Slow Cooker + Desserts Bundle: 100 Budget Recipes for $9.97

Two of my most-used cookbooks sit side by side in my kitchen: the slow cooker dinners and the easy desserts. One handles the weeknight when I am out of the house all day. The other handles the moment the kids ask whether there is anything sweet. Together they cover most of what a family eats in a week.

So I put them in one bundle. You get 50 Slow Cooker Dinners and 50 Quick & Easy Desserts, 100 recipes in total, for $9.97. Bought separately the two books come to $39.98, so the bundle is the price of a fast food lunch for two.

What you get

• 50 Slow Cooker Dinners (53 pages): pot roasts, shredded beef, chicken dinners, chilis, soups, beans and pasta sauces
• 50 Quick & Easy Desserts (53 pages): cookies, bars, brownies, cakes, puddings, crisps and no-bake treats
• the cost per serving on every recipe, in plain words
• ingredient lists with real quantities and short numbered methods
• one money-saving tip on every single recipe
• both PDFs as an instant download, letter size, print friendly

A taste of each book

From the slow cooker book:

• Shredded Beef Tacos: $1.85 per serving
• Cheesy Taco Chili: $1.30 per serving
• Slow Cooker Red Beans and Rice: $0.85 per serving

From the dessert book:

• Peanut Butter Cookies: $0.15 per cookie
• Chocolate Sheet Cake: $0.35 per serving
• Stovetop Vanilla Pudding: $0.35 per serving

Why I built the books this way

I got tired of recipes that never mention what they cost. A recipe can look cheap and quietly require four specialty ingredients. So every page in both books shows the cost per serving, and every page has a tip for spending even less. Prices are estimates at budget grocery stores, so yours may differ a little.

Nothing in either book needs special equipment beyond a slow cooker and a couple of baking pans, and nothing calls for alcohol.

Making the most of both

A good week looks like this. Sunday, put a pot roast or a taco chili in the cooker. Cook the dessert you picked while it simmers, so the oven is working too. By Monday you have dinner and a plate of cookies, and you spent about what a single takeout order would cost.

The price is $9.97, and the delivery is instant. Print what you want and keep the rest on your tablet.