I, too, like chips, Dave, but have never cooked them.

Rather, yesterday, I got some new potatoes and, today, prepared them this one-pot way:

Boiled and drained before adding a mug of instant veg soup; then, after stewing a while, baked beans, chopped iceberg lettuce & portobello mushrooms, some sauce and spices, plus fresh mint leaves - the plant I grow in my flat needed a hair cut!

Photos (including a mashed option) added here "One-Pot Cooking"