Stone Soup

My son attends Joy School and one day they all worked together to make "Stone Soup".  He came home raving about it and begging me to make it for dinner that night.  So, I called the teacher to get the recipe only to find I only had one of the ingredients (potatoes).  I was about to break the bad news to my son when I realized I actually did have all of the ingredients in my food storage, so I quickly threw it together and it was a big hit!  Here is the recipe I used, although I admit I didn't exactly measure the ingredients.  This is one of those things that you can easily throw together according to your own tastes without getting it wrong. 


STONE SOUP

Stone (optional ;)
4-5 Cups water
3-4 tsp beef bouillon
1/2 cup FD corn
1/2 cup FD peas
1/2 cup FD green beans
1/4 cup FD celery
1/4 cup FD onion
1 potato, diced (or potato dices)
1/3 cup carrot dices
1 1/2 cups FD ground beef
1 cup instant rice

1 tsp thyme
1 bay leaf
salt and pepper to taste

Clean the stone and place it in your pot (optional of course).  Add water and bouillon and bring to a boil.  Add all other ingredients and simmer about 10 minutes or until all ingredients are heated and rehydrated.  Enjoy with cheese sprinkled on top.

In thinking about how much my son loved this book and accompanying meal, I realized that this could be a great food storage meal in an emergency.  Keep the book Stone Soup with your food storage and in an emergency you can read the book together and then have kids help assemble their own stone soup and have a great time eating their creation.  It would be a great diversion from whatever crisis is at hand and also help get the kids to eat their veggies!