Hamburger Barley Soup Recipes are good!

This soup is one of our family favourites. I couldn't beleive I had not posted it before! It is fairly quick to throw together, then let is sit for about an hour to cook. One picky kid asks for us to not give her the whole tomatoes, put she still ate the onions, and cooked carrots without complaint.

This is a huge pot, so don't double the recipe, unless you plan to use a second pot!

1 1/2 lbs ground beef
10 cups water - sometimes I add more
3 tbsp beef bouillon soup base
3 cups sliced carrots
2 large onions, chopped
2 cups sliced celery
1/2 cup pearl barley
1 tsp salt
pepper to taste
2 bay leaves
1/4 cup ketchup
28 oz can tomatoes, undrained
10 oz tomato sauce

1 cup elbow pasta

Brown ground beef in a LARGE pot. Add to the pot all the remain ingedients, except pasta.
Bring to a boil. Lower the temperature, cover and simmer for about 1 hour. Add pasta and cook until tender, adding more water if it is needed.
Serve.

If you think this is great, the second day is even better. I always need to add more water (Pasta soaks it up) before reheating.

Nicole's Beef Vegetable Soup

hThis is a great way to have picky eaters eat!

My seven year old wanted to help make dinner one evening. She is my picky eater. She picked out all the ingredients, or they passed her inspection before adding to the soup. She even ate things she doesn't normally eat, because she made it. She cut up everything with supervision and decided on how much of each ingredient should go into the pot She didn't know what lentils and split peas were, but at that point she was excited to find something in the cupboard to add to the pot. It needed some salt and pepper, but it was a great idea. She now wants to make a "cookbook" of all her own made recipes.

3/4 pot of water
2 cups carrots (she cut up)
2 cups celery (she cut up)
1 small zucchini (hates it, but agreed if it was the small zucchini, and cut into large chunks, so she could pick out the pieces)
2 lbs hamburger
3 tbsp beef bullion
1 cup dry split peas
1 cup lentil beans
1 can tomato soup

Cook the hamburger in the pot, then add all the other ingredients. Bring to boil, and cook until carrots are tender, about 20 minutes.

Serve.

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