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Hearty Soup Starter Mix

 Contents of jar:
Ingredients: barley, split peas, lentils, small pasta, dried minced onions, wheat berries, wild rice blend (Lundberg ‘Wild Blend Rice’: long grain brown rice, sweet brown rice, wild rice, whole grain Wehani rice, whole grain black Japonica rice)

 Recipe:

 Makes 8 servings (per 1 cup of mix), 2 cups each
 Prep Time: 10 minutes
 Total Time: 2 hours
 Ease of Preparation: Easy

 Ingredients:
   6 cups reduced sodium, low fat broth
   1 cup Hearty Soup Mix
   2 carrots, sliced
   2 stalks of celery, chopped
   1 ½ cups of kale, chopped
   2 (15oz) cans of low sodium diced tomatoes
   24 oz low sodium vegetable cocktail juice (like V-8)
   1 lb ground beef or turkey, 93% lean (or leftover meat)

 Preparation:
1. Put broth in a large kettle or dutch oven.  Add 1 cup of Hearty Soup Mix and bring to a boil.  Cover and simmer for 1 to 1 ½ hours.
 2. Add carrots, celery and kale, diced tomatoes (or your favorite vegetables) and vegetable cocktail juice.  Add meat if desired.  
3. Simmer for 20 minutes more until vegetables are cooked.   

 Nutritional Notes: per serving: calories 230; fat 4.6g (sat 1.2g, mono 0g, poly 0.2g); iron 3.2mg; cholesterol 37mg; calcium 75mg; carbohydrate 5.9g; sodium 560mg; protein 19g; fiber 5.6g