Bought a slow cooker to make stews and soups in the winter but have been using it to make some vegetable soup for when I get back from swimming. The recipe is easy....open fridge, chop all vegetables, 2 pints of veg stock, cup of barley, cup of lentils, big dolop of tomato paste, add all to slow cooker and in 3 hours you have soup. Yeyyyyy! Don't think I would win Ready, Steady, Cook with it but it fills that massive hole I have after swimming.