Time to Haul out the Slow Cooker Again

My stash of crock pot meals has slowly disappeared into my tummy. Time to get busy on a new stash. 

I'm defrosting a chub of ground turkey in the fridge. Tomorrow, or overnight tomorrow, I'll do a big pot of ground turkey chili. I have everything I need for that.

Over the weekend, I'll do a whole chicken in that slow cooker. Someone gave me a big ol' chicken but it's frozen solid. It will take a few days to defrost safely in the fridge. When that's done cooking, I can cut off meal size portions and freeze them for easy grab-and-go quick-fix meals.

Tomorrow, I should do that one spaghetti squash that keeps looking at me. I have a jar of home made sauce someone gave me, so I should also use that up. In addition, I have a pound of ground chicken in the freezer. Maybe I could make that into a baby toaster-oven meat loaf and pack slices of that with the spaghetti squash into meal size portions and freeze them.

One other thing really needs to be cooked before I end up having to toss it out - I've got 2 small dark eggplants and 1 small white one. I also have a package of Shake and Bake so I might slice those into 1/2-inch-thick rounds and do them up in the toaster oven on disposable foil so I have no clean up.

The slow cooker pot is so easy to wash after I use it. This past month, month and a half, that I've had to water-ration, wash-ups after cooking is something I need to think about ahead of cooking time.

That should put some different meals in the freezer for me.

There's only one thing I really should buy, and that is some meaty ham bones. I crave some pea soup and some ham-and-beans and other things. I would need no other meat for a long time.

Sometimes, it just helps to write something like this down - it implants it into the mind and makes it more likely that I will follow through. Sometimes, not always...