Quick Vegetable Soup

Mom's Quick Vegetable Soup

• 1/2 lb ground beef
• 2 large carrots sliced/chopped
• 1 large onion chopped
• 2 medium potatoes chopped
• (washed/I never peel potatoes)
• 2 stalks celery chopped
• 1 can diced tomatoes
• 1 packet of Splenda
• 3/4 cup frozen green peas
• 1 cup frozen corn (white shoe peg good)
• 1 can creamed corn (frozen creamed corn
• is best when you can find it. Comes in a tube
• like sausage. Use about half a tube)
• 2 cups vegetable or chicken broth
  1 cup of water
• Salt
• Pepper
• Garlic powder1 T. Basil

Brown ground beef, add carrots, onions, celery and potatoes. Add broth, tomatoes, Splenda, creamed corn and water. Stir in peas and corn after soup has simmered a while.

Great with Grandmothers Jalapeno cornbread, crusty bread or saltines.