October & the crock pot

Special diets can be time-consuming. Eating whole foods can also be time-consuming, and many people don't undertake changing their diet to something a little healthier because it can seem to be so daunting. Trust me, I know that as well as anyone! I don't enjoy cooking all that much. Perhaps I did before I had kids, but if I did, I don't remember. Now, with three kids three and under, cooking is something I dread. That hour between 4 and 5 has always been the witching hour in our house and big, elaborate meals with lots of ingredients sound like a good idea until I try to execute it. On those nights, at least one person ends up in tears and it's usually me.

So, to bust the myth that eating whole foods is extremely complicated or time-consuming, and because October is my birthday month as well as Halloween and I'd like to make things easier on myself, I'm undergoing a crock pot challenge. I want all our dinners to be crock pot meals. To make matters more complicated, they must be wheat-free and for the most part, grain free. I'm trying to stick to no grains at all at least every other day, if not more often. I'll post all the recipes and costs as I go.

If anyone has any tried-and-true crock pot recipes that don't use cream of soups (or other processed stuff) and doesn't have wheat, I'd love to try them out!