Tonight's Soup

The great thing about making soup at home is you aren't getting the chemicals from the lining of the soup can, and you control your own seasoning instead of having Campbells or Progresso decide for you how much sodium you should eat.(The stuff I add is pretty salty though, but I hate the idea of canned anything right now because of the BPA in the linings and in plastics.)

Google "chemical in soup can lining" and you will see what I mean.

As I was chopping up my vegetables I was thinking to myself how nothing I eat at a restaurant tastes half as good as the stuff I cook at home.

ANYway... here's tonight's soup.
2 knorr cilantro cubes (I've had these forever I hope they still make them)
1 knorr homestyle broth gel (probably a lot of sodium)
2 cups water (could use a litle more - the broth is supposed to be made with 3 cups but I wanted to add more vegetables to the pot and was running out of space!)
whatever was in the bottom of the V8 spicy veg juice bottle to get that thing out of my 'fridge)
2 whole carrots sliced on the diagonal (less carrots than green stuff because carrots have lots of sugar)
an entire bunch of celery, sliced up into thinnish pieces (about 7 stalks of the pre-trimmed celery that comes in a pack of 3 or 4 bunches)
sliced/chopped up the white bottoms of an entire bunch of green onions (saved the green tops for breakfast eggs)
about 1.5 cups chopped onion (I use the pictsweet pre-chopped frozen onion)
2 cups frozen (pictsweet) green beans

throw all this in a 4 cup pot on the stove and let simmer so the carrots get slightly tender but not so much that the greenbeans turn too dark...

To an individual serving, add some greek yogurt (I used Anderson Erickson classic greek, about half the single serving container - I like them 'cause they still come with a lid)

I decided this was 4 servings but I probably ate most of the vegetables myself. I'm here alone tonight since the boys are at their father's house and J. is working.

I measured it though, I ate 2 cups of vegetables and 1 cup of the broth and there is still a lot left, and it's only like 83 calories if we believe the recipe calculator thingy, and I am going to have more!
I must also say, my kids will eat this soup and ask for seconds. I make it all the time.