How to Make Healthy Crockpot Vegetable Soup
This delicious healthy crockpot vegetable soup recipe is so easy and yummy that it will please the whole family. With a multitude of colors and flavors, even kids will be enticed by this flavorful healthy meal.
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Healthy Crockpot Vegetable Soup
It’s the perfect time of year to bring out the slow cooker and make some delicious and healthy vegetable slow cooker soups. There are seemingly endless options of colors and combinations when creating a soup recipe. Which is why it’s one of my favorite foods.
I adore my slow cooker. I also love soup and it’s health benefits. With so many choices of ingredients and spices to mix up and slow cook together:
soup is a great healthy and cheap family meal that never has to get boring!
Crock-pot soup is a fast and easy way to get lots of real foods and all the different vitamins they include in one bowl. Not to mention they taste amazing, can be very filling without leaving you bloated, and soup digests easily.
Everyone starts thinking about using that slow cooker once fall hits. How could you not? The days become busy, shorter, and colder.
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Is homemade vegetable soup healthy?
Homemade vegetable soup is extremely healthy! The larger the variety of natural whole foods that you can get into one serving the better! Different types and colors of whole foods contain different nutrients. In a veggie soup you can mix together almost any variety of your favorite vegetables, legumes, and even fruits for a healthy home cooked meal all in one pot.
How do you make healthy vegetable soup?
Healthy vegetable soup can easily be made over the stove top or crockpot. Cube, dice, or mince fresh (or even canned) vegetables into your pot. Add in fresh or dried seasonings. Cover with a base of buillion, broth, stock, or pasta sauce and cook until all ingredients are soft.
What spices to put in a vegetable soup?
When creating your own spice mix for a vegetable soup there are some spices that flavor almost any veggie soup well.
- sea salt
- pepper
- bay leaves
- parsley
- garlic powder
- onion powder
- sage
- oregano
I add these flavorful spices to almost every home made healthy vegetable soup we create at our house! Don’t be afraid to try something new.
Some other delicious flavor options to add in addition to those listed above are: cumin, chili powder and paprika for a southwestern flavor mix.
Another idea is adding basil, rosemary, and thyme for a Italian flavored slow cooker soup.
What flavors and colors are in THIS easy crockpot vegetable soup?
This healthy slow cooker soup recipe is loaded with nutrients, flavors, colors, antioxidants, and spices.
- Bright orange carrots are packed full of vitamin A.
- The bright yellow nutritious corn is full of fiber which aids in digestion. Plus corn contains 10% DV of each folate, thiamin, magnesium, phosphorus, and vitamin C.
- Cooked cabbage, carrots, garlic, and onion are all great for detoxifying your body. This is a wonderful detox soup because it is loaded with so many healthy detoxifying vegetables.
How easy is this slow cooker soup recipe?
This is going to become a new favorite dinner recipe for every busy mom out there! Half of the ingredients are canned and the other half should be diced fresh.
This is the definition of a dump and go soup recipe. You can get it ready in the morning before your busy day (or even prepped the evening before). When you return home in the evening you will have a flavorful and nutritious soup the whole family will enjoy.
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So how do you make sure that your easy healthy slow cooker recipe turns out perfect?
There’s an app for that! Last year I found the coolest Crock-Pot
available. It’s a little pricey, but I really love this convenient modern take on a slow cooker. No need to rush getting home to be sure to switch it off so that your easy healthy slow cooker meal turns out perfect for your family. You can download an app and from your phone you are able to:
- adjust cooking time
- change temperature setting
- or switch to warm
Feel free to spend an extra hour at the park or stay late for that soccer game. And STILL be confident that you are returning home to a perfectly cooked healthy homemade meal in your Crock-Pot.
Ingredients
- 4 green onions + chives
- 2 large carrots
- 1/2 head of cabbage
- 1 large sweet onion
- 1 can pinto beans
- 1/2 can corn
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1 jar pasta sauce
- 3 jars water
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp cumin
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp oregano
- 2 bay leaves
Instructions
- Dice the sweet onion and carrots.
- Cube the cabbage. (I ended up using almost an entire head of cabbage when I made this recipe in my large crockpot. 1/2 for the small. Cabbage is a healthy, low calorie, and detoxifying way to fill the extra space in an enormous crockpot.)
- Mince the garlic cloves and green onions.
- Add all the cut up ingredients as well as the canned ingredients to the crock-pot.
- Cover with 1 jar of pasta sauce and add water on top until the slow cooker is full.
- Add the spices and cover.
- Cook on high 6-8 hours. Or on low for 10 hours.
- Remove the bay leaves, stir, and enjoy!
What other recipes do you want to learn how to make in your slow cooker?
I’m planning a low carb slow cooker roundup and fall foods roundup next next. Does that sound like something you’d love?
More Resources You’re Going to Love:
First off TOTALLY FREE:
- I have available a printable Ingredient Replacement Guide
Because you don’t have to eliminate your family favorites to move in a healthier eating direction! You simply need to be aware of ingredients and with this substitution guide you can still have all of favorites! Just slightly altered to add in nutrients and eliminate empty calories and bad fats.
- ALSO FREE is a Healthy Mom’s Snack Checklist
With this free printable checklist you will always have ideas for healthy, satisfying, protein packed snack on hand. You deserve more than munching on leftover goldfish and pizza crusts between meals. (I’ve been there!) This healthy snack checklist will ensure that you always have the healthy snack on hand that you and your kids deserve.
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