloppy Chicken Recipe

Tricia H — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:00:19 +0000

I love those recipes that don’t require much thought.

This is a simple and easy twist on my Slow Cooker Barbecue Chicken. Just put your chicken in the slow cooker, add the sloppy sauce and cook.

It’s a crowd-pleasing meal with little effort.

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Slow Cooker Sloppy Chicken

Adapted from Slow Cooker Barbecue Chicken

Yield – 8 servings

Preparation Time – 5 minutes

Cooking Time – 4-6 hours

Ingredients

2 lbs chicken breasts or tenderloins

28.5 oz can of sloppy joe sauce

hamburger buns, for serving

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Directions

Place a small amount of sloppy joe sauce in the bottom of the slow cooker.

Add chicken.

Pour remaining sauce over chicken. (Feel free to adjust chicken and sauce amounts according to your family size and your tastes).

Cook on low 4-6 hours.

Slow Cooker Saucy Chicken and Rice

Jenn K — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:00:51 +0000

Thanks so much to Melissa Earl from Living a Frugal Life for sharing this great recipe with us. I’m still on “leave,” enjoying my time with new baby and settling into life as a family of 6. I’m so grateful for the help and support of my fellow bloggers during this time! ~Erin

Crock pot recipes are great ways to stretch your budget but still be able to have a great tasting meal. And as a bonus you get to save tons of time and make it seem like you spent long hours in the kitchen.

This chicken recipe is especially nice because it is very versatile and you can make a large batch and freeze 1/2 of it so you can have 2 meals out of 1!

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Slow Cooker Saucy Chicken and Rice

Preparation Time – 5 minutes

Cooking Time – 4.5 – 5.5 hours

Ingredients

3 Cups Sliced Carrots

2 Cups Chopped Onions

6 Chicken Breasts, halved

2 cans of Cream of Chicken, mushroom or celery soup

1 Envelope Onion Soup Mix

1 tsp. Dried Thyme

1 tsp. Pepper

1/2 Tsp. Dried Tarragon

2 TBS Corn Starch

1 can (15oz) of Chicken Broth

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Directions

In a bowl combine Cream Soup Cans, Onion Soup Mix, Dried Thyme, Pepper, and Dried Tarragon in a large bowl.

Add carrots and onions to the bowl and mix.

Put chicken into slow cooker and pour mixture over the top. Use a rubber scraper to get it all off the sides and into the slow cooker.

Let mixture and chicken cook for 4-5 hours on high.

Mix corn starch into chicken broth and stir it into slow cooker mixture.

Cover back up and cook for 30 min.

Serve over rice.

Melissa is the mother of 4 littles 6 and under. She loves to have good, healthy food for her family. She blogs at Living a Frugal Life about frugal recipes, frugal living, and having balanced contentment in your life. Strike up a conversation with her on Living a Frugal Life on facebook and share your favorite recipes too!

Alea’s Slow Cooker Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

Alea — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:00:41 +0000

{Repin It!}

My kids and I love sweet potatoes, but my husband isn’t as fond of them as we are, so I am always trying new ways of serving sweet potatoes to make them more appealing to him. When I adapted my Twice Baked Potatoes recipe and replaced the potatoes with sweet potatoes I finally found a recipe that he really liked.

I usually bake sweet potatoes in the oven. But there are times when I am cooking something that takes up the entire oven or is cooked at a very different temperature and it makes it inconvenient to bake sweet potatoes at the same time. On those days, I ~~wish for a double oven~~ use the slow cooker to “bake” the sweet potatoes.

Wash the sweet potatoes, but don’t dry them. Place the sweet potatoes in the slow cookers.

Cut an oval in the top of the sweet potatoes, peel back the skin, and scoop out the inside of the sweet potatoes.

Mash the sweet potatoes. Add butter, honey, spices and whip with a blender until smooth and creamy.

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Alea’s Slow Cooker Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

Inpired By: Twice Baked Potates

Yield – 4 servings

Preparation Time – 15 minutes

Cooking Time – 4 hours

Ingredients

4 medium sweet potatoes

2 tablespoons butter

1 tablespoon honey

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

1/2 teaspoon ginger

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Directions

Wash sweet potatoes, but do not dry them.

Place the sweet potatoes in the slow cooker. Cook on high for 4 hours or low for 6 – 8 hours.

Once the sweet potatoes are cooked, remove them from the slow cooker and cut an oval into the top of the sweet potato. Pull off the top and scoop out the inside of the sweet potato.

Mash the sweet potatoes with a fork or potato masher.

Add butter, honey, and spices and whip ingredients with a mixer.

Spoon the mixture back into the sweet potatoes.

Wrap the sweet potatoes in foil and place in the slow cooker on low or warm until you are ready to serve them.

What is your favorite way to eat sweet potatoes?

Chana Masala in the Slow Cooker

Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:00:00 +0000

Thanks so much to Kimberly Danger from Frugal Bites for sharing this great recipe with us. I’m still on “leave,” enjoying my time with new baby and settling into life as a family of 6. I’m so grateful for the help and support of my fellow bloggers during this time! ~Erin

Ever since a new Indian restaurant opened up down the street from us last fall, I can’t get enough. It’s become my new foodie obsession. For me, it wasn’t enough to just enjoy a nice meal out every other month. I wanted to recreate these colorful flavors at home.

If you’re new to Indian cooking, don’t let these recipes overwhelm you. Just because the list of ingredients is longer than usual, it doesn’t mean they’re difficult or expensive. It’s true: you may have to spend a little bit on your initial investment in Indian cookery. Garam Masala, Turmeric and other spices are a must, and they can set you back $5-7 per bottle. However, they last a long time and ensure the authentic flavors of India. Plus, most of the other ingredients required are inexpensive and help offset the cost of the spices.

This recipe for one of my favorites, Chana Masala, is so flavorful you’ll forget that it’s vegetarian… and frugal!

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Chana Masala in the Slow Cooker

Ingredients

4 C. water

1 large onion, diced

1 28-oz. can diced tomatoes

1 6-oz. can tomato paste

⅓ C. chopped fresh cilantro leaves

2 tsp. garam masala

2 tsp. garlic powder

1 tsp. cumin

½ tsp. cayenne pepper (more if you like more of a kick)

1 tsp. ground coriander

1 tsp. turmeric

1 tsp. sea salt

2 cans chickpeas

Serve over Basmati Rice

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Directions

Combine everything except the chickpeas in your slow cooker and turn on low for 6-8 hours.

Add chickpeas.

Cook 2 more hours until they’re tender and have incorporated the Indian flavors.

Serve over Basmati rice.

About the Author: Kimberly Danger is the creator of Mommysavers.com and author of three books including Instant Bargains: 600+ Ways to Shrink Your Grocery Bills and Eat Well for Less. Her recipes can be found at Frugalbites.com.

Alea’s Slow Cooker Honey Glazed Ham

Alea — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:00:34 +0000

I love being able to serve Sunday dinner shortly after arriving home from church. But I don’t like leaving the oven on while we are gone. I do feel comfortable leaving the slow cooker on, so I occasionally use it to make Honey Glazed Ham.

I can cook the ham for one hour on high, then turn it to low before we leave and arrive home to a delicious ham. Once home, all I have to do is quickly saute some veggies to go with the ham while my husband slices it and my kids set the table. Then we can sit down and enjoy a low-labor, but fairly elegant Sunday dinner.

I do not use spiral sliced hams because they tend to dry out in the cooking process. Plus spiral sliced hams tend to be more expensive. You can save money by buying an uncut and unglazed ham and creating the glaze yourself. Homemade honey glaze is fast and easy to make and yields delicious results.

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Alea’s Slow Cooker Honey Glazed Ham

Yield – 12 servings

Preparation Time – 10 minutes

Cooking Time – 4 hours

Ingredients

medium cooked ham

1/2 cup water

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/4 cup honey

1 teaspoon cinnamon

2 tablespoons orange juice

1 teaspoon grated orange peel

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Directions

Place water in the bottom of the slow cooker. Place ham in the slow cooker. Place lid on top and cook on high for 1 hour.

In a small pan, combine brown sugar, honey, cinnamon, orange juice and orange peel. Cook over medium heat until it reaches a boil.

Drizzle honey mixture over ham.

Lower the temperature on the slow cooker to low heat and cook for 3 hours.

Slice and serve.

Even a small ham produces a lot of meat. I use the leftover ham in recipes throughout the week. I save the ham bone to use in soup. Leftover ham can also be frozen and then thawed for an easy dinner on a busy night.

Tricia’s Slow Cooker Old Bay Rotisserie Chicken

Tricia H — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:00:22 +0000

So many times I turn to the slow cooker for feeding my family. And often I try to put a new spin on a family favorite recipe just to make it stretch a little further for those hungry teens. Recently I paired two different slow cooker recipes. The result was delicious!

My friend Phyllis, at Household Ways, inspired my Slow Cooker Old Bay Chicken recipe. I made a new variation of that using a favorite rotisserie chicken recipe and Old Bay seasoning spices. The rotisserie recipe calls for seasoning with seasoned salt. I simply substituted Old Bay seasoning and just a sprinkle of garlic salt.

You just can’t beat easy, frugal, delicious – and being able to feed a crowd! Plus, there just may be a few leftovers you can use another night.

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Slow Cooker Old Bay Rotisserie Chicken

Adapted from Crockpot Rotisserie Chicken by Hillbilly Housewife

Yield – 6-8 servings

Preparation Time – 10-15 minutes

Cooking Time – 6 hours

Ingredients

1 whole fryer chicken

5-6 foil balls

Old Bay seasoning

garlic salt

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Directions

Rinse the chicken and pat dry with paper towels.

Shake Old Bay seasoning all over chicken until it is covered.

Add a few shakes of garlic salt.

Place foil balls in slow cooker. This serves are your ‘grill.’

Place chicken in slow cooker.

Cook on high for six (6) hours.

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Slow Cooker Cranberry-Apple Pork Roast

Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:00:00 +0000

So pork tenderloins were on super sale last week. So I bought one…with the intention of cutting it in half to use for 2 meals. I’d originally thought I would make 2 different meals, but as I was mixing this recipe up…I was completely overcome with the smells of the cranberry sauce and the many holiday memories that came with it. I got out another apple and another can of cranberry sauce and dropped the other half with the mixture in the freezer. We’ll have it later this week…on one of our “busy afternoon days” when I just need dinner to be ready to go right at 6 pm.

This is super simple, using ingredients that are in “high season” right now. Please don’t pay more than $1 for a can of cranberry sauce. Or for a bag of fresh cranberries. Keep your eyes peeled, you’ll find the deals! Apple prices fluctuate wildly, depending on the week and the variety, but I stick to the less than $1/lb varieties.

(Sorry about the “at night” photograph here. Completely forgot about the time change last weekend…and that it’s not light in my kitchen when dinner is served!)

Note: Recipe written below is for “double portion” – half to eat, half to freeze.

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Cranberry-Apple Orange Pork Roast

Yield – 4 servings x 2

Preparation Time – 10 minutes

Cooking Time – 8 hours in slow cooker

Ingredients

1 large pork tenderloin, cut in half (about 2.5 lbs.) ($4.22)

Salt and pepper

2 15 oz. cans whole cranberry sauce ($1.98)

3 medium apples, cored and diced ($1.25)

1 cup orange juice ($.50)

1 teaspoon ground ginger ($.05)

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ($.05)

Side suggestion: Bread or rice

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Directions

Place half of the pork loin in the base of the slow cooker and the other half in a labeled plastic freezer baggie. Sprinkle both with salt and pepper.

In mixing bowl, stir together the cranberry sauce, diced apples, orange juice and spices. Pour half over the pork in the slow cooker and the other half into the freezer baggie.

Set the slow cooker to low and cook for 8 hours. Serve with side of bread or rice.

Freeze the other half, up to 6 months. To use, thaw in the fridge overnight and cook as directed. If partially frozen when you start the slow cooker, that’s OK, but you might want to add an hour or two to the cooking time.

Cost $8.05 (2 meals worth)