A simple list of easy meals to make on vacation. When you are thinking about beach vacation meal planning these crockpot meals will help make your time in the kitchen short when you are trying to put together vacation meals on a budget.
Easy Vacation Meals
You want to eat delicious food but don’t want to spend hours in the kitchen as you do at home. These beach crockpot meals will keep your hand out of the kitchen and your toes in the sand!
It is vacation time! You have booked that beautiful house, condo or bungalow by the beach and you are planning your meal prep. Vacation should mean eating delicious food but not wanting to spend hours in the kitchen as you do at home.
Beach vacation meal planning
Don’t be the person who has to stays back at the vacation rental chopping, cooking and cleaning up while everyone else is basking in the sun, jumping in the waves or reading their favorite novel by the pool.
Pack your trusty Crock-Pot Slow Cooker and grab the ingredients for a few of these recipes and you are all set!
Easy meal to prep on vacation
Fill the crockpot in the morning (or night before depending on the recipe) and you let the crockpot do the work for you! Now go pour yourself a glass of wine, water, beer or cocktail! You deserve it.
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Beach Crockpot Meals:
- Crockpot Hashbrown, Sausage, Egg & Cheese Casserole
- Chicken Tortilla Soup
- Lasagna In The Crock Pot
- Slow Cooker Cilantro Lime Chicken Recipe <— So good with Chipotle Corn Salsa or Mexican Corn Dip
- Crockpot Chicken Corn Soup
- Bourbon Brown Sugar Crockpot Pulled Pork Recipe
- Easy Crockpot Pulled Pork Sandwiches
- Copycat Chipotle Style Carnitas Recipe
- Chipotle Copycat Roasted Chili-Corn Salsa
- Crock-Pot Slow Black Bean Soup
- Crockpot Mexican corn and chicken soup
- Crockpot Ham and Potato Soup
- Beanless Chili
- Beef Stroganoff in the slow cooker
- Bolognese served over pasta
Plus you might want to search through these recipes to see if any of them will make your beach vacation a bit tastier!
Recipes for your beach vacation
A simple list of easy meals to make on vacation. When you are thinking about beach vacation meal planning these crock pot meals will help make your time in the kitchen short when you are trying to put together vacation meals on a budget.
Crockpot Lasagna Recipe
No need to heat up your oven when you make this easy recipe for crock-pot lasagna. This slow cooker lasagna recipe is my go to meal for potlucks or a busy weeknight meal. No longer worry about clean up after baking a lasagna in the oven because this crock-pot lasagna cooks self contained and there is no spill over.
Crockpot Chicken Tortilla Soup
This delicious soup can be put together in less than 45 minutes from start to finish or you can use a little help from your crockpot and allow it to take all day for the flavors to fully develop and mature.
Crockpot Hash brown, Sausage, Egg & Cheese Casserole
An easy slow cooker breakfast meal is crockpot hash brown egg casserole. This simple breakfast casserole recipe has frozen hash browns, crumbled browned sausage, eggs and cheese. This crockpot casserole contains cream of mushroom soup and can be customized to meet your families favorite flavors.
Cilantro Lime Chicken
This is an easy and delicious cilantro lime chicken recipe. Perfect for weeknight dinners, my cilantro lime chicken crockpot recipe has simple ingredients and is full of flavors your family will love.
Crockpot Mexican Corn and Chicken Soup
This crockpot Mexican corn soup has layers of flavor that include shredded chicken, black beans, creamed corn, Mexican spices as well as a creamy broth. Top this easy slow cooker soup with your choice of fresh squeezed lime, avocado, cilantro, sour cream and jalapeño. Crockpot Mexican corn and chicken soup is sure to bring your favorite fiesta flavors to your table.
Beanless Chili
If you love chili but don't love beans, this easy beanless chili recipe is for you! Full of protein and all the flavors of a traditional chili this easy chili recipe will sure to become a family favorite.
Bolognese Sauce
This is my favorite bolognese sauce recipe and it comes out delicious every time. The slow cooker instructions will keep this easy bolognese recipe from heating up your kitchen and the sous vide bolognese sauce instructions will give you tender, delicious meat in the sauce.
Crock Pot Slow Cooker Black Bean Soup Recipe
When winter arrives warm up with a big bowl of Crock-Pot Slow Black Bean Soup. This delicious soup is vegan, vegetarian and gluten free.
Copycat Chipotle Style Carnitas Recipe
This is my interpretation of a copy cat recipe because no matter how hard I try, I can not make carnitas as well as the good folks at Chipotle. I think it is pretty close… Close enough for me to curb that craving until I can get across town and have an official carnitas bowl.
Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
One of the comfort foods of my youth are stuffed cabbage rolls, also called Halupki. This is my family's cabbage roll recipe and you will be surprised how easy they are to make. This is the ultimate comfort food from the old country.
Pizza Casserole Recipe
This is our family's pizza casserole recipe. My kids loved to have this casserole when they would visit their grandfather. Simple ingredients make a comfort food that everyone loves.
hchybinski says
What a great idea . . .I NEVER thought of brining the crock pot . . .
Christen says
THANK YOU! We are heading to the beach for spring break and I didn’t want to spend all my time in the kitchen. This list will help keep me on the beach and out of the kitchen.