One way to cut grocery bills is to increase the amount of soup in your diet. Perhaps serve soup before the main course to decrease the amount of meat required by your family. Or have a soup night with homemade bread - yum. Years ago, my friend, Karin, gave me her Minestrone recipe and it is superb. This makes quite a large volume. I use glass one litre canning jars to freeze it - just be careful not to fill them too full or the glass jar will break (experience speaking!)
Karin's Minestrone
Saute: 2 cloves of garlic, 2 chopped onions, 1 cup of chopped celery in a Tablespoon of cooking oil until tender
Add: 2 cups of diced carrots, 2 cups of shredded cabbage, 2 (19oz) cans of tomatoes with liquid, 10 cups of beef stock, 1 cup of chopped parsley, 1 tsp each of salt and pepper. Cover and simmer 20 minutes.
Add 2 cups of dry noodles, 2 cups of chopped zucchini, 6 cups of canned kidney beans (undrained), 4 cups of cooked hamburger. Simmer ten minutes more or until noodles are cooked.
Serve garnished with parmasan.
* If you are freezing the soup, add the zucchini and noodles to the container uncooked. Otherwise both will be very mushy when you reheat to serve.
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