Clean Eating Beans And Barley Soup

This soup is so fabulously filling and comforting all at the same time, that I can’t help but make it again and again during the colder months.

This is one of those soups you always wanted to come home to as a kid on a day when you were soaked with rain from head to toe. A day where all you could think about was getting home after school and sitting with mom at the table talking about everything that had happened in your day. Feeling safe, secure, loved and well nourished.

Amazing how good, nutritious foods can do that for us, isn’t it?

Clean Eating Beans And Barley Soup
Makes approximately 16 cups (I didn’t measure, I just know that my pot holds 34 cups, and my pot was about half full when I finished making this)

Ingredients
8 cups veggie stock
2 Tbsp. marjoram
4 stalks celery
3 large carrots
2 cans Cannellini beans (white kidney beans)
1 package frozen peas (1 lb.)
Barley (precooked separately – I cook mine in my rice cooker)
Salt to taste (Not included in nutritional information)

Directions

Step 1 – Place your veggie stock, herbs, celery, carrots and frozen peas into your pot and bring to a rolling boil.

Step 2 – When the veggies feel soft and cooked through (or however you prefer them), add the beans. Cook just long enough to warm the beans.

Step 3 – Put about 1/2 cup of barley into a bowl, and top with soup.

Eat and Enjoy!

Munchkin Helpers:

If you have little ones, here’s how they can help (With close supervision, of course).

Since all ingredients will be put into a hot pot, it’s not recommended that little ones help with this recipe. Although, you could get creative and let them put everything into a bowl that you then pour into the pot. Get creative so they can help.

Nutritional Content
1 serving = 1/2 cup barley & 1 cup soup

Calories: 216
Total Fat: 2 gm
Saturated Fats: 0 gm
Trans Fats: 0 gm
Cholesterol: 1 gm
Sodium: 445 mg
Carbohydrates: 44 gm
Dietary fiber: 8 gm
Sugars: 3 gm
Protein: 8 gm
Estimated Glycemic Load: 18

The good: This food is low in Saturated Fat, and very low in Cholesterol. It is also a good source of Dietary Fiber and Manganese, and a very good source of Vitamin A.

The bad: None

Nutritional Information estimated at Nutritiondata.com. Data may not be accurate.

Caution: Any time a child is in the kitchen, they will require close supervision. Munchkin Helpers suggestions should be applied with common sense to your own child, taking their own capabilities into account. Do not assume that because it says here that your child can do something, that they can, in fact do it. Please use common sense when in the kitchen with your child(ren).

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