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25 Kid-Friendly Slow Cooker Dinners

School is starting soon in most places, and these 25 Kid-Friendly Slow Cooker Dinners are a good reason to break out the slow cooker! This post has ideas for slow cooker food that the kids will actually eat!

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It’s’ back-to-school time again, when nightly dinners become more of a challenge to get on the table for many families. And slow cooker dinners can really help when you’re busy with homework and after-school activities, so here are 25 Kid-Friendly Slow Cooker Dinners!

I know kids can be choosey about the things they eat, but for this round-up I’ve chosen slow cooker recipes that would make many of the kids I know happy to come to dinner. I hope you find some slow cooker dinners here that your family will enjoy and ask for over and over!

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Slow Cooker Sandwiches with Chicken, Pork, or Beef

Slow Cooker Sandwiches with Chicken, Pork, or Beef are an easy dinner, and the slow cooker is perfect when you don’t to heat up the kitchen! And there are 18 different options here for slow cooker sandwiches for dinner!

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Slow Cooker Sandwiches with Chicken, Pork, or Beef collage of featured recipesAll of these Slow Cooker Sandwiches with Chicken, Pork, or Beef are a great dinner idea when you’re looking for extra-easy dinners or want dinner ideas that won’t heat up the kitchen! And slow cooker sandwiches like this will always be a great family-friendly dinner without much fuss!

And if you’re wanting a summer dinner when it’s too hot to cook, I tried to focus especially on sandwiches that are served with slaw, avocado, lettuce, tomatoes, and other fresh fruits and vegetables that cool things down. I hope you find some new favorites to get you through the coming months!

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Vegetarian Baked Beans Recipes (Slow Cooker or Instant Pot)

Dairy-Free Vegetarian

These Vegetarian Baked Beans Recipes will be the perfect addition to your summer meal when you want baked beans but don’t want meat! And these tasty baked beans are made in the slow cooker or the Instant Pot, so they won’t heat up the kitchen!

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It’s summer, and that means that people who love beans and love to cook with the slow cooker or Instant Pot are making baked beans, and this collection of Vegetarian Baked Beans is for everyone who wants baked beans without meat.

Vegetarian Baked Beans are a perfect side dish for any plant based meal, and each one of these recipes has some fun and interesting ingredients  adding flavor to the beans.

And this round-up has 14 different recipes for vegetarian baked beans, and every recipe will produce perfectly cooked beans, with sweet, savory, and smokey flavors accomplished without using meat!

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20 Slow Cooker Desserts with Fruit

These 20 Slow Cooker Desserts with Fruit are perfect for a special occasion when you want to make dessert but don’t want to fuss. And slow cooker dessert will also keep the kitchen cool when you don’t want to use the oven.

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This collection of 20 Slow Cooker Desserts with Fruit is for everyone who loves dessert made with fruit but likes the idea of a recipe you don’t have to watch that carefully or doesn’t like using the hot oven in the summer. Every one of these Slow Cooker desserts are whenever fresh fruit is available, and there are some options that work with frozen fruit too!

And for many of these dessert ideas you just combine ingredients in the Slow Cooker, turn it on, and walk away for a few hours. And just think how amazing the house will smell and your family will have no idea how little work it actually took to make dessert in the slow cooker! I hope you pull out the slow cooker and try one of these fruit desserts soon!

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Instant Pot Mexican Shredded Beef

Low-Carb

This delicious and easy-to-make Instant Pot Mexican Shredded Beef can be the start of so many amazing dinner ideas! And Mexican Beef tacos, tostadas, or burritos are probably going to be popular with the family, and you can make the shredded beef into delicious enchiladas as well!

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Spicy Shredded Mexican Beef can be the start of so many tasty dinners, and today we’re sharing Instant Pot Mexican Shredded Beef dinners of all kinds!  There are 12 tasty dinner ideas using Mexican beef, and a few of these recipes can also be made in the slow cooker if you really want a recipe that’s flexible!

And the beauty of making spicy shredded beef for tacos is that every family member can use the taco wrapping and taco topping that they prefer. You can serve this spicy beef in tortillas, in low-carb tortillas, or as a lettuce wrap, and top the spicy beef with cheese, salsa, sour cream, avocado, or even a think-outside-the-box topping like radish slaw!

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