Putting Recipes Together for Daughter

 While my computers were not working,  I went through my slow cooker cookbooks and file folders to try to find some that my older daughter's family might like. She and her husband work very long hours and often get home at 6 pm with two tired and hungry kids. I have a stack of these cookbooks.  It takes time to go through them.   I found that the Betty Crocker Cookbook of Slow Cooking had very usable recipes.  I don't want "weird" recipes with weird ingredients.  No mackerel please. I want inexpensive ingredients that are easy to find.  I didn't want recipes that are just emptying a whole lot of cans into the crockpot.    How is that different from just heating them up?  Ok maybe the flavors mix more but that surely is a more expensive way of doing it.  I don't want ones where you have to be home to change the heat settings.  It has to be FAST and EASY.  Other cookbooks had hardly a recipe that I would want to try.  I guess those should go to Goodwill.

I printed off copies of recipes I liked and trimmed them and glued them to cardstock.  I even rubber stamped some food still life images onto them.  I slipped them into these clear plastic folders for a 3 ring notebook.  I went through some of the recipes I had saved in file folders. I hope that some of the skillet recipes might work for them.  I made some separate index cards with just a list of ingredients that you can take out of the plastic and put in your purse for shopping.  I numbered them to make it easy to put back in the right place. I also put in other pages and cut out recipes in the clear folders.  So I started out with beautiful looking pages and then pretty soon I was squeezing cut out recipes into the pages!  I put a few "company" type dishes in there but most are for quick family dinners.

My mother said she'd be interested in good slow cooker recipes also  so I will be copying some and putting them together for her.

I checked out the slow cookers at Target today.  I like it that some you can lock down the cover so it doesn't slip or leak when you take a dish with you.  I wasn't sure about the electronics for setting the heat and time.  I worry that if that isn't working you won't be able to use it.  I guess that is what you worried about with sewing machines.