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Make dinner a snap with these 10 slow cooker<\/a> meals with five ingredients or less!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n

Between work, errands, and everything else during the week, sometimes you don’t have time to spend an hour preparing a meal. With these simple slow cooker recipes, dinner time doesn’t have to be a struggle anymore. Each recipe has only five ingredients or less, so you can quickly prep and create delicious meals for the whole family. Get cooking with Blain’s Farm & Fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n

1. Cool Ranch Chicken Tacos<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

These cool ranch chicken tacos from New Leaf Wellness are a simple meal you can enjoy any night of the week. You can even freeze the ingredients and cook them later for easy meal prep.<\/p>\n\n\n

2. 5-Ingredient Easy White Chicken Chili<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

This white chicken chili from Gimme Some Oven is perfect for those cold Midwestern nights. It’s super easy and you only need five ingredients!<\/p>\n\n\n

3. 5-Ingredient Slow Cooker Chicken Breast Dinner<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

If you’re looking for a truly complete meal, this chicken breast dinner from Slow Cooker Kitchen is for you. You can just toss all the ingredients in the slow cooker and let it do it’s thing.<\/p>\n\n\n

4. Crockpot Cheesy Tortellini<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

With only five ingredients, you can make the ultimate comfort food using this recipe from the Frugal Girls. Watch the slow cooker magic happen as you combine cheese, pasta sauce, and tortellini to make some cheesy goodness.<\/p>\n\n\n

5. Easy Mexican Chicken Tortilla Soup<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

Chicken tortilla soup is an easy one-dish meal for the whole family. This recipe from Melanie Cooks only uses five ingredients, too. If you want, you can always add more toppings like shredded cheese, tortilla strips and chopped avocado.<\/p>\n\n\n

6. Slow Cooker Beef Tips and Gravy<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

This might be your new favorite slow cooker meal, thanks to Life with the Crusts Cut Off. All you need is stew beef, beef broth, French onion soup, brown gravy mix, and some seasonings. It’s best if you serve it over egg noodles and top it off with fresh green onions.<\/p>\n\n\n

7. Dr. Pepper Pulled Pork<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

Add a new flavor to pulled pork with this recipe from Moms Need to Know. The Dr. Pepper flavors the pork well, and you can’t go wrong with barbecue sauce. Let the slow cooker do its thing for about 10 hours, shred the pork, and make sure it’s cooked all the way through. That’s it!<\/p>\n\n\n

8. Easy Weeknight Lasagna in the Slow Cooker<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

While this isn’t actually lasagna, the taste is pretty close. Plus, you only need a few ingredients to make this easy meal from Around My Family Table. It’s the perfect weekend meal – the slow cooker only has to cook for about three or four hours.<\/p>\n\n\n

9. Slow Cooker Lemon & Dill Salmon<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

Make a super fast dish with this recipe from Five Dollar Dinners. It only takes about an hour to cook salmon in a slow cooker, and the lemon and dill flavors really have time to soak in. You can also make rice and veggies for side dishes for a complete meal.<\/p>\n\n\n

10. Crockpot Easiest Pork Chops<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n

To make the pork chops, you only three ingredients and your slow cooker. All you have to do it plop them in the slow cooker and let it work for seven hours. You can always add potatoes or baby carrots to the dish for an easy one-dish meal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With these simple slow cooker recipes, dinner time doesn’t have to be a struggle anymore. Each recipe has only five ingredients or less, so you can quickly prep and create delicious meals for the whole family. Get cooking with Blain’s Farm & Fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":15702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1508],"tags":[1469],"content_type":[1373],"class_list":["post-15701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-family","tag-cooking-recipes","content_type-article"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n10 Slow Cooker Meals with 5 Ingredients or Less | Blain's Farm & Fleet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With these simple slow cooker recipes, dinner time doesn't have to be a struggle anymore. 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