Crockpot Italian Sausage

5 sweet  Italian sausage links
1 onion, sliced
Small sweet peppers, sliced
 1 tsp each garlic powder and onion powder
14 oz. can diced tomatoes

Put all ingredients into freezer bag. Freeze until ready to use.
Thaw the day before you want to use. Cook in crockpot on low 6-8 hours.
Serve on warm hogie rolls.

Teriyaki Chicken

4 frozen chicken breasts
1 can pineapple chunks, juice and all
1 c. Teriyaki sauce
1 red onion, chopped
3 carlic cloves, minced
3 carrots, chopped

Put all ingredients into freezer baggie. Freeze until ready to use.
Thaw the day before use. Cook on low in crockpot for 6-8 hours.
Serve over rice.

Beef Veggie Soup

This recipe is for 1 freezer crockpot meal. I like to double it since I'm going through the trouble once.

1 lb. Stew meat
3 carrots, chopped
1 onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, minced
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 can corn
2 cans stewed tomatoes
1 c. frozen green beans
1 c. frozen lima beans
1 c. frozen okra
1 T dried parsley
Seasoned salt, garlic powder, salt, pepper
2 T Worshershire sauce
2 bullion cubes

Put all in freezer bag. Freeze until ready to use.

Thaw the day before when you want to use. Put contents in crockpot along with 4 c. Water for 6-8 hours on low.

Tortellini Salad

refrigerated cheese tortellini
cucumber, peeled and cubed
cherry tomatoes, halved
feta cheese
black olives
1/2 c. or so... Italian Dressing OR olive oil, Good Seasons Italian Seasonings (I used a little of both because I only had a little Italian dressing)
salt, pepper, garlic salt, red pepper flakes, according to taste

Cook cheese tortellini according to directions. Rinse with cool water. Mix all ingredients togethe add seasonings according to your taste. Refrigerate until ready to eat.

Berry Trifle

This is very good! The lemon almond syrup add delicious flavor to this. Perfect colors for the 4th of July!

pound cake- store bought or homemade

Lemon Almond Syrup:
1/4 c. sugar
1/4 c. water
1/4 c. lemon juice
1/2 tsp. almond extract
Bring sugar, water, lemon juice to boil just so sugar dissolves. Then add almond extract. Let cool.

8 oz. Cream cheese, softened
3/4 c. sugar
big tub Cool Whip
Beat together cream cheese and sugar. Fold in Cool Whip.

strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, etc.

Slice pound cake into 1 in. pieces. Dip each piece into syrup. Then cube each cake slice into pieces. Put half of cake cubes in trifle dish, top with half of Cool Whip mixture, then half of the berries. Repeat order: cake, Cool Whip, then berries on top.