[horselover]

Sometimes when I don't have time to do everything in the morning, I'll brown my roast the night before and refrigerate, also chop up my veggies and put in a bowl of water in the frig , then in the morning I just through everything in the crockpot and cook all day. You can save a lot of morning work by prepping the night before, like browning meat or chopping veggies. I also have mixed everything in pot the night before , a big timesaver if you use a recipe that uses a lot of spices or several ingredients and put it in frig, set it out when I first get up, so pot can warm up and then put it into cooker when i get ready to leave.