Slow cooker meals

Slow cooker meals are the perfect solution for a busy or low energy day. Just pile your ingredients into the slow cooker and come back a few hours later to a home cooked meal. The recipes on this page also hold up well in the freezer, making them perfect for batch cooking. Cool and transfer your leftovers to the freezer, and you'll have extra meals ready to go on your next busy night.

Extended chili

Chili is a staple budget meal, and this one is made even more affordable and hardy with the addition of lentils. The recipe is flexible enough to use up any number of vegetables and beans, or be doubled if you'd like to make extra to freeze.

Slow cooker pulled pork

Pulled pork is a versatile southern barbecue made with a low cost cut of meat called pork shoulder (or pork butt). You can cook up a heap over it over the course of an afternoon, and eat it in sandwiches, nachos, burritos and rice for days.

Black bean soup

This simple and tasty vegetarian soup is surprisingly filling, and packed with protein from black beans. It can be made with inexpensive pantry staples, and leftovers usually taste even better the next day.

Chicken corn chowder

A rich and hearty comfort food that can be made with fresh or canned ingredients. Cook up a big batch on a cold winter's day and enjoy a warm bowl of stick-to-your-ribs goodness.

Harvest chicken soup

This recipe is geared towards using the canned goods and root vegetables that often come in fall food hampers, but it's inexpensive, delicious, and satisfying any time of year. 

Food is Too Expensive! was funded by the City of Saskatoon through our Healthy Yards partnership, the Cyril Capling Trust Fund of the College of Agriculture and Bioresources, and the Department of Plant Sciences. Focus group research to inform this work was collected by CHEP. Thank you all for helping us make healthy food more accessible!