You come home after a long day at work, the aroma of a delicious, healthy dinner meets you at the door... Your dinner is ready and waiting.

• Using a slow cooker can do this. It simply involves tossing vegetables, meat, or fish into a slow cooker in the morning and letting them simmer into a robust stew, light soup, or pasta sauce.

• Not only do these meals require minimal preparation time, but each has an incredible marriage of flavors that merely require lengthy cooking. (They're low in fat and sodium, too!)

• Because of the slow cooking process of cooking at a lower temperature and longer, the slow cooker allows you to use less expensive cuts of meat.

The slow cooker is an excellent way to prepare home cooked meals and come in a variety of sizes and abilities.

We offer the programmable Hamilton Beach models 'Set and Forget' slow cookers in the 5 quart and a 6 quart.

Programmable Slow Cookers
Smart slow cookers that keep meals warm until you and your family are ready.

Running late? Don't worry, Hamilton Beach® programmable slow cookers adapt to your cooking needs and hectic schedules by automatically adjusting to keep your meal warm and prevent mushy overcooking. With three cooking modes, including two programmable and one manual, you'll have dinner ready regardless of the two things you can always plan on - hectic schedules and traffic jams.

Use the thermometer probe mode for meat or for temperature-sensitive recipes. Select a cooking time with the convenient program mode. When the cooking is done, both modes will keep your meal warm. Anytime you know you'll be home or are preparing an uncomplicated recipe, simply use the manual mode — it has traditional high, low, and keep warm settings.

Another Slow cooker we found very useful:

The '3 in 1 Slow Cooker' by Hamilton Beach is very versatile for it has 3 cooking capacities: 2, 4 or 6 quart. So you are getting 3 sizes of crock pots in one and because they nest with in each other this slow cooker saves on storage space.