The slow cooker is a great kitchen tool to use to make your Plan Z Diet recipes. I do it all the time!
Chief Dieter
Plan Z Diet
For many of you, in so many parts of the country, another 15 minutes to an hour and half or more has been added to your commute. It has nothing to do with road construction. It has everything to do with ice and snow.
You have to dig your way out before you can get in your car.
You have to shovel the walk to keep the kiddies safe on the way to school and avoid a City fine for not clearing a path.
You have to salt the blazes out of your driveway because the ice has built up so bad you could skate on it.
In my case, (in the big city of Chicago), the snow plows don’t go through the alleys. All of our garages (for those of us lucky enough to have a garage) line up along the alleys. We’ve had more snow this year than we had in the last three years combined. And it’s only early February. We don’t have much more space to pile snow. It’s really tough to get out of our garage at this point and they’ve been predicting snow about every 3 days lately.
I love snow. Don’t get me wrong. That’s why I live here. I don’t, however, love the logistics required at the moment.
And here’s the kicker: if you don’t get it shoved in the morning, it’s waiting for you when you get home.
I can’t shovel for you, but I can make the job of getting dinner ready on the Plan Z Diet FASTER and TASTY. Let’s pull out the slow cooker.
The slow cooker is a mainstay for many and I know many a harried parent who throws things in the crock pot and rushes off to work. I knew one guy who used to just toss in six chicken breasts with some broth and head off to work. He came home to six cooked chicken breasts. He’d cut up one breast each evening and put it on top of a salad and that was his dinner.
I cringe at the thought.
So let’s make slow cooking tasty. It is a perfect cooking vessel for a lot of my Plan Z Diet recipes. Most recipes for a slow cooker are based on a medium-sized pot and serve approximately 4 adults. Most of those recipes can be doubled for up to 8. You might have to adjust the cooking liquid so the pot doesn’t get too full but other than that you should be fine. I have 4 slow cookers; one for each cooking application. I have a teeny one for dips and sauces. The medium will make dinner for four. This is the one I use the most. I have a bigger one for small crowds. I cook large batches of things like chili in there, or use it to keep a large dish warm on a buffet. And I bought the biggest one when I needed to make a whole load of ribs for a crowd. You should choose the pot that best suits your family and your needs.
Use a Plan Z Diet recipe like this one – Italian Crock Pot Stew. Toss the stuff in the pot quickly, put the lid on and get off to work (see instructions at the end for cooking for 7 hours. Then use the auto-shut off on your pot so it keeps your food warm). Then when you’re shoveling the final piles of snow in the early evening you can come into the house and smell your dinner ready-to-eat!
Enjoy!
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