Melting Pot Soup - $9.85 a serving

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olive oil drives this basket at $8.49, 14% of the total. The next biggest lines are parmesan cheese ($5.99) and ground turkey ($5.49). $28.99 of the basket - 49% - is package remainder: food you buy because stores sell packages and recipes call for amounts. It does not vanish, it sits in your kitchen for the next meal.

• Simple Truth Organic® Extra Virgin Olive Oil · about 485 ml left, $8.24 of value
• 4C® Homestyle™ Parmesan Grated Cheese · about 145 g left, $4.26 of value
• Kroger® Sweet Potato · about 1211 g left, $3.55 of value
• Simple Truth Organic® Quinoa · about 364 g left, $3.20 of value
• Kroger® Grade A Large White Eggs · about 17 left, $2.63 of value
• Kroger® Whole Garlic Bulbs · about 3 left, $1.49 of value

“I lived in Ethiopia until my sister and I were adopted by my mother. In Ethiopia many families do not have enough food to eat,” says Aster. “I like to cook and have learned to make healthy and delicious foods. I now live in New England and when the weather is cold our family makes soup together. We first made this soup on a cold snowy Sunday. We chopped many different vegetables, made turkey meatballs, and added beans and pasta. All of the flavors go really well together. This soup has many different ingredients mixed together so I call it Melting Pot Soup.”

• 1 pound ground turkey
• 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 1/2 cup cooked quinoa
• 1 large egg
• 4 teaspoons dried parsley or 1/4 cup fresh parsley
• 1 cup whole-wheat pasta, such as rotini or farfalle
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 medium onion, peeled and diced
• 2 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
• 2 carrots, peeled and diced
• 2 celery stalks, diced
• 1 medium sweet potato, peeled and cut into small cubes
• 1 cup green beans, cut or broken into 1-inch pieces
• 6 cups low-sodium chicken broth
• 1 14.5-oz can of diced tomatoes
• 16 ounces fresh spinach, or 1 box frozen spinach
• 1 15-oz can red kidney beans
• Parmesan cheese

This recipe is credited to a partner program (The 2015 Healthy Lunchtime Challenge Cookbook), so we don't reprint its directions - read them on the archived original.

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