DJ- I think it was a velveeta box mix that E and I tried about 4-5 years ago that led us to look for the recipe we ended up with because we decided we could make it ourselves and it would taste better with fresh potatoes, which of course it did and E mastered it as "his dish". It wasn't the AuGratin- this was nore like what you'd put on a loaded baked potato except it's a casserole and you don't cook the potatoes first- you just cut them into chunks and throw them in with everything else. I think it had milk in it, too.
I'm going to look thru those you listed, Suz.
So far the plan is to grill tuna or salmon tomorrow and have fresh spinach cooked in a tad of olive oil and pasta with sundried tomato sause.
Then on Monday I'll cook the smothered chicken and we hope to have the potato casserole with some green vegie- maybe aparagus.
We'll have leftovers Tuesday and Wednesday I plan to cook pork chops, with mashed potatoes, pinto beans and corn bread. I figure we can use the gravy from the chicken.
That should give us enough to mix-n-match on with leftovers thru Friday, or Thursday at least. E has his SAT on Sat. so if we need to order out or pick up something Fri. night I'm not worried about it.