My other soups were started with 1 cup of organic chicken broth and 2 cups of water. I just added the vegetables I wanted (celery, cauliflower, tomatoes, diced onion, chunked zucchini and squash, black soy beans) and added garlic salt, basil and parsley flakes. I tracked the carb counts for each of the vegetables and I put them in the pot. I started 2 pots thinking they would be small, one for me and one for hubby LOL. It ended up being about 13 carbs per pot; so I added cooked hamburger to one (vegetable beef soup) and leftover cooked chicken to the other (chicken vegetable soup). I cooked both for about 2-3 hours (had to add water as they simmered down). This ended up being really low carb since I divided each pot into 4 servings! Both were really good. For crackers I used a 2 carb serving of lavish bread that I had baked in the oven.