While we can’t help you with your kids’ growth rate, we can maybe help you, and ourselves, by providing you with these 25 Yummy Slow-Cooker Recipes To Help Dinner Go Smoother. Let’s pull out those crock pots, fill them up with good stuff, and get back to our regularly scheduled programs. After only about 20-30 minutes of prep time, we have about 6-8 hours to complete our to-do lists before dinnertime arrives; this time we will be prepared! Note: There are a few meat-free recipes here; They are marked (MF) for all of our herbivores out there.