Do you use your crock pot more......

I use my crock pot mainly in the winter months. I do use it occasionally in the summer. I like to make a hot soup for cold days. It does help to keep the gas bill down since I like to cook my soup all day long.

I use it more in the winter when I want nice hot meals. In the summer I eat a lot of cold stuff. I used to eat a lot of frozen dinners from the microwave in the summer until I found out how much salt there was in them, so now I eat salads and sauteed vegetables and stuff. In the winter I make chili, soups like navy beans and ham, stuff like that. In the summer hot foods like soup just don't appeal much to me.

All year, but I too love it for when we have things to do that evening and I won't have much time for dinner.

I don't really plan crock pot meals, I plan our meals around our budget, and certain things are just crock pot dinners like soups and stews, spaghetti sauces and meatballs, things like that. Whenever we have something of that nature, we use the crockpot.

well, we probably use it a bit more in the winter because I love hot soup, but we were just beginning to experiment with things like roasting chicken in it (low water crockpot cooking) before we went on the diet.

I probably use it slightly more in the winter, because in the summer we often have the grill as an option. I love grilled food, and that is another way to keep from heating up the house. But I do use the crock pot in the summer too. I actually have 3 crockpots in three different sizes. I always use crockpots for parties, and in the summer you can bet I have some baked beans in the crock pot at every party. During winter parties I will sometimes have all three of them going at once.