Gift Idea for New Parents: A Slow Cooker & Your Best Recipes

New parents always appreciate the gift of homemade meals, but here's an idea for a gift that keeps on giving: a collection of your best slow cooker recipes and a new slow cooker, if you know your friends don't have one.

This idea comes from Anna of the blog Clementine's Produce and Provisions, via Dinner: A Love Story. When friends or family members have a baby, she gives them a booklet of her ten best slow cooker recipes, along with a slow cooker if she knows they don't own one. If they live in town, she also includes a couple frozen homemade meals.

As Anna says on her blog, "I love my dutch oven and braising, but when I was a new mom, being able to throw dinner in the crockpot in the morning was a godsend around 5pm later that day." If you want to get a little fancier, you could even make a few recipe booklets using a service like Blurb and have them at the ready for expecting friends or family members.

Get Anna's 10 best slow cooker recipes: Top 10 Slow Cooker Recipes for Parents at Clementine's Produce and Provisions

What are your best recipes or gift ideas for new parents?

Related: 15 Splendid Meals from the Slow Cooker

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Can You Share Your Favorite Healthy Slow Cooker Recipes? Good Questions

Q: I usually don't get home until around 8 or 8:30 so I just got a slow cooker because I hate starting to make dinner that late. What are some healthy recipes I can make with my slow cooker? Also, any recommendations for a good slow cooker cookbook?

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Editor: Readers, any advice, recipe recommendations, or favorite cookbooks to share with Shaina?

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10 Surprising Foods You Can Make in a Slow Cooker

It's Fall, which means it's time to pull out the ol' slow cooker! We've shared a few of our favorite slow cooker recipes in the past, including tried-and-true recipes for barbacoa beef, lemon garlic chicken, and curried vegetable stew. But did you know you can also use your slow cooker to make cheesecake? Fruit Butters? Even bread? Yes, indeed.

1 Oatmeal: We love steel cut oats, and this recipe makes magic out of them. A perfect way to wake up in the morning!
2 Souffl : this is definitely unusual, and not our favorite way to make a souffl, but it's definitely doable!
3 Baked Potato: just set it and forget it, and make a whole bunch at once!
4 Cheesecake: make a cheesecake, pan and all, inside your crock pot. Yes, it's possible!
5 Dulce de Leche: a more hands-off way to cook sweetened condensed milk.
6 Fruit Butters: our very favorite shortcut for making fruit butters. Cut them up, peel them, and pop them into the slow cooker!
7 Artichokes: it really doesn't take long to just boil an artichoke, but making them in a slow cooker is all about "the psychological pleasure of coming home after a long day to a fresh-steamed artichoke all ready to eat," as we wrote earlier.
8 Baked Apples, from No Monsters In My Bed: a perfect, easy, and delicious use for all those seasonal apples.
9 Brownies, from Martha Stewart: Who knew? Yes, sweet, sticky brownies can turn out wonderfully when baked in a slow cooker.
10 Bread, from Food.com: this is perhaps better for summertime baking, when you don't want the heat of your oven to overwhelm your home.

What unusual or surprising foods have you managed to make in your slow cooker?

Related: Back to Basics: How To Use a Slow Cooker

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