What do you think?
Rate this book
Fix-It and Forget-It Cooking for Two: 150 Small-Batch Slow Cooker Recipes
You want wholesome and delicious meals but you just don’t have the time to prepare them after a long day at work. Most slow cooker cookbooks offer recipes for a crowd and there are only two of you, or maybe the two of you plus a baby or toddler, and you don’t want a whole week’s worth of leftovers taking up space in the fridge. This slow cooker cookbook is different. The perfect gift for newlyweds, elderly couples, or anyone who is too busy to spend hours futzing in the kitchen, these recipes will put just the right amount of home-cooked food on your table with shockingly little time and effort on your part. You can trust these recipes because they are— Collected from some of America’s best home cooksTested in real-life settingsCarefully selected from thousands of recipes Learn what size slow cooker to purchase, discover tips for easy prep and cleanup, and find scrumptious recipes such Chicken ParmigianaButtery German Chocolate FudgeTaco Bean SoupWhite Bean and Chicken ChiliPoppy Seed Tea BreadAnd many more!
521 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 2, 2018
360 people are currently reading
129 people want to read
About the author
Hope Comerford
68 books11 followersI'm a wife and a mother to a beautiful 7 year old and active 4 year old . I love to cook, but as crazy busy as my life is, the slow cooker is my life-saver! My passion for developing recipes started at a young age when my grandma taught me and my cousins to cook. During my college years, I began to experiment on my own and as I entered the work force, my creativity really developed. My second cookbook, The Gluten-Free Slow Cooker will be released on Oct. 1, but it available for presale wherever books are sold now. My first cookbook, Slow Cooker Recipes 10 Ingredients or Less and Gluten-Free is available for sale online. In addition to writing cookbooks, I teach Elementary Music, I'm a Young Living Essential Oils Educator and a blogger. Am I crazy busy...or just crazy? Yes, but I love living my life the way I'm living it!
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 13 of 13 reviews
August 24, 2025
This series of slow-cooker cookbooks can be hit or miss; unfortunately, Fix-It and Forget-It Cooking for Two falls in the latter camp. For starters, at least half, but probably more, make more than two servings. If a couple is making four servings anyway, wouldn’t any slow-cooker cookbook do?
While some of the recipes are keepers — particularly those by the editor, Hope Comerford — most are just meh.
While some of the recipes are keepers — particularly those by the editor, Hope Comerford — most are just meh.
February 23, 2021
According to the biographical blurb in the back of the book, Hope Comerford is a "mom, wife, elementary music teacher, blogger, recipe developer, public speaker, ALM Zone Fitness Motivator, Young Living Essential Oils essential oil enthusiast/educator, and published author." She also has "a severe gluten intolerance" the management of which is reflected in her recipes. Those recipes remind me very much of Sandra Lee, the Food Network star who won an Emmy for her programme "Semi-Homemade." Lee's concept was to use seventy per cent pre-packaged prepared foods and thirty percent fresh. I didn't like the concept and I didn't watch her show. The recipes in Comerford's book are of the same sort; they call for store-bought roll-our pie crust, canned beans, canned enchilada sauce, canned spaghetti sauce, packaged chicken gravy, canned guacamole salsa, canned pork and beans, canned sweet cherries, and cheesecake instant pudding mix. There are a dozen recipes which rely upon a can of condensed cream of mushroom soup for their sauce. There's nothing terribly wrong with these recipes; it is just that there are better ways to cook which are not that much more time consuming, taste better and are better for you. I strongly recommend that, if you need a book like this in your culinary library, you add Cynthia Graubart's "Slow Cooking for Two" (Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2013) instead of Comerford's.
April 18, 2018
Looking toward the downsizing that comes with retirement, I found this cookbook to be a real treasure. Cornerford not only gives recipes that have about six ingredients each but indicates what size slow cooker is needed for each recipe. The only issue is that with the downsizing state of mind, this is on my "to purchase" list. Love it.
April 2, 2020
These recipes are amazing and I can't wait to try them. I enjoyed the calorie and nutrition count listed on this, definitely helpful. My favorite part is that this is all small batches so you really can do it for two people (with leftovers) or four (but no chance of leftover depending on the dish).
May 14, 2020
I had hoped to find some healthy and easy crockpot recipes for just us 2. The few recipes I have tried: most are good, but a few I didn't like. I am very disappointed because very few of the recipes are HEALTHY recipes. I find I have to modify most of them to get the saturated fat levels down and sometimes the carbs. I noticed after I bought it that this author also published a healthy crock-pot-for 2. I wish I could exchange the current one for the healthy cookbook. Many of the recipes use only 1/2 of the packaging, so how do I store the rest? I can double the recipe, but then I would have to experiment with how long I cook it. Also, many of the recipes only cook for 3-4 hours. I want 8-hour recipes so I can start it in the morning or lunchtime and to be ready for dinner. Putting the ingredients in the pot in the middle of the afternoon so it is ready for dinner doesn't work for my lifestyle.
January 13, 2020
Now that I am not working that much, I wanted to learn how to use the Slow-Cooker for more than just our regular meals!
This book has 150 recipes for the slow cooker! I found ten, that I thought my husband and I, would enjoy!
My favorite recipe was for Peach Pecan Delight! (MMMM!) I have included the recipe below.
INGREDIENTS:
15-oz. can sliced peaches with the juice
3.4 oz. box instant vanilla pudding mix, divided
12 pecan shortbread cookies, broken
4 tablespoons butter, melted
PREPARATION:
1. Spray the crockpot with nonstick spray.
2. Pour the peaches into the crock. Add 4 tablespoons of the instant pudding mix and stir it in.
3. In a bowl, combine the broken cookies and the butter. Stir until well mixed.
4. Add the rest of the dry pudding mix to the cookie mixture. Spoon the mixture evenly on top of the fruit.
5. Cover and cook on HIGH for 1 and a half hours.
This cookbook gets the first 5 star rating of the series!
Why?
The book contained illustrations for each and every recipe! The pictures looked good enough to "eat!"
This book has 150 recipes for the slow cooker! I found ten, that I thought my husband and I, would enjoy!
My favorite recipe was for Peach Pecan Delight! (MMMM!) I have included the recipe below.
INGREDIENTS:
15-oz. can sliced peaches with the juice
3.4 oz. box instant vanilla pudding mix, divided
12 pecan shortbread cookies, broken
4 tablespoons butter, melted
PREPARATION:
1. Spray the crockpot with nonstick spray.
2. Pour the peaches into the crock. Add 4 tablespoons of the instant pudding mix and stir it in.
3. In a bowl, combine the broken cookies and the butter. Stir until well mixed.
4. Add the rest of the dry pudding mix to the cookie mixture. Spoon the mixture evenly on top of the fruit.
5. Cover and cook on HIGH for 1 and a half hours.
This cookbook gets the first 5 star rating of the series!
Why?
The book contained illustrations for each and every recipe! The pictures looked good enough to "eat!"
April 25, 2025
I got several cookbooks 2nd-hand at a library sale, and this one seems to be about on par for the course. Normally, I like cookbooks that lean healthier, but I have enjoyed a Fix-It and Forget-It cookbook in the past, and I was curious to see what the cooking for two recipes would be like. (The prior Fix-It cookbook I've enjoyed is "Fix it and Forget It for Entertaining," so much so, that it's one of the few cookbooks I've opted to keep.)
I am interested in the Maui Chicken Crock, Turkey in the Crock, and Atlanta Tuna Loaf recipes. My adult daughter had recently come across a different turkey in the crock recipe, and I'm interested to compare notes, or maybe have variations on a theme with slightly different flavors. My husband has also added "Asian Short Rib Stoup," "One-Pot Honey Garlic Chicken Meal", and "Salmon Puff" to our list of possibilities.
I have a feeling that some people will be disappointed in that those recipes marked "This recipe makes enough for seconds or leftovers." means that those recipes are not, in fact, for just up to two servings, but four. So the recipe size is not always as small as indicated. If you truly have two people, you may want occasional leftovers, but if you have one person, you probably don't want the same recipe four times in a row.
However, there are still many 2-serving recipes in this book.
I am looking for a low-point (in Weight Watcher points) breakfast bar recipe, and thought perhaps Blueberry Vanilla Oatmeal Bake would be the one. It isn't. At a whopping 12 points, it's a hard way to start out the day and still stay on track for the rest of the meals.
One reviewer mentioned that the timing for these recipes are hard for those who work. They want 8-hour crockpot recipes and these are often 3-4 hours. Some however, do go longer.
A couple reviewer mentioned that these recipes often include pre-packaged ingredients, and one reviewer said that if you fix these recipes, you often have leftover portions of an open package that they don't know what to do with. They didn't want to just double the recipe to use the rest because they'd be uncertain of the timing. That could also end up making vast quantities.
One reviewer mentioned getting the healthy version of this book in the series instead, and another reviewer preferred Cynthia Graubart's "Slow Cooking for Two" (Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2013). I'm including it here in case I ever want to hunt for it.
This review might go up or down after I try a few of these recipes.
I am interested in the Maui Chicken Crock, Turkey in the Crock, and Atlanta Tuna Loaf recipes. My adult daughter had recently come across a different turkey in the crock recipe, and I'm interested to compare notes, or maybe have variations on a theme with slightly different flavors. My husband has also added "Asian Short Rib Stoup," "One-Pot Honey Garlic Chicken Meal", and "Salmon Puff" to our list of possibilities.
I have a feeling that some people will be disappointed in that those recipes marked "This recipe makes enough for seconds or leftovers." means that those recipes are not, in fact, for just up to two servings, but four. So the recipe size is not always as small as indicated. If you truly have two people, you may want occasional leftovers, but if you have one person, you probably don't want the same recipe four times in a row.
However, there are still many 2-serving recipes in this book.
I am looking for a low-point (in Weight Watcher points) breakfast bar recipe, and thought perhaps Blueberry Vanilla Oatmeal Bake would be the one. It isn't. At a whopping 12 points, it's a hard way to start out the day and still stay on track for the rest of the meals.
One reviewer mentioned that the timing for these recipes are hard for those who work. They want 8-hour crockpot recipes and these are often 3-4 hours. Some however, do go longer.
A couple reviewer mentioned that these recipes often include pre-packaged ingredients, and one reviewer said that if you fix these recipes, you often have leftover portions of an open package that they don't know what to do with. They didn't want to just double the recipe to use the rest because they'd be uncertain of the timing. That could also end up making vast quantities.
One reviewer mentioned getting the healthy version of this book in the series instead, and another reviewer preferred Cynthia Graubart's "Slow Cooking for Two" (Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2013). I'm including it here in case I ever want to hunt for it.
This review might go up or down after I try a few of these recipes.
May 29, 2018
Love the recipes
But!
How do I get these breakfast recipe s done without getting up at 3 in the morning but the lunches and deserts are ok
Cannot wait to try them!
But!
How do I get these breakfast recipe s done without getting up at 3 in the morning but the lunches and deserts are ok
Cannot wait to try them!
June 10, 2018
This book was okay. Some good meals, some not so great. Also, it really bothers me, but... that the dish on the cover does not seem to be included as a recipe in the book? I could not find it.
February 4, 2020
Lots of great recipes to try using my new 2 qt slow cooker.
January 6, 2022
Perfect for me. I just gave away a 6-quart slow cooker and bought a 3-quart. I read the library book first and then decided to buy it on Amazon. Lots of great recipes.
November 11, 2021
I love Fix-It and Forget It Cookbooks...
...because I love my crock pots and slow cookers! I have used F&F cookbooks for years and just about wore them out. Now I am in my senior years and there is only the two of us, but, I still love to use my crock pots, only in for smaller meals. So, I downsized to smaller pots. The recipes in this book are just what I need! Perfect! Easy and delicious meals. Would make a great gift for anyone!
...because I love my crock pots and slow cookers! I have used F&F cookbooks for years and just about wore them out. Now I am in my senior years and there is only the two of us, but, I still love to use my crock pots, only in for smaller meals. So, I downsized to smaller pots. The recipes in this book are just what I need! Perfect! Easy and delicious meals. Would make a great gift for anyone!
October 13, 2019
Wide selection
Nice variety easy to double recipes. Easy to follow step by step direction.Nice to add more variety to my weekly lineup.
Nice variety easy to double recipes. Easy to follow step by step direction.Nice to add more variety to my weekly lineup.
Displaying 1 - 13 of 13 reviews