Healthy Crock Pot

You can go to http://recipes.rodale.com and do an advanced search for things that are lower in sodium by choosing the dietary needs for high blood pressure and the cooking style as slow cooker and see what comes up. There might not be many, but there are some.

There is another site, www.SkinnyCrockPot.com, that is based on healthy Crock Pot recipes. The even have specific recipes that are low sodium.

There aren't a lot of them around. I personally will modify recipes for my Crock Pot the best I can to try to get the sodium lower. If they call for canned soups, I make my own without the sodium in it for example. If it is a matter of adding salt, I cut it back.

Looking forward to some of the recipes that are shared in this thread! I have a couple of long days when my Crock Pot comes in VERY handy!

This is a soup I made up a while ago and it is a family favorite and what I have in crockpot today...

Ingredients
*Jennie-O Extra Lean Ground Turkey, 16 oz
Swanson Chicken Broth 99% Fat Free, 8 cup
Hidden valley ranch fiesta ranch packet, 16 serving
Water, tap, 6 cup (8 fl oz)
Garlic powder, 1 tbsp
*Onion powder, 1 tbsp
Pepper, black, 2 tsp
Mushrooms, canned, 1 cup
water chest nuts canned, 2 serving
1 cup of chopped celery
1 cup brown rice (dry)



Directions
brown ground turkey and season the way you wish...

in large crockpot add your chix broth, water, ranch packet, garlic, onion powder, pepper, canned mushrooms, celery and then one can of water chest nuts chopped...

add turkey when done cooking

in the mean time i make my rice (1 cup - which makes 2 cups) i then just let the rice sit

let your soup cook on low for at least 6 hours then add 1/2 hr before you are ready to eat!!!



Number of Servings: 6
calories 187
fat 2
protien 20

this sounds easy and i love that the ingredients aren't hard to find! how much is one serving?

I got a cookbook called Fix it and Forget it Lightly. It's entirely devoted to healthy crock pot recipes and the couple that I've tried are really tasty!

I use skinnycrockpot almost every day, great stuff!

I am making a crockpot lasagna tonight. I haven't made it before so fingers crossed it turns out. I got the recipe on facebook from crockpot girls. I just tweeked the recipe a bit to be more low cal/low fat.I could have made it more low in sodium by using low fat ricotta but I wanted to try it with the cottage cheese.I am trying to get 8 servings out of it. I will let everyone know how this turns out.

1 jar spagetti sauce 1lb 10oz (I'm using Ragu super chunky mushroom)
1 16 oz. container Daisy reduced fat cottage cheese
8 oz. of food lion oven ready lasagna noodles, broken up into pieces
16 oz 93/7 lean ground beef

I'm gonna brown the ground beef and then throw in the crock pot with everything. I wanted to use some fat free mozzerella but couldn't find any so I'm just gonna top with some regular mozz after I get it in my bowl!

Nutrition info without mozz cheese:
8 servings
295 calories
33 carbs
7 grams fat
562.5 sodium.

Thanks for the website tips! SkinnyCrockPot.com seems especially great! JUST what I needed!!!!!!!! Thanks again!