Had Some Canned Goods in my Pantry I Wanted to Use Up… So I Asked ChatGPT What I can Make with Those Things in a Slow Cooker. Loved the Outcome!

I’m fairly new to both slow-cooking and ChatGPT. Both seem to have their respective but different learning curves.

Now that I’ve perfected my weekday meal-prep routine, a lot of my “easy meal” pantry ingredients such as canned tuna and condensed soup have been collecting dust. So I decided I’d try and find some creative ways to use it all up so it doesn’t go to waste.

I lack the traditional home-cooking background that would allow me to formulate these things on my own. Conceptually, I always knew that “Creamy Mac and Cheese” type dishes existed that were made using cream of mushroom soup. But I didn’t even know the basics of how to incorporate these ingredients, nor did I have the attention span to try and figure it out on my own.

So I turned to ChatGPT. Here’s exactly what I typed in…

“I’ve seen many recipes that combine cream of mushroom condensed soup and macaroni pasta. Can you find me some recipes to utilize these, ideally using a slow cooker?”

It gave me several recipes, and the fourth one (in the second photo) stood out the most to me by far. I did have to buy some ingredients such as milk and shredded cheese. But this was a great way to figure out an optimal recipe for utilizing what I already had!

Besides the fact that the dish turned out great… this also helped me to understand the general workflow of a simple slow cooker meal like this. I could absolutely see myself replicating this with customized tweaks of sorts depending on what type of ingredients I have on hand.

Anyway… that’s dinner for tonight and tomorrow… and then meal-prepping on Sunday to prepare for another great week ahead.

Have a blessed weekend, everyone! 🙏