Help me to get a repertoire of family meals please!

[Honeymoonmummy]

I have recently started cooking meals from scratch having previously been a ready meal queen and am starting to build up a repertoire but the last few meals have been a big fat failure and I am starting to worry. I want to try to build up a "do it in my sleep" repertoire by the time I go back to work in April (currently on maternity leave). I got a slow cooker for Christmas so particularly interested in slow cooker recipes.

I know this will have been done hundreds of times before but I have just spent an hour or so doing a search and didn't find a decent thread.

So please please can you tell me your foolproof nice family recipes or point me to a thread which does?

TIA

A decent shepherds or cottage pie has to be on the rota, this one is great:

foodful.co.uk/extra-tasty-cottage-pie-recipe/

and as someone already mentioned, make up a big batch of mince and onions and freeze family size batches and you have the basis for this, chili, spag bol, lasagna, really handy time saving trick.