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Because I believe slow cooking is key to getting and staying slim today I’m giving away a Hamilton Beach Set & Forget 6-Quart Programmable Slow Cooker!
Before beginning my Weight Watchers friendly crock pot cooking challenge back in October 2013, I’d never really thought much about the link between losing weight and slow cooking. But the truth is, if you are trying to lose weight, your slow cooker can be your best friend.
For most of us, dinner is the meal that often derails our best intentions when it comes to weight loss.
After a long day of work, you arrive home tired and hungry. And the last thing you want to do is think about cooking dinner.
So you end up grabbing the quickest thing you can get your hands on. And it’s rarely, if ever, light and healthy!
But, with a crock pot instead of worrying all day about what to make for dinner, you know a healthy and delicious meal will be ready and waiting when you get home.
Or you can use your slow cooker on the weekends to make light and healthy meals to warm up during the week. The slow cooker/crockpot makes it easy to cook healthy, affordable meals without having to spend hours in the kitchen.
Have you heard the saying, “20 minutes in the kitchen can save you 3 hours on the treadmill (affiliate link)“?
Well, it’s true!
Why The Slow Cooker/CrockPot is an Essential Kitchen Tool for Weight Loss…
1. Makes meal planning easier. Many Weight Watchers crock pot recipes are complete one pot meals.
2. Requires planning which is critical to weight loss success. If we want to eat right and lose weight we need a plan. If we leave it to chance we’ll end up opting for high calorie convenience foods: take out, the drive-thru, fast food, the vending machine, etc.
3. Lends itself to big batch cooking and leftovers. Which can be re-purposed or portioned out for future meals.
4. Saves time in the kitchen. You can put your ingredients in the crock pot in the morning or afternoon and dinner will be ready when you want it. I love the convenience of investing a little time and then moving forward with my day, while dinner cooks, practically unattended. No pots boiling over, burned skillets and last minute rushing around to get dinner figured out.
5. Provides variety. You can make a lot more than pot roast, soup and chili in your slow cooker, as I’ve learned during the last six months. Appetizers, beverages, breakfasts, main dishes, side dishes and desserts are all possible with a slow cooker.
6. Makes cooking possible even for those with little kitchen know-how. Slow cooking is practical, realistic and very forgiving, perfect for novice cooks. Recipes tend to be straightforward with minimal ingredients and very few steps. Meals made in the slow cooker may not be the prettiest ever. But, they can be some of the tastiest.
7. Naturally Low Fat. Because crock pot cooking is a moist form of cooking it requires less fat, so you’ll save calories and points.
8. Perfect all year round. While most of us think of the slow cooker during the fall and winter, it’s the perfect summer kitchen device. I’ve received lots of comments from folks in hot climates who depend on their slow cooker all summer to avoid heating up the kitchen.
This Giveaway has ended!
The randomly selected winner is Phyllis Zumbolo. Congratulations! Please send an email to support@simple-nourished-living.com to claim your slow cooker.
Slow Cook Yourself Slim Slow Cooker Giveaway Details
TO ENTER
1. Leave a comment below answering the question, “How has the slow cooker helped you eat better and/or lose weight?”
A winner will be selected at random and announced next Sunday.
Good luck!
Hamilton Beach Set & Forget 6-Quart Programmable Slow Cooker
Notes from The SweetHome review site on the Hamilton Beach Set & Forget 6-Quart Programmable Slow Cooker: “It’s not fancy, but the intuitive interface, locking lid, and modest price have made it the best deal for your money three years running—and it’s the only slow cooker with a heat probe to monitor the doneness of roasts and other meats.”
It also was featured in this Slow Cooker Savvy Class I took recently.
I use my crock pot every weekend so that I have one thing cooking while I am working on something else. Really excited to try this recipe.
Using my slow cooker helps with meal planning for the week. On busy days when I get home late, I have my meal hot and ready for me. I love it for portion control and I can freeze leftovers that are divided into portions. Slow cooker meals don’t taste like “diet food”.
I come home from work at 7 am, and I can throw all ingredients into a crock pot and have dinner ready when kids come home from school! No muss, no fuss! Just healthy meals ready to eat!
One of the hardest parts of staying on track for me is the struggle of coming home from work feeling exhausted and hungry. Having something something hot waiting for me takes the stress of having to cook and/or loosing control and snacking and going over my points. I love your soup recipes.
I love how I can make healthy dinners for my family with very little cleanup. It is so much healthier for my family to have these meals & not takeout & fast food.
Slow cooking has always been a part of my life – but having joined Weight Watchers I am able to “update” my recipes to be more healthy and better for me — and the rest of my family!
I love that I can place chicken or beef into the slow cooker along with some vegetables, walk away, and by evening have a delicious and satisfying main dish prepared for myself and my family.
I love my crock pot. I love the feeling I get knowing that when I get home, dinner is done. I hope to find more healthy foods that I can cook in the crock pot.
I have just begun for follow you, so this is all new to me….but I am off to a good start. I have gathered many recipes I want to try and at this very moment I have chicken marsala in my small crockpot. it smells delicious and I will have meals for three nights in the coming week or I can freeze a meal!!
The slow cooker is growing on me. It makes me plan ahead and in doing so I eat what I need not anything and everything.