5 Delicious & Easy Must Try Slow Cooker Recipes For Cold Days

While we are all cooped up and searching for quick,cheap and easy meals on a budget. I wanted to take some time and share my top 5 favorite slow cooker recipes!

Being a Mom, I like simple and wanted to pass some simplicity on to you. These recipes are 3-4 ingredients or less, but I'm fairly certain (because my family ALWAYS asks for seconds) all of these recipes are delicious!

#1 -  Slow-Cooked BBQ pulled Chicken/Pork

Ingredients

• 2-3 lbs Boneless Chicken breasts/Boneless Pork
• 1 can of soda... I like Dr. Pepper, but Cola or Root beer work too
• 1 bottle of favorite BBQ sauce
• White rice or Hamburger buns
• Salt & Pepper to taste - optional

Directions

• Place chicken in the slow cooker
• Pour in soda of choice
• Cook on low for 6 hrs or high for 3 hrs
• Shred Chicken & drain most liquid
• Add BBQ sauce
• Cook for additional 30 minutes
• Serve over white rice or on Hamburger buns

#2 -  Slow- Cooked BBQ & Grape jelly Meatballs & or Kielbasa

Ingredients

• 1 small Jar of Grape Jelly
• 1 bottle of BBQ sauce
• Bag of meatballs/ or a pkg of Kielbasa * In my house, we often go 1/2 & 1/2 *
• White rice
• Salt & Pepper to taste - optional

Directions

• Pour in BBQ sauce
• Add Grape jelly
• Pour in bag of Meatballs/Kielbasa
• Cook on Low for 6 hrs or High for 3 hrs
• Mixing occasionally
• Serve over White rice

#3 - Slow-Cooked Hawaiian Meatballs

Ingredients

• 1 bottle Hawaiian Marinade *I like Lawry's but any will do*
• Bag of meatballs
• 1 can of pineapple chunks
• White rice
• Salt & Pepper to taste - optional

Directions

• Add Meatballs
• Pour in a choice of Hawaiian marinade
• Add a whole can of pineapple chunks.. juice and all!
• Cook on Low for 5 hrs or High for 3 hrs
• Serve over White rice

#4 -Slow cooker Chicken and Gravy

Ingredients

• 2-3 Chicken breasts
• 2 packets of Gravy
• 1 can Cream of Chicken or Mushroom
• Potatoes
• Salt & Pepper to taste - optional

Directions

• Place Chicken Breast in the slow cooker
• Add can of Cream of Chicken or Mushroom
• Add 1 pack of dry gravy seasoning
• *optional add 1/2 cup of water
• ^ I personally wait and see how much moisture the chicken releases
• Cook on Low for 6 hrs or High for 4 hrs
• Shred Chicken
• Add Second gravy packet if needed
• Serve over Mashed Potatoes

#5 -  Slow cooker Italian Chicken

Ingredients

• 2-3 Boneless Chicken breasts
• 1 bottle of Italian salad dressing
• Box of favorite pasta
• Salt & Pepper to taste - optional

Directions

• Place chicken in the slow cooker
• Add Italian dressing
• Cook on High for 3.5 hrs or low for 7 hrs
• Shred or keep whole
• Serve over favorite cooked Pasta

If your mouth didn't water just by reading these recipes, it will once you try them.. My mouth was watering the whole time I was putting these recipes together for you, or maybe it's because I can smell the Hawaiian Meatballs slowly cooking..

I hope you enjoy these recipes as much as my family does!

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