Non-Negotiable Ingredients

-Lean ground beef (there is probably a vegan alternative - I don't know it though)
-Creamed corn
-Potatoes (3-5)
-Whatever you like in your mashed potatoes (or margarine)
-Cooking oil (I use olive oil)

Bonus Ingredients

-Cheese

Instructions

-Wash and peel your potatoes then cut them up (the teenier your potato chunks the faster they'll cook!)
-Boil potatoes until mashable (this usually takes me 10ish minutes)
-While potatoes are boiling fry ground beef in a pan. Not giving instructions on this because I don't want to poison anyone. Use this guide instead.
-Spray your cooking dish so nothing sticks!
-Drain ground beef and spread on bottom of pan (don't drain the fat down the sink!! It'll damage it, throw it out. You can leave it in a bowl to harden)
-Dump cream corn into the pan and spread over the ground beef until covered
-Mash potatoes (I just add a spoonful of margarine, but you can add whatever you like to your potatoes, some people add milk, sour cream, and seasonings)
-Spread mashed potatoes over cream corn until covered
-(Optional) add shreded cheese over all of the potatoes
-Put shepherds pie in the oven for 30 minutes (or until potatoes become crispy on top) at 350 deg F
-Let cool then eat!!

Notes

-Obviously this is not a very unique or special shepherds pie recipe and my mom did not invent it lol, but she's the one who told me how to do it so... credit goes to her
-This makes so much food I'm not kidding. I used a relatively small packet of ground beef, one can of creamed corn, and three potatoes and I've been eating shepherds pie for like four days (there is still more left). If you can not eat the same food over and over again... maybe freeze it? Or use half portions of ingredients I guess. This is great for me because I have like no time to make lunch in the morning before I go to college and I don't want to spend money on Timmies every day for lunch lol
-Cost is question mark because I have no clue how much ground beef is supposed to cost you. Meat is expensive, buy it on sale if you can. The corn and the potatoes are pretty cheap though, and for the number of meals this will feed you for I'd say it is worthwhile.
-Sometimes you can go up to the meat counter at groccery stores and they'll straight up tell you what the best deal on whatever meat is in the store
-The cheese tastes really good. If it won't make you sick you should put cheese on this
-Make sure to wash your hands, wash your dishes, etc. carefully after handling raw meat! Do not freeze, thaw, and then refreeze raw meat.

Non-Negotiable Ingredients

-Bread (I use the ends of the loaf)
-Olive Oil and/or Butter/Margarine
-Salt

Bonus Ingredients

-Pepper
-Other seasonings
-Cheese(?)

Notes

-I don't have a bread knife so I just kind of tear up my bread ends. They don't need to look nice they just need to taste good lol
-I use both olive oil and margarine. Recipe says 1 tablespoon per cup of bread but I just kind of go with what my heart wants
-I mostly just use salt and pepper because that's what I consistantly have in the house, but I have garlic seasoning now! Will update with if they taste good with garlic seasoning
-I haven't tried them with cheese because I don't buy cheese but damn that sounds good
-The responsible thing to do is to eat these with soup or salad but also consider: these make a great snack when you don't have chips or crackers in the house.

I love these so much being so for real. They're so easy to make you can't fuck this up and they're made with things I actually have around the house. If you don't just kind of have margarine/oil, salt, and bread I honestly can't justify buying them just to make this, but I use margarine and bread like daily so this is a good one for me. Canned soup is also a major staple for me and these make it feel so much nicer haha.