Here some stick to your ribs food.
Shepherds Pie
About 6 cups mashed potatoes. Leftovers work. Add some life to them by adding butter, cream, salt, pepper. (I add sautéed bacon, onion, and cheese but i like to live dangerously)
Frozen peas, corn, and carrots. Maybe 2 or 3 cups. (Other veggies work too, like wax beans)
A quick meat, veggie, and gravy creation. Hamburger, chicken, pork, moose...whatever. Brown the meat, add diced onions, peppers, jalepeno, and whatever else for flavour (garlic, salt, pepper) and a pack of gravy mix/water. Done.
layer the meat sauce mix in a casserole, frozen veggies on top of that, spoon potatoes over that. Sprinkle cheese on that, unless your "lactose intolerant", bake in the oven at 375 until top browns...about 30/40 mins.
This makes plenty for 4.
I made a great chicken vegetable one recently with corn and green beans in the middle and cheddar topped potatoes.