Crock Pot Beef Stew Recipe

Directions:

1. Mix together the gravy, tomato sauce, garlic and worcestershire. Dump gravy in first.
2. Drop in the meat, onion, celery, and carrots.
3. Mix it all up and cook for 8 hours on low or 4 hours on high.
4. The last 45 minutes add the potatoes. Take out 2 cups of the hot gravy and mix in the corn starch, then mix it back into the crock pot
5. *Now, if you are going to prep this ahead and freeze to drop in the crock pot frozen Do the following:.
6. Prep the gravy, tomato sauce, worcestershire, and garlic and put in a Ziploc.
7. Blanch your veggies - under cook, and bag together, leaving out the potatoes.
8. Bag the potatoes in a separate bag.
9. Bag the beef, cut in chunks.
10. When you are ready to use, just follow the directions above. You will have to thaw the gravy to pour in, but everything else can be thrown in frozen. You may have to add another hour to the cooking time.