Peeling carrots, and potatoes is a good skill as profession learn to handle that weapon as well as a knife. Chopping, cutting thinly, ever vegetable is essentially very professional, in culinary schools, and restaurants you do this more than anything else. Only cook what you can eat and you filled to full.
We call this a simple beef stew. You can do any thing with the spices you have to change it around. Now this will help make you fat, and strong,, the Irish coal works used this type of food to work.