| The best thing about slow cooking is the way that | | | | meat or be the main ingredient if you are a |
| you can throw a delicious meal together with just a | | | | vegetarian looking to create a quick and simple dish. |
| few ingredients from the store cupboard. Your slow | | | | Whether haricot, black-eyed, borlotti, or lentils, beans |
| cooker will pay for itself easily. The time you save | | | | can make some fantastic slow cooker meals. |
| when you are making a meal makes it priceless. But, | | | | Fibrous Vegetables – For starters, these means |
| if you want to make slow cooking part of your | | | | good old spuds and the average kitchen has at least |
| regular diet, then it pays to have a some staples to | | | | a few potatoes lurking around in the vegetable |
| keep in your store cupboard to make meal planning | | | | rack.They are a really flexible food. Mash them, stew |
| simple. | | | | them, fry them, or chuck them in the slow cooker. |
| Beans – Beans are a very economical source of | | | | Potatoes thicken stews, soups, and meat-free dishes. |
| protein that cook very well in slow cookers . Every | | | | Potatoes and other fibrous vegetables like carrots, |
| bean has its own flavor which is increased by the | | | | swede and turnips, take a while to cook, so they can |
| herbs or spices you use to cook with them. Beans | | | | be thrown in the slow cooker with meat and can |
| can make a meal base when you cook them with | | | | cook all day. |