French Onion Soup

It's surprising how many things you can come up with for dinner when you're running out of groceries. I had a few small potatoes left, some onions that were going to go bad soon, and a bunch of Herbalife soup mix samples. So I made the above.

Slice up potatoes and throw in crock pot
Season to taste (s&p, garlic, dried onions)
Slice up onions and add to pot
Since I had them, I mixed up about 8 packs of soup mix (each contains about 12g protein) with hot water (about 32 oz) You can use regular chicken broth.
Pour it in the pot and stir.

After an hour of cooking on high (depending on how hard the potatoes) it's ready to serve.
Shred up some romano or other kind of cheese and put a thick layer of it on top.

Since I used protein soup mix for mine, it's like a meatless dinner that will fill you up.

Italian Wedding Soup In Crock Pot

I got this from www.flylady.net but I changed it by taking out some ingredients. I like it better this way. Plus, you don't really have to 'cook' any of it, just heat it up.

Italian Wedding Soup In Crock Pot

12-15 1/2 oz frozen meatballs (quartered)
6 cups Chicken Broth
1 bunch spinach, (stems removed)
Garlic Salt, to taste
lemon pepper, to taste
1/4 cup Romano cheese
1/4 cup tiny pasta,

Pop the meatballs in the microwave for a minute or two on defrost, so you can quarter them.
combine all ingredients in crock pot and cook 3 hours on low. If the pasta is added during the last hour of cooking, you will see pasta, The first time I made it, I put it in at the beginning and it thickened the soup some.

This freezes well too.