Slow Cooker Recipes for Fall

Make these tasty slow cooker recipes using your favorite fall fruits and vegetables.

Fall is the time for warm, hearty meals—and what better way to prepare them than by using your slow cooker? Simmer these fall ingredient (think pumpkins, apples and squash) slow cooker recipes in your pot, and you’ll stay warm into the winter. Ingredients: 4-5 cooking apples, peeled and sliced 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed 1/2 cup flour  3/4 cup rolled oats 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 4 tablespoons butter, softened Directions: Lightly butter the Crock-Pot and lay the apple slices at the bottom of the pot. Combine the sugar, flour, rolled oats, nutmeg and cinnamon, and cut in the butter. Sprinkle the topping over the base of apples. Cook on low or auto for 3-5 hours. Ingredients: 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive…

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Frozen Pumpkin Banana Tarts for the Family

Check out this step-by-step recipe for pumpkin pie tarts with a frozen twist.

It's the time of year for pumpkin and spice! Here is an easy, low fat recipe for a frozen treat that's a little different - Pumpkin Banana Cream Tarts with Raspberry, made with these simple ingredients: Frozen Pumpkin Banana Tarts with Raspberry 6 ready-made graham cracker tart shells 15 oz. can Pumpkin Puree 6 oz. container fat free Banana yogurt Raspberry Jam Fresh Raspberries for decor 2 Tablespoons Cinnamon 1/2 tsp Nutmeg 3 Tablespoons Sugar or Sugar Substitute Whipped Cream   Follow the step-by-step instructions in the photo gallery to make these delicious and festive treats.

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Kids Make Halloween Fun Again

From pumpkin-picking to choosing costumes, the fall holiday is a family affair.

I used to think Autumn was my favorite season. I now look at it more as a precursor to winter, my least favorite time of year, and a start to anxiety about shorter days and colder weather. Summer has once again been named as my favorite, but alas here I sit a good three seasons away from it. Still, there are a few great things about fall. Football, that is pretty great. And, this weekend we did the nearly only other thing I find great about it: picked our pumpkins. I think the best part of any season is its traditions. Just like we go pick out a tree at Christmas time, or dye eggs for Easter, we also go pick out our pumpkins, in some grand way, each Halloween. Since having children, Halloween has become a lot more fun once again. In my 20s…

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