Making Soup.. Split Pea

Making Split Pea soup for the 1st time. So part of our life changes that has been going on in our home now for about 6 months involves eating better. Now don't get me wrong we have never been the people who just open up a box of chicken nuggets and toss them in the oven not happening at our house. Just not my thing to do that. I was the to be mom (years before K came) vowed to feed our babe healthy and smart from the start. From years in gymnastics I just grew up watching what I ate until a few years ago and then stopped. Well after thinking about things and feeling unhappy about food I figured out my problem was I wasn't eating what my body needed. I was eating more fat then I was used to and not really thinking about it. Now I still made our meals just didn't think much about it like looking at it from a pyramid point of view. Now K was a different story I have always kept up with his calorie needs for his proper growth. Well now it was time to get the whole family eating better again and knowing what we are putting in our bodies and knowing that we are feeding ourselves with what our bodies need verses eating food just because it's dinner. So we are becoming one with our food. Yeah that sounds weird but it's true we are what we put in our bodies. So here goes with Photo's one of my favorite dishes.

Yes I will post more as I think about it but not going to be a weekly thing.

I started with going to whole foods to gather my Organic Split peas but I forgot to look at how much Pea's I was going to need. Yes I ended up getting more then needed but I have since made this again.
I had the hubs chopping a bag of organic whole carrots and celery and onion while I put in the chicken broth, water and tossing in leafs. Use whatever leafs you have for an outdoors flavor if you like but I used Bay leafs. a little of marjoram and added the pea's and tossed in the Ham bone. put the lid on and let the cooker do it's thing.

The Start


About 3 hours of cooking..almost done

in my bowl about to be enjoyed. I LOVE ground pepper in mine so added a loveable dash.

my bowl above is a serving of this dish (300 calories) it's really thick and filling.

K and Hubs enjoyed the dish with grilled cheese. Don't have a photo but it was Bread sprayed with olive oil lightly and then a thin slice of cheese (2 oz) and grilled and cut in half (363 calories)

Total cost per serving
SOUP $0.87 Cents <-- That's with using 75% of organic things
Grilled Cheese $0.13 Cents <-- whole wheat made from scratch bread non-organic block cheese and oil