If I want to make something with 5 kinds of veggies for my family, I'm gonna be cooking for a straight hour, using a bunch of spices

Not really. Cook your meat in a pan, dice up your veggies while the meat is cooking. Once the meat is done, remove the meat from the pan and put your veggies into the pan with all that meat fond and cook them there. Add some salt to draw out the water from the veggies so the veggies absorb all that fond, and you're good to go.

Really you can cook one cup of rice while you do this, and use some sausage or kielbasa for your meat, sliced or diced cucumber, diced bell peppers, diced onions, sliced yellow squash, and w/e your fifth veggie was going to be, and just serve it all up on one plate topping the rice with your veggie mix.

It's easy as hell and you can do it all while the rice is cooking. It's a 15 minute meal.