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Slow Cooker Recipes with Black Beans

These Slow Cooker Recipes with Black Beans will help you use black beans more often, and there are also tips for cooking dried black beans! And if you’d like to save money on beans, there are plenty of good ideas here to help you kick the canned bean habit.

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This collection of Slow Cooker Recipes with Black Beans is my way of encouraging you to cook dried black beans and freeze them instead of just using a can! I’m speaking to everyone (even myself) when I say it’s time to kick the canned bean habit!

And I get it! Even though I do know how to cook dried beans in a slow cooker, sometimes it’s just easy to grab a can of beans from the pantry. But slow cooked beans taste so much better than canned ones, and all those cans aren’t good for the environment either.

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20 Beef Brisket Recipes (Slow Cooker and Instant Pot)

There are tasty family-friendly dinner options in this collection of Beef Brisket Recipes to make in the slow cooker or the Instant Pot! And there are 20 delicious options for beef brisket in this post, so be sure to check out all the recipes!

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Beef Brisket is a flavorful cut of beef that can be delicious when it’s cooked correctly! It’s the cut of beef that barbecue joints talk about cooking “low and slow” which makes it perfect for cooking in the slow cooker. But the Instant Pot can also produce amazing results for cooking brisket.

And whether you prefer using the slow cooker or the Instant Pot I bet you’re going to find some dinner ideas your family is going to love in this collection of Beef Brisket Recipes! And there are definitely ideas here for a low-carb meal for those who are watching their carbs!

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Dinners with Chicken and Black Beans (Slow Cooker or Instant Pot)

There are delicious options in this collection of Dinners with Chicken and Black Beans for the Slow Cooker or the Instant Pot! You’ll find 16 tasty recipes featured here with Mexican flavors.

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Chicken and black beans are two important ingredients in Mexican cooking, and they can be turned into a wide variety of dinner options! And this collection of Dinners with Chicken and Black Beans has sixteen delicious options to make in the Slow cooker or the Instant Pot!

And most of these recipes are super easy to make, with flavors your family is probably going to enjoy. I hope you find at least one you’d like to try!

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All Day Slow Cooker Recipes

You’ll love these All Day Slow Cooker Recipes that can simmer away while you’re working or spending time with the family! And your house will smell amazing when dinner is going all day in the slow cooker!

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I feel like the work I do on this site gives me an idea of how people are using their slow cookers and Instant Pots, and lately I’m feeling like the slow cooker is making a comeback! So I’m updating this great collection of All Day Slow Cooker Recipes for everyone who’s starting to use the slow cooker a bit more.

I’m old enough to remember when there was a collection of “Set it and Forget It” slow cooker cookbooks, but slow cookers have changed some since those days, so read the tips in this post for best results with all day slow cooker recipes. And once you master all-day cooking there’s a lot to love about dinners that goes into the slow cooker in the morning and cook all day, and having the slow cooker going all day will make your house smell great!

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Recipes Using Lentils (Slow Cooker or Instant Pot)

This collection of Recipes Using Lentils will help you use the Slow Cooker or the Instant Pot to cook lentils in something besides soup! And lentils are nutritious, delicious, inexpensive, and easy to cook and this post has 12 interesting ways to use them!

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Lentils are one of my favorite ingredients to use in soup, and there’s already a great collection of Slow Cooker and Instant Pot Lentil Soup Recipes on this site! But today I’m encouraging you to try one of these Recipes Using Lentils to make something besides soup because lentils are a versatile ingredient for a wide variety of dishes!

And this great collection of recipes to cook lentils in the Slow Cooker or the Instant Pot is going to give you so many interesting ideas! Lentils are also easy on the budget and a they’re a great vegetarian source of protein, so I hope you’ll try one of these ideas for a perfect lentil side dish or main dish!

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