Menu planning worked out well this week, except for one minor mishap. The plan was for a menu with the following main courses:

• Roast (ended up being pork roast)
• Meatloaf
• Quiche Lorraine
• Beans
• Enchiladas

The first three days went great, except for the almost no dinner incident on Monday. Dinner was roast and mashed potatoes, but the slower cooker wasn’t cooking very fast. I don’t have a lot of experience using it, so I switched dinner to the oven to finish cooking the roast. It turned out great! The Meatloaf and Quiche went as planed with no mishaps. I even found a new recipe for my crust that I like better than what I’ve been using.

Yesterday the plan was for beans in the slow cooker. Hadn’t I already tried this earlier in the week? Apparently my slow cooker is the slowest one in the world because they weren’t ready for dinner that evening, but it wasn’t a complete failure. We had leftovers from the roast and mashed potatoes. Tonight we’ll have beans, and the enchiladas will be moved to Saturday or Sunday. It really turned out to be a good thing that I had the two bad experiences with the slow cooker. I now know that if I’m planning to use it to cook a meal, it will need to be started the evening before on low all night. All in all, it was a good plan; I’ll just give my slower cooker a little more time to do the job.

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