Grain Free Crockpot Recipe Roundup | Health, Home, & Happiness

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Once you?re in the habit of using your crockpot, it?s a huge time saver and makes you feel so accomplished- you?ve got a hot dinner (or breakfast!) ready and waiting no matter what crazy things come up during the day. ?I often hear people say that they love the idea of using a crockpot, but aren?t sure what to do with it. Here is a collection of recipes to get you started!

Grain and Gluten Free Crockpot Recipes

This is a super simple way to make beautiful golden chicken stock.

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Beef Stock by Our Nourishing Roots is beautiful! Often beef bones can be found very inexpensively, we used a lot of beef broth when starting GAPS.

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Chicken Curry by Wellfed Homestead brings out new flavors from typical crockpot meals.

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Cold Beet soup is made in the crockpot, it?s perfect for the summer (put the crockpot in the basement or on the back porch) because it?s delicious served cold and topped with kefir.

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White bean chili is not only a nice different flavor, but it?s also less expensive since it?s loaded with protein rich but inexpensive navy beans.

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Did you know Custard can be made in the crockpot? It makes beautifully steamed custard, without having to babysit the stove as you do with conventional custard. ?See Pumpkin Custard here.

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Red chili is a great way to hide liver, and is a favorite for feeding a crowd.

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An?Easy Crockpot Meal from Kelly the Kitchen Kop tells you exactly what to do when you have a frozen roast in the morning but need to not think about dinner!

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Fennel Chicken with Orange is absolutely beautiful!

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Slow cooker Apple Pie Filling by Empowered Sustinance with a creamy coconut milk topping.

Lamb and Kale Curry, Saag Gosht, by The Polivka Family also explains what curry really means.

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Cook your butternut squash in the slow cooker as well. This hard winter squash is inexpensive and used often in the GAPS diet.

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?Barbeque Slow Cooker Short Ribs by Homemade Mommy is a delicious take on BBQ!

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Perpetual broth by Nourished Kitchen is another way to do broth so you always have some warm and on hand. I like this especially if the kids have colds, it adds some steam to the air as well.

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Slow cooker applesauce by Oh Lardy! is something the kids can help with and is sure to be a hit.

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Crockpot Roast in Ancho Chili Sauce by Mommypotamus uses beautiful ancho chilis- they?re just?gorgeous!

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Mama Baby Love has an entire freezer-to-crockpot e-book with free sample recipes available too!

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Health Nut Nation?s Buttery Pepper encrusted Pot roast looks delicious!

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Crock Pot Applebutter- When you find inexpensive apples, allow your applesauce to cook down into apple butter, this is a pleasant no-sugar-added spread for pancakes or waffles.

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Pork and?Sauerkraut?over Cauli Mash by Holistic Squid is an all-in-one dish that sounds delicious!

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Baked Apples are a perfect desert or breakfast for harvest time.

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Puerto Rico teeters on fiscal edge over pensions

A retiree carries a sign that reads in Spanish ?Do not play with my pension? during a protest outside the government pension headquarters in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Puerto Rico is confronting what economists and financial analysts say is a ticking fiscal time bomb: A public pension system with a $37.3 billion unfunded liability that must be addressed soon, at a time when the U.S. island territory's government has little money to spare, or thousands of retirees could start to see benefit cuts. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

A retiree carries a sign that reads in Spanish ?Do not play with my pension? during a protest outside the government pension headquarters in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Puerto Rico is confronting what economists and financial analysts say is a ticking fiscal time bomb: A public pension system with a $37.3 billion unfunded liability that must be addressed soon, at a time when the U.S. island territory's government has little money to spare, or thousands of retirees could start to see benefit cuts. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

People protest outside the government pension headquarters in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. Puerto Rico is confronting what economists and financial analysts say is a ticking fiscal time bomb: A public pension system with a $37.3 billion unfunded liability that must be addressed soon. Nearly three years ago, former Gov. Fortuno established a committee charged with solving the pension fund's fiscal problems, noting that the overall system was paying $679 million more a year than what it received in contributions. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) ? Office clerk Lillian Marti hopes to retire one day with a decent pension. Now, like many other employees of Puerto Rico's government, she's beginning to fear she might not get that chance.

"Of course, I'm worried," said the 61-year-old, who has worked for the government for 20 years.

Some experts are calling for cutting benefits to help Puerto Rico confront what economists and financial analysts say is a ticking fiscal time bomb: A public pension system with a $37.3 billion unfunded liability that must be addressed soon, at a time when the U.S. island territory's government has little money to spare.

The unfunded liability, which is spread across three public pension systems, is almost four times the annual government budget for the island of nearly 4 million people. Only a few much larger U.S. states, such as California and Illinois, face bigger unfunded liabilities.

Puerto Rico's problem stems from decades of neglect as politicians facing budget deficits were unwilling to set aside money for the growing ranks of retired police, firefighters, teachers and office workers. Now many analysts and even some government officials concede it is the most critical issue facing the administration of newly elected Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla.

"This is the most important financial issue right now," said Gustavo Velez, a prominent Puerto Rican economist. "They have to find a solution. They have to create a plan in the next three months."

Velez and others suggest that Puerto Rico should immediately reduce benefits, raise the retirement age and demand increased contributions from current employees, ideas that don't sit well with people like Marti.

"Imagine, I'm going to be left without a big chunk of money that I contributed," she said.

Garcia, who defeated the incumbent with support of the public employee unions, has formed a committee to come up with suggestions. He has not yet said how he will address the situation. Simply taking the money from the island's general fund is out of the question: Puerto Rico has a projected deficit this year of $1.2 billion.

"It's a very complex situation," Garcia said at recent news conference. "We will respect the pensions of those who contributed and built this country."

The island only recently emerged from a six-year recession and the unemployment rate is 14 percent, higher than any state. Manufacturing, the largest segment of the economy, has been in decline for years. Former Gov. Luis Fortuno laid off more than 20,000 government workers. His predecessor, Anibal Acevedo Vila, was forced to partially shut down the government for two weeks in May 2006 in a standoff over budget talks with the legislature.

In the meantime, the pension system's deficit kept growing.

"It's not that we're bad off. We're broke," said Miguel Morales, a consultant to a permanent committee charged with regulating the pension system. "The concern is that there will come a day when the government cannot respond and everyone will be left out on the street."

Nearly all of the problem centers on two pension systems ? one for teachers and one for other government workers ? that stopped accepting new beneficiaries in January 2000. They serve more than 273,000 active and retired government workers.

Those initially allowed workers to retire at age 55 with 25 years of service or at age 58 with 10 years of service. In 1990, legislators made significant changes, reducing benefits and increasing the retirement age from 55 to 65 years for newly hired workers.

As liabilities mounted, legislators scrapped that system 13 years ago, creating a new system that is more like a 401(k)-type plan in which workers must make their own contributions.

The newer defined-contribution plan is considered financially stable. But the older plan will have used up its assets "within several years," Karen Krop, a senior director of public finance at Fitch Ratings.

If the system does collapse, the island's general fund is supposed to honor those collections. "But the general fund doesn't have that money," Velez said.

Nearly three years ago, former Gov. Fortuno established a committee charged with solving the pension fund's problems, noting that the overall system was paying $679 million more a year than what it received in contributions.

"Absent any corrective measures, the systems could be left without funds in or before 10 years," he stated in a March 2010 executive order.

That study led lawmakers to increase employee contributions to the system and they transferred $162 million into the retirement system so that officials could buy a capital bond expected to generate $1.5 billion in 40 years. But it wasn't enough to solve the problem.

Puerto Rico's public pension problems also have damaged the island's bond ratings, which remain significantly lower than any U.S. state, raising the island's cost of borrowing.

In December, Moody's lowered Puerto Rico's credit rating, stating in part that it doesn't have a clear idea as to how and when the government will solve the retirement systems' problems. It warned of an additional credit rating downgrade if no reforms are undertaken.

Complicating the territory's financial situation is its $69 billion public debt.

"Puerto Rico debt levels are well, well in excess of what we see in other states," Krop of Fitch Ratings said.

Most states have an average 3 percent of tax-supported debt as a percentage of personal income. Nine percent is considered high. Puerto Rico is at 80 percent, Krop said. The per capita debt is more than $12,000 per person, excluding pension, she added.

Given those numbers, Marti said she doesn't believe she'll have enough money to retire. She went back to work in part to collect more Social Security, but even then, she said the federal fiscal situation doesn't give her much hope.

"Things are not easy," she said. "You don't know what's going to happen with Social Security either."

Associated Press

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Carbon for Android Backs Up Your Phone, No Root Required

Android (4.0+): When we last discussed Carbon, it was still in beta and required root. Now, the app has emerged from beta with a ton of new features, is available at Google Play, and doesn't require root to do any of the awesome things it can do.

Carbon is the work of Koushik "Koush" Dutta, the same developer behind ClockworkMod, one of our favorite Android utilities. This newest project is a sharp-looking backup and syncing tool for your Android device, one that can take your apps, app data (saved games, preferences, and so on), contacts, and other important data and save it to your phone's SD card or your desktop.

The app comes in two flavors: the free version backs up all of your data and stores it on your SD card or your desktop. For a $5 USD in-app upgrade, the premium version ditches the ads and unlocks a ton of additional features, including the ability to perform automatic hands-free backups on a schedule you set, and the ability to save your data to Dropbox, Google Drive, or Box.net in addition to your SD card or desktop. The premium version also allows you to sync two Android devices, so moving to a new phone is a snap.

The only caveat is that Carbon doesn't work on Motorola devices. Koush explains that Motorola phones "have a bug that break Android's backup mechanism," one that Motorola/Google will have to fix. He does note that if you have a Motorola phone and Carbon does work for you, he wants to hear from you. You can grab the app at the Google Play link below.

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Enteraction inks Rank; Zynga Poker Israeli malware - Online ...

January 31, 2013

UK betting operator Rank Group Plc has inked a two-year deal to utilize the GameShaper+ platform offered by social gaming provider enteraction. The GameShaper+ platform will allow Rank to incorporate social games from a variety of developers via mobile and on Facebook, and centrally manage user, marketing and product data as well as wallet functionality. The deal will start with enteraction integrating Rank?s X Factor and Britain?s Got Talent social bingo games. It will also enable Rank to integrate the new X Factor Role Playing Game, Rank?s first stab at a non-casino or bingo-style social game. Rank Group?s head of social and mobile Lee O?Donovan said the company was looking for a platform ?that allowed for the quick deployment of multiple products with a single point of data management.?

US-based social sports betting outfit BetBomb.com has added poker to its flagship product. At least, it claims to have combined ?poker style wagering with sports betting,? although there?s precious little mention of poker to be found on their website, beyond the addition of paid tickets to the 2013 World Series of Poker on the list of prizes to be won ? via sportsbetting. What the hell, we can play this game, too? BetBomb put the hurt locker on your sports betting opponents by combining sports betting with the thrill of dismantling explosive devices. (See website for nonexistent details.)

Speaking of things that go boom, Zynga Poker may have become a tool in the hands of Israel?s cyber enemies. The Times of Israel reported that up to 16k Israeli poker players were hit by a Trojan horse going by the name Poker Agent. The Trojan infiltrated Zynga?s popular free-play poker app with the intention of purloining players? login and credit card info. Anti-virus outfit ESET claims it has been tracking the Israel-specific Trojan for a year, and director Ronen Moas said he ?wouldn?t be surprised if this attack turned out to be part of the international cyber terror campaign being conducted against Israel daily.? (Speaking of terror, have you seen Zynga?s stock price? Ba-dum!)

GSN?s interactive division GSN Digital has launched GSN ChaChingo Bingo on GSN.com. A ?reimagined? version of Bingo Blitz, ChaChingo Bingo players are awarded one bingo card per hour, with a jackpot starting at $1,500 and rising $50 each hour until someone matches all five numbers. GSN Digital president Jeff Karp said the new game offered players ?more chances to win ? without spending a dime in the process.?

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