About Dump Meals

Dump Meals is a free recipe site for the easiest kind of cooking: everything goes in the slow cooker or the baking dish, and dinner takes care of itself. It's written for people who cook from printed recipes, in type large enough to read across the kitchen.

Independent

Dump Meals is an independent website. It isn't connected with any cookbook, appliance maker or food company, and none of them reviews or endorses it. Brand names are left out on purpose: the recipes use ordinary grocery words like "slow cooker", "condensed cream of chicken soup" and "yellow cake mix", so any brand will do.

How the recipes are written

The recipes are written for this site from standard slow-cooker and baking methods. They have not been cooked in a test kitchen for this site, and we don't claim they have. Instead, every recipe gives times as a range and tells you what done looks like, and every meat recipe gives the safe temperature to check with an instant-read thermometer. Slow cookers run hotter or cooler from one model to the next, so the first time you make a recipe, check it at the short end of the range.

The food-safety advice follows the U.S. Department of Agriculture: thaw freezer bags in the refrigerator, never cook meat from frozen in a slow cooker, fill the cooker half to two-thirds full, cook to safe temperatures, and refrigerate leftovers within two hours. The slow cooker safety guide lists the sources, and the date they were last compared with the site.

Corrections

If a recipe didn't work for you, a time was off, or something reads wrong, please write to hello@dumpmeals.com. Tell us the recipe and what happened. We read every message, fix what we got wrong, and change the page.

How the site is paid for

Dump Meals is free to use and is paid for by advertising from Google AdSense. Ads never appear on the printed recipe cards, the planner's printouts, or the about, contact and privacy pages. We also sell a few printable extras through Gumroad, an online store service. Everything on the website itself stays free.