HAHA.My mom made this stuff when I was in high school that we called “that stuff”.
Brown hamburger meat add a bag of frozen Asian style veggies and a couple handfuls of tiny egg noodles ( uncooked) some water and according to my memory, a massive amount of soy sauce.
Slam a lid on it til water is absorbed and the noodles are cooked.
For some reason we liked it.
I have no idea where she got that “recipe”. She wasn’t at all adventurous in her cooking.
Funny story, the name for the homemade hamburger helper recipe is "White Slop". My mom had the recipe for years and she called it Hamburger Mac and Cheese until one summer when I was about 6-7. We went down to my great-aunt's beach house and my great-aunt came as well and brought her mother (my great-grandmother) who lived with her. One night, my mom made hamburger mac and cheese for dinner. My great-grandmother said "I'm not eating that white sh**! I don't even think the dog would eat it!" Well, when her dogs devoured it she decided to taste it and decided it was good enough to eat. My mom found her name for the recipe amusing, but she cleaned it up a bit. It was always a hit at our house growing up, though my mom didn't add peas because my dad hates them, that was an addition of mine. Another recipe that got its name from White Slop was Red Slop, which was basically the same thing but marinara instead of cheese.