Whole Chicken in the crock pot

Tonight I am making one of my family's favorite meals for dinner. Chicken, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy. I will admit that I am using a box of stuffing mix and gravy mix. I always use instant mashed potatoes because really, who has time for real ones. Once a month we buy food from Angel Food Ministries so this is why I have the packaged stuff. Usually I will make crock pot stuffing. Since this is an easy dinner I just wanted to let you in on one of my favorite meal planning tricks.

A 7-8lb chicken is only around $8 and will feed my family for 4 meals. Tonight we will slice the breast for dinner and then i will shred the rest and put in ziplock bags to freeze. In the next couple weeks I plan to use it for chicken alfredo, chicken noodle soup, chicken pot pie, and chicken salad. This is also great in the summer time so you don't heat up the house with your oven

This is all you need to do:
Thaw the chicken if frozen. Rinse and dry it well.
Season it how you like. I just use salt and pepper.
Put the chicken in the crock pot and cook on low for 8 hours. I usually flip it halfway through but its not necessary.


And Ta-da! You have a fully cooked chicken without a lot of work.

My chicken after 5 hours of cooking.