Waaaay before hamburger helper and packaged meals, when we cooked everything from scratch, and money was tight, I cooked some of the wildest concoctions.....some good, some not so, but family was fed and content.....when kids would ask what's for supper, I would say dog food and bird seed......we had both....that let them know mom was being the mad scientist again. Some of these concoctions I have carried thru to today......I, just me now, call them "garbage", but it's one way to clean out that one carrot, 1/2 onion, limp celery, left over pasta.......or whatever with a can of Campbell's some kind of cream soup..........