Zero Point Vegetarian Soup

I eat soup every single day. I normally go out and buy Progresso soup in the can. I always get the Weight Watchers ones since I've been watching my weight since January (basically I got tired of being fat) Since I've been on WW I've lost 25 pounds. I've gained a few here and there (but never more then 5) but I have always lost them shortly after I put them on. With the New Year coming I am trying to lose another 10 pounds to get me to 140 pounds - my big goal, one I didn't make even though it was my New Years Resolution.

Because money has been tighter I wanted to stop buying the Progresso, so I made my own soup that should be either 0 or 1 point per one cup serving. There are also very few measurements with this soup, I just threw in what I had, so you can change it yourself as you feel necessary!



I started the soup by putting three cloves of garlic in a garlic press and getting all that garlicky goodness into the pot.



Then I went to chopping up an onion in my little mini processor. My eyes are very very sensitive to the onion so this makes it so I can actually cook with them.



I had a teaspoon of olive oil in the bottom of my stock pot and I had it turned on as well, so I began sweating the onion and garlic (this means keep it on a low heat!)

While that did it's thing I started cutting up my veggies:



First I did some green beans.



And then I started on some carrots.



At that point my onions were done and I added in 7 cups of water....



And two vegetarian vegetable bullion cubes, I normally don't have to much room for stock in the house so this does the trick.



I also took a can of diced tomatoes to add to the mixture and gave it a stir.



I then added all my chopped veggies and added in two small bowls of corn to give it some nice color.



After that I opened a can of kidney beans for some extra goodness, drained and rinsed them before adding them in.



Then I added spices. In this was a bay leaf, died basil, dried oregano, thyme, adobo, salt, & pepper.



When it started to cook and come to a boil I added in a small can of tomato paste to give it make a nice tomato overtone, as I love tomato based soup. It also made a nice smell that attracted my Gracie.



When everything was done I portioned it out into 1 cup servings for my lunches and two larger ones for Danny, one for his dinner on Wednesday as I have an office party and a smaller one for a lunch for him.

Hope you enjoy it! Sure is tasty!