Rival 3735wn 3 1 2 Quart Slow Cooker - Perhaps you want to consider this one

If you are a single person, you can still prepare meals with the crock pot . If the rival 4 quart slow cooker is too big for you there are smaller ones. The rival 3735wn 3 1 2 quart slow cooker is ideal for a small household. It is not too small and not too big. Remember you might have guests for supper, so I would not buy a smaller size than this one. It has a removable oval stoneware dish, that you can use for different purposes.

If your recipe calls for marinating, then you can use the dish to marinate the meat overnight.
Then you can cook the meal in it, and if you have any leftover you can store the meal in the fridge. Beware that you can not reheat food in the slow cooker. Cleaning is easy, as you can remove the dish. Do not submerge the heating unit in water.

The slow cooker has two settings. A low and a high setting. Low setting will allow you to cook met in 8 to 10 hours. The higher setting will do it faster but it will still take about 5 hours. The low setting is very convenient, when you work outside the house. Just set in the morning, and by the time you return home dinner will be ready. Wouldn't that be wonderful? I personally believe that is the biggest benefit of using a slow cooker. it is like having an assistant cooker. So I urge you to try it. You will not get dissappointed.