10 Old-Fashioned Dump-and-Go Slow Cooker Dinners for Seniors Living Alone (Set It & Forget It)

📖 Folks kept asking me to write these down — so I did. All 100+ of my diner recipes and secrets are in one little book, "Nancy's Diner Secrets": 👉 https://nancysdiner.com Dig that slow cooker out of the cupboard — it's about to become the best friend a person cooking for one ever had. You dump everything in of a morning, turn one dial, and walk away — no browning, no standing over the stove, no heavy pan to scrub. Eight hours later supper has cooked itself tender, and there's one pot to rinse. After 35 years behind a diner counter in West Plains, Missouri, here are 10 dump-and-go slow cooker dinners, sized for one or two and cheap as can be. Beef stew, chicken and gravy, ham and bean soup, a whole chicken with no liquid at all, pulled pork, chili, pot roast and more. Stay to the end for number two — the supper more people asked me how to make than any other in 35 years — and number one, the simplest pot on the list and the one that means the most. Pull up a stool. The coffee's hot. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 — The dump-and-go secret 2:01 — #10 Dump-and-go beef stew 4:02 — #9 Chicken & gravy over noodles 5:38 — #8 Ham & bean soup 7:18 — #7 Whole chicken, no liquid 9:00 — #6 Three-ingredient pulled pork 11:15 — #5 Set-it-and-forget-it chili 12:55 — #4 Creamy chicken & rice (the right way) 14:29 — #3 Smothered Swiss steak 16:13 — #2 Melt-in-your-mouth Sunday pot roast 18:17 — #1 The one that matters most Tell me down below — are you cooking for one these days, or two? And which of these did your mother or grandmother used to make? I read every comment with my afternoon coffee. If this helped, subscribe and come back to the counter. There's always a fresh pot of coffee on. Take care of yourself. 🍲 ABOUT THIS CHANNEL Warm, old-fashioned cooking secrets and diner wisdom from 35 years behind the counter — comfort food, one-pot suppers, forgotten recipes, and the know-how nobody writes down. Made for folks who remember when a home-cooked meal meant something.