I invested in one of these last week… a CrockPot lunch heater.

There are two advantages with this… First of all, It “only” contains 20 oz which helps me with my portion control which is one of my problems I have since I only eat once a day. And 20 oz is more than enough for a meal. Secondly, it keeps my food warm so if I get a call and can’t finish my food, it will still be warm when I can eat whatever is left of it.
I tried it yesterday at work and it is certainly God’s gift to EMS. Everyone working “on the go” should have one of these. This particular one has a wall plug so I have a converter to a cigaret plug for the car/truck as well so I can have it with me if I only work short shifts or out on deployments, but there are once out there made for cars. I am so excited about it!

So with that inspiration in mind I went home this morning to do some meal prepping. I did two dishes, first the Swedish dish Flying Jacob (Flygande Jakob). It is a casserole with chicken, bacon, banana and peanuts. I have though throughout the years added pineapple and curry to my casserole.

This is one of my absolute favorite dishes!

4 chicken breasts
1 package bacon
1 banana
chili sauce
half & half
peanuts
curry
pineapple chunks

Dice the chicken into equal sizes. Cook in a skillet, flavor with the curry. Put the chicken on the bottom of a casserole. Cut the bacon into dices and cook until desired crispiness. Put the bacon over the chicken. Slice the banana and pineapple chunks and put over the chicken and bacon and spread the peanuts over.
Mix one bottle of chili sauce with double amount of half and half until desired texture and pour it over the casserole. Put in the oven 425F for 25 minutes… there you go! It is usually served with rice.

You can add and remove spices as you wish, as well how thick you want the sauce to be is about how much half and half you use.

This batch made me four food containers for the freezer plus my lunch today! So what I will do is the night before put one container in the fridge to thaw and that morning pour it in the crock pot, bring it to work and heat it up and I will always have a hot meal. Yes I can put it in the microwave but then I’ll have to reheat it again if I can’t finish all at once… and I don’t have to wait for the microwave either…

The second dish was a recipe I found online. I had a lot of ground beef in the freezer that I wanted to use so I googled and found it.

What I like with CrockPot is that it is just to mix and wait. Here I cooked the ground beef first, added tomato sauce, pasta sauce, onion and water. Made a mix in a bowl of cream cheese, cottage cheese and sour cream. Put all this and raw elbow pasta in the CrockPot, waited 3 hours. Put Mozarella and Cheddar cheese and cooked for another 15 minutes and voila!

Put it in the containers so it is ready when ever I am heading to work or just getting hungry. This was a pretty big batch and I got much more out of it than I expected, a total of 10 meals!

Add to that the four containers I got with Flying Jacob, I will have no problem with food for the next two weeks at least!

I seriously am in no lack of food. And thinking about it from a financial standpoint, how much money I save doing this way! It will be amazing. I have bread in the freezer, cereal with milk if I ever get hungry for something even easier. I am actually ver proud of myself right now! Even all the dishes are done and put away! I rock!