Everyone has their own ideas about comfort food and different people find different foods soothing and comforting. What makes you feel better after a long, difficult day? Perhaps a bowl of chicken noodle soup would do wonders for your morale, or maybe the thought of sausage casserole makes your mouth water.As my experiment progressed, I added more foods that had the same effect. There are multitudes of dishes that are hot, spicy and flavorful: Kung pao chicken, curry, spicy ginger chicken, hot sausage stew, which is great on the grill by the way, all kinds of Mexican and Thai foods. On occasion, I would sprinkle a little cayenne pepper on grilled vegetables. What I found is it really doesn't take much to produce the desired result.If you're looking to see if your food is ready in a dutch oven, don't get too careless, be cautious or you will sprinkle your meal with some natural salt and pepper. This yummy kind of salt sausage stew chorizo pepper is actually ash that falls off the lid of the dutch oven as it is being removed from the dutch oven stove. Don't worry too much about it though because it really doesn't taste terrible and it isn't a health concern. Although it does leave a nice texture.I prefer to prepare everything I can ahead of time. Therefore, my menu consists of at least one dinner casserole or chicken spaghetti, one slow cooker sausage casserole with potatoes, and several things that can be prepared ahead of time. I prepare a salad and chill it in the fridge, wrap apple dumplings the night before, make a meatloaf or roast a day ahead for quick casual lunches, as well as a nice dessert to be shared by both days. All recipes and more can be found on my other links.Are you a huge soup fan? Well with the crock pot you most likely will never want to ever open a can of soup in the future. You certainly want to try such absolute favorites as Chicken Tortilla Soup or possibly Roast Tomato-Basil soup. Basic slow cooker sausage casserole cooker tasty recipes for a pot of soup are scrumptious and offer a little something for all. There will always be those long time absolute favorites of Manhattan clam chowder, New England clam chowder or even Easy Corn Chowder.There are even breakfast recipes that are easy and quick to make. Most mornings can get hectic with everyone trying to get ready to leave for work and school and trying to get the breakfast cooked. A good food to use for breakfast are eggs because they cook pretty quickly and most people like eggs.Now that you have everything cooked, you can divide up for storage. Generally I'll keep all the chicken in one container, rice in another, etc. Then, the night before I divide up enough meals for my next day. Because I eat every few hours, I take several food containers to work. I'll put my protein, carb, veggie portion into a container so in the morning I grab my stack and go. During the day, I pull out my dish and I'm ready to eat.