I’ll stick with dumping meatballs in the crockpot with canned/jar beef gravy for a few hours. 
Left over mashed potatoes, an egg (if you have one), Bisquick. Fry up in pan = potato pancakes. (My mom used to make them. They were delicious.)
Poor man’s soda - Milk and Vernor’s ginger ale. (And it works great if you have a stomach ache.)
We used to do this whenever Mom served tomato soup.
My Dad would make
Fried corn meal mush with ketchup.
Years later, I learned that the normal way to eat it is
with honey and cream.
I prefer it with the ketchup.
Ditto but try them with HillshireFarms Lit’l Smokies - I fry them up with some chopped onion. then do the sauce.
Around our house it’s “hamburger slush”. Dice an onion and brown in a frying pan, add about a pound of ground beef and fry up until browned and crumbly. Season to taste (salt, pepper, garlic, whatever). Add one or two cans of that old standby cream of mushroom soup and enough water to make a gravy-ish consistency. Stir and heat until bubbly. Now add an equal quantity of Minute Rice (1 can of soup + 1/2 can water = 1 1/2 cans rice). Stir and cover until liquid is absorbed.
Tastes even better the second day (if it gets that far).
I’d probably just call that “beef stroganoff”. 
My mom made one of her traditions for me just last week when I went to visit.
Shrimp salad
Mix together:
Juice from 1 large lemon
1 large avocado - diced
1 small or medium onion - chopped
1 lb baby shrimp
crushed red pepper flakes - to taste
Another family favorite is peanut butter and bacon sandwiches for breakfast. Especially awesome if the bacon is crispy and still hot enough to make the peanut butter all melty.
My mom made the usual Sunday roast with beef gravy, but we always had rice instead of mashed potatoes. I was a teenager before I ever saw anyone eat gravy on mashed potatoes, and I still remember how odd it seemed. We had mashed potatoes with butter, but gravy meant rice in our house.
She made what she called deep dish pizza–canned biscuits squashed into a deep pan, layered with onion, fried ground beef, tomato soup, cheese on top. When I came home from a long hospital stay, it was the first thing I requested, and it tasted like heaven.
There was what we called orange chicken–one can each of tomato soup and golden mushroom soup simmered with chicken and served over rice. I’d still like that, although I haven’t made it in years.
Shrimp Wiggle
4 tablespoons of butter
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of pepper
4 tablespoons of flour
2 cups milk
2/4 cup cooked peas
1 cup cooked & peeled shrimp
Melt butter over low heat. Blend in the flour, salt and pepper. Stir until smooth. Remove from heat. Mix in the milk and return to the stove. Bring to a boil stirring continuously. Boil for 1 minute, remove from heat and add shrimp and peas. Serve over steamed rice or toast points.
Mr. Salinqmind’s favorite meal is fried crumbled hamburger, drained, mixed with a can of beef gravy, served on hamburger rolls. I would rather starve than eat that slop, but I make a big batch, parcel it out in containers in the freezer, and save myself a whole lot of cooking. Nuke and serve, side of Doritos, and he is a happy man.
Myself, when I’m beyond weary, but starving, I’ll toast three English muffins. One is buttered, one is spread with peanut butter, and the one for dessert is spread with honey. Glass of milk on the side, and I consider myself well fed.
These both sound good, but the names would have me expecting a completely different taste, I think…
Scrumptious!
I have one I do here at work that freaks out some of my coworkers:
Toast two freezer waffles. Butter as normal when toasted. Add a slice of American cheese (product is OK) to each waffle and nuke for 10-15 seconds. Yum!
And I adore peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. I was allergic to tomatoes when I was little; Mom used to make me a BLPB (bacon, lettuce, and peanut butter) instead.
Crab crackers. One can of reasonably good crabmeat, a tsp of butter, and some parmegiano cheese. Mix into a paste, spread on sliced english muffins, and toast. really good.
Stuff it into mushrooms and broil is another way to fix it. I’m definitely going to try the english muffin trick. Sounds yum!
My mom did that too. She called it “scalloped tomatoes.”
I hated it as a kid - the bread always turned out slimy. Now I’d like to have it again for old times sake but I don’t know exactly what she did. I think she buttered the bread, opened a jar of stewed tomatoes, bunch o’ black pepper and baked it. Wonder if it’s still gross.
They’re horrifying. Horrifyingly delicious, to be precise.
Not sure you would call it a specialty - thin sliced extra sharp cheddar toasted onto english muffins. Used to get those from my grandmothers cook as a snack.
Hm, what our family has long called apple kuchen - ,ore or less a fairly sweet bread dough spread out into a rectangle in a 9x18 cake pan. Top with thin sliced apples, and top that with a mixture of butter, granulated sugar, flour and chopped walnuts or slivered almonds, whichever were handy and bake. It isn’t quite a streusel , just sort of a sweet crunchy topping. It also isn’t a classic apfelkuchen either.
And I eat sliced beefsteak tomatoes with a dab of mayonnaise. Well, I also eat them out of hand like an apple too. I just really like tomatoes.
I’ll bet it would be good with some sturdy “artisan”-type bread like you can get nowadays. Especially if you let a couple of thick slices sit out and get a bit dry. That bread wouldn’t dare get slimy. Unlike Wonder bread or other wimpy supermarket bread.