Seeing that today is the 31st, I declare the October Crock Pot Challenge month over.
How did I do? Well, I won some, I lost some. I'd say I probably only used my crock pot, hm, 18, 19ish times this month. That means I failed almost half of the month. BUT, honestly, a lot of that was because we made enough to have leftovers the following night, so I don't think it was an entire failure. I found some really good recipes along the way...and a few that weren't so good. You might remember I posted my meal plan at the very beginning of the month. So here are the major winners:
Spaghetti Squash Lasagna (which I translated into a crock pot recipe that you can find here)
Cream Cheese Chicken Chili - YUM. I made my own ranch seasoning and cream cheese (actually really easy, will post on this later) and used some frozen black beans I cooked last month in the slow cooker and frozen corn, but other than that I followed the directions. This was SO good. I served it for company alongside some homemade, warm tortillas (I may or may not have cheated on my no-wheat pledge this night, ahem).
World's Best Chicken - Hello, deliciousness! This is a new favorite! I might make myself look weird here, but I've never worked with chicken thighs until this recipe. As in ever. But I am a chicken thigh convert now!
The Chicken Enchilada Soup was pretty good. The Eggplant Lasagna I converted into a crock pot recipe too and we all liked it. The rest that I posted in my meal plan we either REALLY didn't like or we never got around to trying, and so as not to be rude I'm not going to mention which ones didn't pass our test. :)
Overall, I'd call the month a success because I got three new AWESOME recipes out of the deal, ones that we'll add into our regular rotation now, and what could be a failure about that?
I haven't sat down to make November's meal plan yet because life has been especially busy this week, but I've got my meal planning stuff all out and ready for me. I'll be posting it in a few days!
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