The Prayer Circle, A Poem

Healthy Family Meals Made Easy; 2hrs-7 Crockpot Meals

In brainstorming things I could improve to reduce stress in my day it became apparent to me though I have really great intentions of having healthy food in the house for dinner- I fail when it comes to anything resembling an action plan. Like packing for a trip, I like to have many options available even through I may not actually use some of the choices this actual week. I figure if I have a big enough variety eventually everything gets used. The problem is though I am great at freezing things, it doesn't become handy at 6pm to cooked with a rock solid protein, and I have a HUGE habit of not using all my produce before it goes bad and that makes me a little nuts...

- enter crockpot frozen meals-

I've been intending to do these for a while, so after scoring a bunch of discounted meats at the local store last night I decided to make a different choice and actually freeze the meals, not just the meat and see if that helps me stay sane this week.

A couple of them were my own recipes, just prepped and tossed in a freezer bag, and the others were Pinterest finds- if you are eating Advo-friendly and on Pinterest then you will definitively want to follow my Sparkedmom Challenge Friendly AdvoCare Recipes board. Here are the recipes I pulled from there:

Super Easy Crockpot Spaghetti Squash and Meatballs
12 Paleo Crockpot Meals


Pot Roast Beef:
Roast
Rub Seasoning (1T salt, 1/4T garlic powder 1/4T pepper)
Vegi's; cut up onion, potatoes, baby carrots, celery, garlic (or other vegi's) to liking
~ rubbed down the roast with seasoning, and tossed all vegi's into the bag- wrote on it to add 1C broth

I particularly liked this idea because by the time I get around to actually making a roast I froze at some point the vegi's have gone south or I'm missing some on hand and it's so irritating!

So that's it- one Spark, 2 hours (including shopping) and I was done cooking for a week- I call that a win! Fingers crossed that it becomes my saving grace! Happy Monday =D