Four crockpot recipes--help make your workweek easier!

Since I am so incredibly behind I thought I would link some crockpot recipes that I have tried in the last few weeks that have been hits at our house.  For us the crockpot is very important in the fall---football from 6-8pm 3 nights a week makes it difficult to make a meal easily and stress free.  Enter the crockpot.  We have a lot of great staple recipes from chili to gumbo but I wanted to try a few new ones.  Pinterest of course helped me out on that one.  lol

The first one is a tortellini soup.  The recipe can be found HERE.  I used reduced fat cream cheese and a while bag of spinach leaves but otherwise the recipe was left as is.  I calculated the calories using a "recipe builder" on myfitnesspal and if you have 4 servings ( very generous servings) it is 450 calories per serving.  I really liked it.  Travis wouldn't eat it however.  He didn't even try it--if he had he would have liked it I'm sure.  You could also serve over rice if you wanted to.

This picture shows the soup with sausage crumbles in it

The next one is a balsamic chicken recipe.  I love balsamic chicken and this was no exception.  The ingredients you probably have at home all the time which makes this recipe even better.  The recipe can be found HERE.  I chose to serve this over rice and we had some corn as well.  A definite keeper if you ask me.  Low calorie and very tasty.  Everyone enjoyed it---well not Brody but unless it's a chicken nugget he's generally not interested.  ;)

This next one was a huge hit.  "Cool ranch crockpot chicken"---we served it as tacos with all of the fixins.  I personally had mine on a bed of spinach leaves but the boys had taco shells.  This was super yummy and so easy.  We generally have the ingredients on hand for this one as well which makes it a winner.  You can find the recipe linked HERE.

And last but not least I tried out a new apple dessert crockpot recipe.  I honestly can't remember what we had for dinner that night but this was the dessert.  We came home from football that ngiht and the house smelled AWESOME!  You can find the recipe linked HERE.  I loved it.  Evan had seconds.  Travis wouldn't try it---he doesn't like warm apples apparently.  Weird.  ;)