Crock Pot Crazies!

 As the fall season is trying to make an appearance (I say try since it has been unseasonably warm the past few weeks) my friend Cheryl and I have been using our crock pots more and more! We have found these ladies who call themselves the Crockin' Girls. Their recipes are super easy and taste wonderful.In an effort to make our lives easier, we decided to take some of our favorite recipes, mix all of the ingredients together,  and put them in a freezer bag for later. Ta Da! We have super easy dinners ready to take out of the freezer and put in the crock pot!

 We headed to Crest with our shopping list. We doubled all of the ingredients so we would have enough for each of us to have six different meals to freeze.  On a side note, we don't know how to convert ANYTHING! How many ounces are in a cup? How many cups are in a quart? How many cups are in a pint?! We gave Siri a workout. She probably thinks we are stupid.

 Anyways, in less than an hour we were checked out. The lady at Crest let us split the bill and in the end we both spent 83.45. Not too shabby! That's about 13.90 per dinner. Each dinner could feed at least four people if not five or six for some. After a quick break for lunch, we got started in the kitchen about 1:55 pm ( you will see why this is important later).

Let the crock pot cookin commence!!

Most of our supplies!

We started off with actually cooking potato soup. It would be done in four hours and we could freeze it already cooked! It would be done by the time we finished with everything else.

Measuring the garlic!

The timer is set and we're cookin! 

We used red potatoes that we didn't have to peel, so this took us no time at all to get ready!

Next we worked our way through the other recipes. Before we would put each of our concoctions in their freezer bag we would write on the bag instructions. We would also use the bags to mix ingredients has well, which resulted in fewer dishes to clean up!

Cheryl chopping peppers!

Crest actually split these for us! Otherwise they may not have been cut so well! LOL!

We also pretended we were Rachel Ray with out fancy strings to tie the chicken! :)

The next recipe is one I have been making since college. My roommate Emily showed me how to make this and we would fix it in the oven. It is also the dish I made for TJ way back in the day so he would think I could cook! LOL!

Please note the fancy instructions on the bags! :)

Next up Italian beef, pork chops, and a chicken pasta dish!

You make the pasta separate from the chicken in the crock pot, but we went ahead a bought it  so we would have it on hand! :)

 You are probably thinking, what's the catch? There is none! This was so simple we were done at 3:55 pm. That includes clean up!! I know! Two hours and we had five meals in the freezer, one meal in the crock pot, dishes in the dishwasher, and trash out to the trash can! So what did we do to kill two more hours while the soup cooked? We went to get our nails done and wandered around Hobby Lobby! :)

Landry wanted to dig into the trash! 

That's not too many dishes if you ask me! 

So all in all it was a huge success! Not to mention it was a ton of fun! I would highly recommend this for a fun afternoon with the girls! :)

Thanks Crockin Girls for the recipes! :)

You should get this book if you don't have it or  they have a wonderful website with  their recipes as well! 

Oh and just so you know, the soup is so yummy and we might have listened to Christmas music while we work fixing the meals! :)

If anyone out there is reading this and wants to buy me an awesome Christmas gift, I want this really really bad! It is so cool! Cheryl had one and it chopped everything so well! Really, it's the coolest thing EVER!

Until Next Time,

Leigha