Oh, and also! That sort of plain cooking--just a chicken, just a pork roast, whatever, with a bit of seasoning, makes for excellent leftovers later. A local grocery had pork butts on sale last week. I bought more than the family could eat at one meal, tossed it in the crock pot with some season salt and a sliced onion. We ate it with mashed potatoes and gravy--and then had bbq pork sandwiches the next day, which took less than five minutes to sauce, microwave, and slap on bread. Mmmm. Two days in a row of low-fuss supper.