crock pottery

as you might remember, i don't cook. but i just discovered something i can do to keep myself fed that takes place right in my own kitchen. gather a bunch of foods you like and throw them in a slow cooker for 6 hours with a couple of cans of cream of anything soup. you can make 5 quarts of sustenance at a time. ingenious. it was all very confusing to me at first. why would i put food into the same container the salon uses to simmer wax? i'm sure there's a frauier way of going about it but for the culinarily challenged like myself it's like a miracle. do you ever get crock-potty? are there super good recipes or rules i should follow?