[Cara Reynolds – SUM180 Community Manager]

Many of us haul out our slow cookers to fix easy comfort foods when the weather turns cool. Who doesn’t love the effortless convenience of crockpot cooking?

Here’s a reason to use our slow cookers more regularly.

If you’re an average family of four that eats out regularly (upwards of $50 for dinner for the entire family), swapping a slow cooker meal (at a cost of $2 per person) for a trip to a restaurant just *once* a week would save you $2,135 per year. That’s pretty serious savings.