Things that are easy in the insta pot.

Things that are easy in the insta pot.   Since I started working harder at getting the lowest possible price for our meals, I started cooking more scratch food.   Basicly, scratch food is cheaper and more healthy because you can control the salt, sugar, trans fats, hydroginated oils and HFCS.   There are no preservatives or anti caking agents.  

I set out to find efficient scratch cooking.  I spend a little more time shopping and planning trips, so I spend less time cooking.    This methodology has to work for working parents too.   The insta pot is a great tool to cook efficiently .   Its efficient in itself :  a slow cooker, rice cooker, and a pressure cooker.   It also sautés and some make yogurt.  

Things to cook in the insta pot.

• Hard cooked eggs:  I also cook them in the oven.   
• Chilli:  you can cook the beans, sauté the meat, and cook the chili all in the same pot. 
• Vegetable bean soup.
• Chicken breast from frozen for casseroles, nachos, chicken pot pie, enchiladas.  
• Beef stew 
• Cumin spiced pork sirloin with avocado salsa.
• Pork shoulder
• No stir risotto
• Bacon, corn and potato chowder 
• Winter squash soup
• Stock
• Roasted rosemary red potatoes 
• Pot roast 
• Shredded chicken tacos 
• Ziti
• Creamy chipotle tomato soup 
• Chicken soup
• Tomato and white bean soup
• Barley mushroom stew 
• White rice
• Tuna casserole 
• An many more.....