Chocolate and meat/substitutes can be pretty good, especially with chili.
Kinda confused about the whole mashed potato thing... You made soup, used it instead of water on a prepared meal, then added cheese and meat of some kind? Pls elaborate
Like, it's instant mashed potatoes. Their instructions can basically be boiled down to add water and heat, or heat water and add. So what I did was cook up a can of cream of chicken soup instead of using water, and then dumped the mashed potatoes into it and stirred until I was content. Content included cheese and some extra water, and somehow ended up with a consistency dead on for dough, which I can't recall ever quite managing in the hundreds of times I've prepared instant mashed potatoes. I've even done the dump-it-in-cream-of-whatever before, without this exact results.
As for exact measurements, nah. It was a can of Campbell's (half milk/half water) and a bag of walmart's four-cheese mashed potatoes stuff. Then, uh. Good bit of walmart's taco cheese and some water after stirring a bit and being dissatisfied with the consistency. Probably less than a cup of either (actually measuring out a cup of shredded cheese leaves you with like a stupid amount of cheese, honestly), but it was a decent amount as tossing stuff in goes.
I haven't fiddled around with frying much of anything except french fries, and not even that, much. Dun's probably right, though. I've had little fried potato ball things before and they're indeed kinda' bloody amazing.
E: oh, the meat was a couple of slices of deli honey roasted turkey, tore up into bits. I put the stuff in just about anything grain or starch based I cook, heh. Adds a bit of meat and a bit of sweet.