Yesterday I reorganized and took inventory of the pantry. Only the spice cupboard left! I have a stash of various cans that will be expiring soon. Lots of plans for those. Tonight's dinner, Vegetable Soup used only things that we always keep in the pantry and a couple of fresh things. Soup can always be adjusted to what you have on hand and you're own tastes. Our soups turn out differently every time. Here is what was in tonight's dinner!
Ingredients:
2 cans (14 oz. each) veggie broth
1 can kidney beans, drained and rinsed
1 can asparagus
1 can corn, drained and rinsed
2 fresh carrots
chopped onion
2 cloves garlic, grated
1 serrano chile, diced
black pepper
Italian seasoning
bay leaf
We started by sauteing the onions and carrot in a little olive oil. When the onions started to get soft, we tossed in the chile and garlic. Then, added everything else and let it simmer for 20-30 minutes. Z cooked some pasta and added it to his bowl of soup.
At first, I wasn't going to include a price breakdown of this meal because it is so variable on whether or not you got the canned items on sale, how good the sale was, what you use, and how much. After much pondering, For instance, we could have saved $0.60 is we had only used one can of broth. But, we wanted to use it before it expired and have been saving them for so long we just used them. I realized I was really curious how much this meal cost us. Here it is.
Price Breakdown:
1.20 veggie broth
.48 kidney beans (coupon!)
.33 canned asparagus
.33 canned corn (by the way, canned corn is really tasty - it has a nice crunch)
.10 carrots (.98/2 lb bags at Winco - they are even cheaper at Fred Meyer, though)
.15 onion (we used most of a small onion. They are .48/lb at Fred Meyer!!!!)
.06 garlic (.33/head)
.04 serrano
spices - negligible
Total: $2.69 or $.336/serving (8 servings)
Frugal, fast, and tasty. Enjoy!
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