I know with school starting that many parents are looking for an easier way to get dinner on the table on busy school nights. On those nights your crock-pot is going to be your best friend!
To save even more time, you can assemble the crock-pot meals ahead of time and freeze. Then just pour the ingredients into your crock-pot in the morning – dinner is ready with only 1-2 minutes of hands-on time!
My friend Erin from 5dollardinners.com has created an awesome time-saving meal plan where you can make 20 Gluten-Free Freezer Crock-Pot Meals from Costco for only $150!
Here are the meals you’ll be making:
Each meal in this plan is DOUBLED, so these 10 recipes make 20 meal packs total! Each pack serves a family of 4. Larger families can double or use 2 packs for 1 meal!
There are 2 packages available for purchase with this plan and both are very affordable.
I opted to purchase the plan that included the assembly videos and I am SO glad I did! It was incredibly helpful to be able to see how Erin assembled everything. She had several great time-saving tips in the videos too.
My cost ended up being a little bit higher (still under $200) because my Costco did not carry the sweet potatoes, so I purchased organic sweet potatoes from Kroger. I also opted to purchase the organic chicken from Costco, which increased my cost quite a bit, but I also used my own homemade chicken broth (essentially free) which helped to offset some of my additional cost.
Also, Erin must be super-human because it took me closer to 4.5 hours to make the meals. That time does include clean-up though. That works out to only 13.5 minutes per meal – still a HUGE time-saver!
I’m so excited to have an entire month’s worth of weeknight dinners in my freezer, ready to go! Now I can have dinner prepared in just 2 minutes on those crazy busy days!
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Stephanie Martinez
Jenn these look delish, we should make a few.
These are gluten free, and they also Paleo? Love the idea, and would love to try it.
Thanks
Jan
Hey! I bought the $5 packet for this awesome meal planning tool you
just posted, but opened it up to my cell phone and now I can't get it to my e-mail so I can print it out for my binder. Can you help?? :-D thanks for this really awesome resource! Glad I found you!
I believe you should be able to open it on your computer if you click on the link in the email again.
Wow - this is so cool!!
Looks wonderful and easy if you plan ahead!
So awesome. I really need to learn how to do these freezer meals.
Perfect way to meal plan! Wish I had a Costco membership.
What a great way to be prepared for dinner!
I've got my 20 in the freezer too! Gotta love having a month's worth of dinners DONE! :)
Yes, I feel so relieved knowing I have those meals in there!