Dea's Broccoli Cheese Soup

Broccoli Cheese Soup

This is a basic place to start your soup, each time you make it, the ingredients will change according to what you have on hand, if you are adapting it to meet the needs of diet restrictions, or what ever.

List of ingredients:
12 cups of water
4 chicken bullion cubes
2 tbs of french onion soup mix
1 diced onion
1 tbs of minced garlic
2 diced celery stalks
2 diced carrot sticks
2 fresh broccoli stalks
1/4 cup of diced mushrooms
4 peeled and diced potatoes
2 cups of diced ham
1 can of cream of broccoli soup
1 can of potato soup
1 can of cream of corn
2 cups of colby/jack shredded cheese
6 slices of American cheese
1/2 bag of frozen broccoli
8 tsp of sugar
1 tbs of butter
salt
pepper

Directions:
Start the 12 cups of water boiling
Add chicken bullion and french onion mix
Add garlic, onion and celery
While that's boiling on high, add the potatoes, mushrooms, frozen broccoli and carrots
Next add all the canned soups and cream corn
Then add the sliced and shredded cheese (this thickens the broth)
Season the broth with the sugar, butter, salt and pepper to taste
Let simmer all day
About a half hour before serving, add the fresh broccoli, it will brighten as it's cooking and add some firmness.



Here is a break down of the ingredients and their nutritional values:
Recipe name

Number of servings

Serves people

Ingredients	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein
Generic - Chicken Bullion, 4 Cube	32	4	0	4
Lipton - French Onion Soup Mix, 42 grams	140	8	3	2
Heb - Diced White Onions, 1 1/2 cup	50	14	0	2
Gilroy Farms - Minced Garlic In Water, 3 tsp	15	3	0	0
Celery - 1 Large Stalk 11-12 Inches Long, 2 Large 1in stalk	20	4	0	0
Potatoes - Boiled, cooked without skin, flesh, without salt, 4 large (3" to 4-1/4" dia.)	1,032	240	1	21
Carrot - Large - Raw, 2 large	60	14	0	2
Generic - White Mushrooms, Raw, 0.25 Cup	4	1	0	1
Cambell's - Broccoli Cheese Soup, 1 container (1 3/10 cups ea.)	250	30	11	5
Campbell's - Cream of Potato Soup Less Sodium, 1 container (1 3/10 cups ea.)	225	38	5	5
Aldi Happy Harvest - Cream Style Corn, 1 container (1 4/5 cups ea.)	315	70	0	7
Kroger - Cubed Ham, 1 container (2 cup (57g) ea.)	240	8	6	36
Generic - Kroger Value Frozen Broccoli Cuts, 0.5 container (10 cups ea.)	150	20	0	10
Broccoli - Fresh Raw - Vegetable, 2 Stalk (151.0g) appx 1/4 Head	102	20	2	8
Crystal Farms - American Cheese Singles (Slices), 0.5 container (12 slices ea.)	420	6	24	24
Aldi Happy Farms - Finely Shredded Colby and Monterey Jack Cheese, 0.5 container (4 cups ea.)	660	6	54	42
Domino - Sugar, 8 tspn	120	32	0	0
Butter - Salted, 1 tbsp	102	0	12	0
Spices - Salt, table, 1 tbsp	0	0	0	0
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Total:	3937	518	118	169
Per Serving:	131	17	4	6