Make-ahead slow cooker recipes for lunches, freezer meals and busy weeks.
These slow cooker recipes are made for cooking once and eating several times. Shredded meat, beans and big batches of soup or chili portion well into containers for lunches, or go into the freezer for nights when you have no time at all.
Each recipe says how long it keeps in the fridge, whether it freezes, and how to reheat it. Many also work as freezer kits: bag the raw ingredients, freeze them, then thaw the bag overnight in the fridge before cooking.
Chicken thighs frozen in a honey-garlic soy sauce, thawed overnight and slow cooked until tender, then tossed in a glossy thickened teriyaki glaze. Pack it in 15 minutes and freeze it for up to 3 months.
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