This Rent Week Lentil Soup Will Save Your Wallet | Struggle Meals

Summary by Krater

The host demonstrates how to make a hearty, nutritious lentil soup using leftover vegetable scraps and pantry staples like canned tomatoes and dried lentils.

From the video

Answers: How do I make lentil soup with pantry staples?

• lentil soup
• pantry meal prep
• budget cooking
• making vegetable stock from scraps

Ingredients

• vegetable scraps
• water
• oil
• onion
• celery
• salt
• cumin
• brown lentils
• diced tomatoes

What it concludes

• Lentils make for a hearty, protein-packed, and shelf-stable soup base.
• Using vegetable scraps to make homemade stock extracts extra flavor before composting the vegetables.
• Salting soups at the end of cooking accounts for water reduction and prevents over-salting.
• A lentil soup made from pantry staples and scraps costs only $1.94 total or 32 cents per serving.