5 amazing freezer-to-slow cooker weeknight dinners to get you through the next week

Cooktop Cove: 5 amazing freezer-to-slow cooker weeknight dinners to get you through the next week

By Jessica Chen

What if....you can have your family dinners planned for you, have delicious recipes you can rely on, and have extra time left over to spend with your family and friends? What if I told you this would come out to $2.50 per meal per person? Below are just a couple weeknight dinners (all of which require at most 15 mins max prep time). All the recipes, along with one shopping list for the entire week, is available in Cooktop Cove's taste-tested printable meal plan kit.

These kits, designed for a family of 4, include some of our best recipes, hand-picked into convenient weekly meal plans. They also help support the livelihood of our recipe developers and chefs who tirelessly work to test recipes and save you time, money, and disappointment from trying recipes that don't work.

1. Chicken Teriyaki

"I love how I can prep this freezer meal plan 2 to 4 weeks in advance," commented one reader. Get the full recipe (and 19 others) in Cooktop Cove's taste-tested printable meal plan kit, available for purchase here.

2. Cranberry pork chops

One reader made this recipe from Cooktop Cove's meal plan kit and told us, "This is a go-to in our house now! So easy and delicious!" Get the full recipe (and 19 others) in Cooktop Cove's taste-tested printable meal plan kit, available for purchase here.

3. Pepper beef

Thin slices of tender beef with bell peppers. It's hard to go wrong with this take-out favorite. Get the full recipe (and 19 others) in Cooktop Cove's taste-tested printable meal plan kit, available for purchase here.

4. Shredded chipotle chicken tacos

Freezer meals don't mean you can't have taco night! Just remember not to freeze the tortillas ;). Get the full recipe (and 19 others) in Cooktop Cove's taste-tested printable meal plan kit, available for purchase here.

5. Brown sugar beef

You might think that sweet juicy beef can't possibly be a freezer meal, but it can. When we tested it in our test kitchen, everyone couldn't get enough of it. Get the full recipe (and 19 others) in Cooktop Cove's taste-tested printable meal plan kit, available for purchase here.

6-20. Be sure to check out the meal plan here for the other 15 awesome freezer-to-slow cooker recipes.