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It was a Two Crockpot Night and I been Working Like a Dog (as sung to the tune of ITS BEEN A HARD DAYS NIGHT by the Beetles!)

My husband and I commute to work together and we usually roll in the driveway at about 5:35 pm.  But, last night we had supper on the table at 6:15pm.  And it was not take out or frozen pizza.  By using two crockpots and mixing up some homemade cornbread, we had a Sunday-type supper on the table in 45 minutes.  Wow, we loved it!  And combine that with the fact that we are in the car driving to work at 7:15am each morning, we discovered a wonderful way to put dinner on the table. This is what we had: Ham (we bought a small bone-in ham at Aldi for $8.00, which will also feed us sandwiches for lunch and I will be freezing the ham bone for making beans on another day) Hashbrown Casserole Homemade Cornbread Muffins Corn (storebought, canned) Large Lima Beans (from my freezer) Directions for the Ham : I took the ham out of the freezer that night before bed.  I ran some water on it, removed the wrapping and put it in the empty, unplugged crockpot (...