Before I tell you about the easiest Barbecue Beef Roast on the planet earth, I must ask this:
How did we ever get through life without knowing how to make the Easiest Crock Pot Mashed Potatoes?? I don’t even know.
Well, I guess I do know. I had given up on making mashed potatoes altogether. Never able to fit it into my schedule, or not wanting to mess with the mess if I did have time – I just stopped making them. We’ve been through all this.
But now that I know I can make them like this and it takes almost no effort, time, or clean-up? I’ve made them for my family at least once each week since.
My children are so happy. My husband is so happy. But I am the happiest because I feel like a great big champion when I’ve made not just a delicious, wholesome dinner but fantastic mashed potatoes too. I feel like a rock star. Mashed potatoes have made me a rock star.
I obviously measure success in ways that no one else does. Everyone else can have their fame, fortune, fancy boats, big houses, and cool cars. We have our mashed potatoes. This is what dreams are made of.
Well, perhaps it’s time to move on to information about the Barbecue Beef Roast?
This new recipes is even easier than the potatoes, which of course, is saying something. So if you happen to have two crock pots, you can make both of these on the same day and your family will stand up at the table and give you an ovation.
The first time I made this roast, I did this:
- Walked to the freezer and got out a roast. (30 seconds)
- Opened the package and put it into a crock pot. (20 seconds)
- Got out some barbecue sauce and dumped it on the roast. (20 seconds)
- Grabbed and onion, pulled off the outer layer, rinsed it, and quartered it, then threw it in with the meat. (40 seconds)
- Plugged in the crock pot, turned it on low, walked away. (10 seconds)
This, my friends, is how we make dinner in 2 minutes.
My kids scrubbed the potatoes for me and we got those started in our second crock pot a couple hours later. At dinner time, we mashed the potatoes (2 minutes), steamed some green beans (30 seconds of “work”/5 minutes of cook time), and got out a bowl of fresh pineapple.
This dinner is glorious.
P.S. I considered making gravy but decided I had “worked” hard enough to make this dinner. So I chose to simply use the juice in the crock pot. That was still perfection.
Simple Barbecue Beef Roast
- 3-4 pound beef roast, frozen or thawed
- 1-2 cups BBQ sauce
- 1-2 medium onions
- Place roast in a crock pot (frozen is fine).
- Douse the meat with barbecue sauce.
- Quarter the onion and place in the crock pot.
- Cover and cook on low for 10 hours if frozen or 8 hours if thawed.

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What type of roast do you use? (top sirloin, outside round, etc.)
I just use whatever is on sale. :) :)