Vegetable Soup with Mickey Sandwiches

So walking around the store I discovered a jar of Randall's Mixed Beans.  I had never heard of this brand before but the ingredients were shockingly simple.  Literally just beans, water, salt, and sugar.

So I picked up a jar and decided I would make some sort of soup with it.  I picked up some vegetable stock, large white onions, red pearl onions, shallots, celery, carrots, red potatoes and yellow potatoes.  As you can tell from my list of items I love onions.  They are one of my favorite veggies.  Sadly I don't have a recipe for this soup exactly because I just threw in a bit of this and that.  I used the entire jar of beans (undrained), a container of vegeatable stock, about 8 potatoes of each (red and yellow), 3 shallots, half of a very large white onion (it was about the size of a head of lettuce), about 10 red pearl onions, a stalk of celery, and 2 carrots.  Obviously it is all preference though.  I also added some dried onion flakes, dried garlic flakes, and pepper. :)

I decided to pack this for a lunch and I do have a microwave available so I would be able to reheat it instead of putting it in a thermos.  And here is the finished soup.  I let it sit on low on the stove for about 5 hours, but a crockpot would work as well, I was just too lazy to dig around to find my crockpot. :p

I used two separate containers for this lunch because I don't have a bento that would work (still in the process of finding ones I like).

I also got new toys!!  I got Mickey Mouse cookie cutters as well as Hello Kitty cookie cutters.  The Mickey ones are in this lunch. :)

I pack two butter sandwiches (unhealthy I know, but it's my cracker for vegetable soup), the right sandwich has colby jack cheese and the left has smoked cheddar cheese (delicious), I have two grape kabobs as well as strawberries and cantaloupe butterflies and flowers.  Also the little red thing on the top left is a plastic cocktail fork for the loose fruit. :)  Not pictured: my spoon, and a Chobani Champion yogurt tube (Strawberry flavored).

Well that's all for the day.  I'm excited that I am finally getting some gadgets to play with in the kitchen and make my lunches look a bit cuter. :)

I hope everyone is having a wonderful week and beginning of summer. :D

Veronica :)