Cooking Chic: Whatever Vegetables Inside the Fridge Soup

Cooking on a college budget can be a challenge. Especially if you want to eat something more than  preservatives and don't want to eat the same thing every night. An extremely easy change up meal I've found is soup. Really the only extra ingredient to remember at the grocery store for this is broth. Personally I choose chicken broth, one box of this can make 3-4 meals for one college chic girl. This makes it a very budget friendly meal.

Step 1: Chopped any desired ingredients

The vegetables I pulled out of the fridge tonight were carrots, celery, broccoli, garlic, and spinach. I highly recommend garlic or adding garlic powder, it adds a lot of flavor to the broth. All of these vegetables were things that I would have in the fridge anyway for various meals and snacks, putting them in a soup just creates another easy cheap meal option that doesn't involve purchasing a lot more groceries than necessary.

Step 2: Soften vegetables in olive oil

To soften the harder vegetables, in this case the carrots and celery, I sauteed them in virgin olive oil along with the chopped garlic. Adding the garlic gives these vegetables great flavor. One of the great benefits of making your own soup is the ability to chose portion size and the ratio of ingredients. 

Step 3: Add broth and remaining ingredients

Next, simply the broth was adding along with the broccoli and spinach. Allow this to all simmer together for few minutes. Any kind of broth can be used for this. Also it is very easy to adjust how much soup is made in this recipe. 

Enjoy you're healthy soup and new favorite, easy, frugal, fast, meal. :)