Slow cooker and kids

Liz051405

M is obsessed with the slow cooker. If I ask him to please play with his brother so I can make dinner he responds "you should have just used the slow cooker". Smart ass.

Anyway, I'm still on a hunt for really good and easy kid friendly recipes. Which do your kids absolutely love?

(and if he hates a dinner from the slow cooker at least he doesn't blame me. He says "can you tell the slow cooker no to make this again." lol.) 

kellyann1972

how lucky are you. My kids see the slow cooker and GROAN! They hate food touching each other :-)

debfife

G really likes the crockpot chicken chili from skinny taste.

ghl

lol, that's too cute. For stuff in the slow cooker, my kid loves chili, beef vegetable soup, beef stew, minestrone soup, and meatballs/italian sausage w/ red sauce. Pulled pork or pulled chicken is another family-friendly crock meal. I remember someone (penguingrrl?) having a really easy lemon chicken recipe for the crock.

beef minestrone

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Beef stew - I just toss cubes of beef chuck (~2lbs) in flour, brown it in a pan, add to crock w/ onions (1 cut up), potatoes (~2 lbs cut up) and carrots (3 or 4 cut up). Deglaze the pan w/ 1 cup beef broth and pour into the crock.  Add about 2 more cups of broth. Add a pinch of dried thyme, a handful of parsley, a couple cloves of garlic, a bay leaf and salt/pepper to taste. Cook on low for 8 hours. When I get home, I add either a flour/water slurry to thicken up the gravy or use powdered brown gravy mix in a water slurry, stir it in and put it on high for 20 more minutes to thicken up. Variation - add curry powder. For soup, I just add whatever other veggies I need to use up (usually celery) more broth, and a couple tbsp tomato paste, and skip the flour slurry at the end.

Chili - I use the wicks false alarm chili seasoning mix w/ 2 lbs browned ground beef, 2 cups of dried beans soaked overnight, and a 1/2 cup each of finely diced onion, green bell pepper, and celery. 1 large can of tomato sauce and 2 cups water. low for 8 hrs. When i get home, I add a masa harina slurry (the masa flour comes in the seasoning package) and let is continue to simmer for another 20-30 min to thicken.

Pulled chicken - chicken leg quarters rubbed liberally with a spice mix of equal parts brown sugar, salt, paprika and a dash of cumin and oniion powder. Cook as is in the crock. After, peel off the skin, shred the meat off the bones, and add bbq sauce. For pulled pork, i use boneless pork shouder and do the same. Serve on rolls.

 

LaVitaBella

Hahahahaha that's so cute!  

 Julia likes the WW chicken stroganoff.  I just google and find one.  I'm pretty sure it's chicken, cream of mushroom soup, onion soup packet and sour cream.  All fat free versions for the WW recipe.   

mrs.marie.g

belle LOVED the beef stragnoff that i got from kelly runningmamacooks and so did i

and i am test driving her pot roast on wed too

belle USED TO LOVE chicken salsa (but not s he's on a spicy kick so she won't touch it)

 

molldoll71

Pulled pork is the one thing both will eat.  Billy will eat brisket andMelbride's lemon garlic chicken.

Kristen81603

Kieran loved the sweet and sour chicken in the crockpot, he loved the chicken taco chili, the turkey chili soup, he loves ribs in the crockpot too-