Vegetable Beef Soup

A good healthy vegetable beef soup can be made with your pantry staples (if you consider hamburger a pantry staple!). It's an easy, go to soup for me.

Ingredients:
1 lb lean ground beef
1 medium onion, finely chopped

1 can of petite diced tomatoes

1 can of cannelini beans (drained and rinsed)*

1 box of low sodium beef stock

2 cups of chopped fresh or frozen veggies**

1 cup chopped fresh Spinach

Heat 1 Tbls of Olive Oil in a large stock pot over medium heat. Add ground beef and onion and cook until meat is browned. If you are using very lean ground beef, the extra fat will just be absorbed into the meat and onions. Add remaining ingredients (except Spinach) and bring to a simmer. Simmer until veggies are tender. Add Spinach, stirring into soup until it wilts. Serve!

* Draining and Rinsing canned beans eliminates nearly 40% of the sodium content. This can be done with any canned veggies you may use in your cooking as well.

**Use any combination of veggies you like; carrots, corn, peas, mushrooms, green beans, zucchini. Even small potato or sweet potato could be used.