I made a hybrid Minestrone in mine tonight

3 cups beef stock
tin tomatoes
1/2 tin kidney beans, rinsed
2 cloves garlic
diced carrott
diced celery
sliced leek
chopped bacon
some chopped pumpkin (breaks down to nothing and just gives it a bit of body I find)
tablespoon or so of basil pesto
3/4 cup macaroni
salt and pepper

Bung it all in except for macaroni and cooked for about 7 hours. Put the macaroni in about 1/2 hour before you want to eat or it will go soggy. Had it with lots of cracked pepper, fresh parsley and parmesan. And cheese bread. YUM
Ingredients are very approximate, I really didn't measure much.
Oh and the best part is that DD laps it up and it's full of veges!