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The slow cooker earns its cupboard space only if you decide what goes in it before eight in the morning, which is precisely when nobody wants to make a decision. Draw the night before and lay the ingredients out. Thirty meals, all of them genuinely better for the long cook rather than merely tolerant of it. Cheap cuts are the point: a shin of beef that would be inedible in twenty minutes becomes the best thing you ate that week.
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