This year you can lose weight, gain energy, feel incredible, and not have to spend hours cooking in your kitchen. Your slow cooker and these eight delicious and nutritious slow cooker meals will keep dinnertime interesting and help you shed pounds fast.
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Slow Cooker Chicken Chili
Making this slow cooker chicken chili is a breeze an it's a protein and vitamin dense meal that will keep you satisfied for hours. Add chicken, beans, broth, spices, and even a splash of hot sauce to your slow cooker. Six hours later the chicken shreds like butter and you're ready for one of the best meals to warm you up on a cold night.
Slow Cooker Chicken Satay
If you love the flavors of peanut butter and chili sauce, this slow cooker chicken satay provides a complex combination of spices and ingredients balanced by the richness of creamy coconut milk. Feel free to add veggies to the sauce and to serve it over brown rice or quinoa.
Slow Cooker Dal
This slow cooker dal recipe takes lentils — one of the healthiest legumes around — and jazzes it up with cayenne pepper, turmeric, tomatoes, and tons of garlic. It's especially delicious served over rice with a side of thick yogurt.
Slow Cooker Enchiladas
Who would have thought you can make slow cooker enchiladas and that they could taste even better than their oven-cooked cousins? You'll have to brown the beef in a pan first, but after that initial step all ingredients — from salsa and cheese to tortillas — are layered in your crockpot to resemble a pie.
Slow Cooker Lentils
Lentils are an excellent source of fiber, protein, copper, potassium, zinc, and so much more. Clearly, they deserve another place on this list, this time as a slow cooker lentil soup side dish or main course.
Slow Cooker Oatmeal
Make slow cooker oats overnight and wake up to a heart-healthy breakfast that will keep you energized and powered up until lunchtime. Oats are versatile so experiment with different flavor combinations — apple cinnamon one night; banana and brown sugar the next.
Slow Cooker Vegetable Soup
There's no better way of getting all of your vegetables into one course than by whipping up this slow cooker vegetable soup. Kale, zucchini, carrots, celery, and tomatoes meet the zesty kick provides by a few teaspoons of pesto sauce. The result is a rich and healthy soup with plenty of flavor.
Slow Cooker White Bean Stew
White beans are the star of this slow cooker white bean stew, which also features carrots, onions, kale, and a complementary sprig of rosemary and spices for a nice kick.
