Next Week's Meal Plan: 5 Easy Slow Cooker Dinners — Next Week's Meal Plan

My new mantra is "just get me to October!" September has been busy with back-to-school events (Parents' Night, Harvest Fest) and lots of solo parenting. Here's the magic of meal plans, though — when a calendar week is hectic I can use meal planning to make one part of each day easier. (In this case dinner.)

This week's meal plan includes one slow cooker recipe we stashed in the freezer a few weeks back, plus three new but ultra-easy recipes that everyone will love. There's still our regularly scheduled pizza on Friday, which uses up leftovers but doesn't use the slow cooker. Here's how a week of slow cooker dinners is making my week easier.

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