Over 60 recipes for delicious, home-cooked, nourishing meals from your electric slow cooker. Over 60 recipes for delicious, home-cooked, nourishing meals from your electric slow cooker. For anyone who loves good food but has little time to spend cooking, an electric slow cooker (crockpot) can fit perfectly into a busy lifestyle. They can be used day or night, and you don’t have to stay at home to keep an eye on your cooking while you produce hearty, healthy food for all the family. The recipes in this book mainly use sustaining grains, beans, and legumes, along with "superfood" vegetable ingredients and high protein foods including fish, poultry, and meat. The addition of fresh herbs and super spices such as turmeric and ginger adds flavor as well as packing a nutritional punch. Ideas for Breakfast & Brunch include Sweet Potato & Cauliflower Hash with Pumpkin Seeds; Best Baked Beans; Spiced Fruit Compote with Chia; and Apple Pie Porridge with Blueberries and Toasted Almonds. Light Bites & Lunches to share include Mung Bean Hummus; Supergreen Soup; Beet Falafel; Steamed Savory Garbanzo Cake with a Spinach Raita; and Mackerel with Lime & Mango Salsa. Deliciously sustaining recipes for Weekdays include Jamaican Black Bean Pepper Pot; Yellow Split Pea & Coconut Curry; Poached Fish in Dashi Broth with Kombu & Edamame; Chicken & Chipotle Barley Bowl; and Asian Beef Broth with Orange & Star Anise. At the Weekends feast on comforting Winter Chestnut & Puy Lentil Stew; Bonfire Adzuki Bean Chili; and Five-spice Pulled Pork with Asian Slaw or choose a lighter option such as the Sri-Lankan Fish Curry; Chicken, Faro & Porcini Pilaf; or a Moroccan Harissa-spiced Lamb Salad. Discover the convenience and versatility of your slow cooker (crockpot) with these inspired and nourishing recipes.�
Healthy, delicious meals have never been easier! The slow cooker, pressure cooker, and Instant Pot® meet freezer cooking in this all-new, beautifully photographed, and rigorously tested cookbook. It’s dinnertime and, yet again, you’re behind. The kids are cranky, the fridge is empty, the kitchen is a mess. Sound familiar? That was every night at the houses of popular bloggers and cookbook authors Polly Conner and Rachel Tiemeyer until they discovered freezer cooking. And once they realized that freezer meals could be made even easier with the hands-free magic of the pressure cooker, Instant Pot, or a slow cooker, dinnertime drama became a thing of the past. From breakfast options like Peanut Butter Cup Steel-Cut Oats and Denver Omelet Casserole to dinnertime faves such as Fiesta Lime Chicken Bowls and French Dip Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, every recipe is made with recognizable, whole-food ingredients. You’ll learn how to prep and freeze bright, flavorful food so that you’re never more than a few minutes away from a hot, homemade meal.
Satisfying Paleo Meals without the Effort Feed your family wholesome meals that are a cinch to prepare with these downright delicious Paleo masterpieces. Layered with flavor and packed with a nutritious punch, these slow cooker meals make following the Paleo diet simple and convenient. Updated versions of already familiar meals smooth the transition to Paleo cooking and eating, and options for making meals vegetarian, low carb and AIP-friendly mean that everybody can enjoy tantalizing Paleo favorites, regardless of dietary restrictions. Even the busiest home cooks can simply toss a few ingredients in the slow cooker at the start of the day to create fuss-free Paleo-friendly dinners, including: Simmerin’ Hawaiian Fajitas Better-for-You Beef Bourguignon Italian Harvest Chicken Soup Coconut-Lime–Poached Halibut Tenderloin Cacciatore Butternut-Bacon Bisque with Shrimp Cherry Chuck Roast Smoky Chorizo Chicken Slow-Herbed Salmon Featuring a foreword by Paleo pro Mark Sisson, this authoritative collection makes it easier than ever for you to fuel your body with tasty dishes all day long.
FAMILY FREEZER MEALS is the ultimate cookbook to help you and your family eat healthy all year long. The book is packed with freezer cooker basics, best assembly methods, and the motivation to make freezer meals a staple in your life. With family-friendly recipes such as Cool Ranch Shredded Tacos, BBQ Maple Ribs, and Lentil Sloppy Joes, this book shows you how to stock your freezer with slow cooker meals that extend beyond slow cooker soups and stews. Plus, you'll get more for your money, less stress, and precious time back that you can spend with your family. Kelly is the wife, mother of five, and slow cooker addict behind Family Freezer Meals. She is committed to sharing healthy, simple, and budget-friendly recipes through the website's blog and freezer eCookbooks. Besides cooking and eating, Kelly loves spending time with her family, reading fiction, and running outside.
Author and slow cooker expert Kathy Hester, founder of the blog Healthy Slow Cooking (www.healthyslowcooking.com), will show you how simple it is to 1.) Prep your ingredients the night before, in just a few minutes' time, and 2.) Assemble everything in the slow cooker in the morning, right before you head to work. --Publisher.
A groundbreaking approach to wellness that will help you cut through the clutter and find the small shifts that create huge changes in your life, from the host of the podcast The Feel Good Effect “An absolutely fresh and insightful guide . . . If you’re looking to create more calm, clarity, and joy, this book is for you.”—Shauna Shapiro, Ph.D., author of Good Morning I Love You What if wellness isn’t about achieving another set of impossible standards, but about finding what works—for you? Radically simple and ridiculously doable, The Feel Good Effect helps you redefine wellness, on your own terms. Drawing from cutting-edge science on mindfulness, habit, and behavior change, podcast host Robyn Conley Downs offers a collection of small mindset shifts that allow for more calm, clarity, and joy in everyday life, embracing the idea that “gentle is the new perfect” when it comes to sustainable wellness. She then leads you through an easy set of customizable habits for happiness and health in mind, body, and soul, allowing you to counteract stress and prevent burnout. Instead of trying to get more done, The Feel Good Effect offers a refreshingly sane approach that will allow you to identify and focus on the elements that actually move the needle in your life right now. Less striving. More ease. It’s time to feel good.
Here are the best-loved healthy slow cooker recipes all in one place. Whether your body responds best to a gluten-free, vegan, paleo, low-fat, or low-sugar diet, you will find dozens of easy and delicious recipes that will make dinner a snap. You can trust these recipes because they are: Collected from some of America’s best home cooks Tested in real-life settings Carefully selected from thousands of recipes Everyone wants to feel like a smart cook, but it’s tricky when you’re navigating food sensitivities or allergies, different ages, and different dietary needs. Fix-It and Forget-It Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook has something for everyone, with each recipe tagged to indicate if it is: Gluten-Free Dairy-Free Paleo Diabetic-Friendly Low-Fat Vegetarian Vegan Indexes in the back list recipes by healthy category for easy reference. Finally, a cookbook that makes dinner easy, even for families with diverse dietary needs!