Budget food/living

Slow cookers are great for budget cooking/living:

• For carnivores, enable use of cheaper cuts which taste much better than the expensive ones when cooked for a long time.
  
• Make it easy to cook dried beans and pulses (cheaper than the tinned stuff), which are otherwise a bit tiresome (all that extra soaking and pre-cooking).
  
• Don't use much power, so save extra dosh.
  
• Save time. Being skint often means taking extra time to save money, so something that saves time and money is ace.
  
  

In point 4 I mean it saves your time. Yes, things take longer to cook, but you usually spend significantly less of your own time on the cooking than you would if you cooked it in a pan or in the oven. Prepare ingredients, chuck in slow cooker, turn on, walk away.