Hamburger Soup

YUMMY for us grown ups anyway....Smells delicious when you come home to this cooking when you haven't eaten all day! Sorry, no picture this time. I forgot.

Original Recipe:
Slow-Cooker Cookbook by Debbie G. Harman

2 lb ground beef
3 potatoes, peeled and chopped
3 carrots, peeled and sliced
2 celery ribs, sliced
1/2 onion, chopped
1 tsp celery salt
2 tsp beef bouillon
8 cups water
1 16-oz can corn
Salt & Pepper

Brown ground beef with salt, pepper, and garlic powder to taste. Drain fat. Combine meat and remaining ingredients in slow-cooker. Cook on high 3-4 hours or low 6-8 hours.

My version:

1 lb ground beef (already had it cooked and in the freezer)
5 small potatoes, peeled and chopped
4 large carrots, peeled and sliced
3 celery ribs, slice
1/2 onion, chopped (already had an onion chopped and in the freezer - just added half the bag)
2 cubes beef bouillon
7 cups water (because my slow-cooker was already full)
1 16-oz can corn
salt and pepper

Didn't have Celery Salt, so I just skipped that ingredient. Also, I don't and also don't think that my family needs that much meat, so I cut it down from 2 lbs to 1 lb. 1 pound was PLENTY/Just Right. I made up for it with more vegetables :-) which I do like and believe my family can't ever have enough of.

Opinions:
Me & My husband really enjoyed it. I didn't seem to put in enough salt for this size of a soup, but we added some and ate it with saltines and we were good.

My boys didn't care for it. I'm assuming it's because when I usually make soup/stew it's with chicken or beef chunks and this was just regular hamburger. Plus, I didn't thicken the juices at all with any corn starch or flour, so it may have been runnier for their taste. I was surprised they didn't just gobble it up like they do my other soups. My one year old is also teething right now and hasn't been eating well for the past two weeks anyway.

I plan to try this one again at another time - even if I end up eating all the left overs myself. I'm okay with that because I really enjoyed it.

Weight Watchers = 2 points plus value for 1 cup (4 points for 1 1/2 cups)