gail's homemade vegetable beef soup

Ingredients For gail's homemade vegetable beef soup

• 2 pkg

  stew meat (may use ground beef made into cooked meatballs
• 2 Tbsp

  cooking or olive oil
• 1 tsp

  lawry's season salt
• 4-6 c

  water to boil stew meat-enough to cover well
• 3 md

  potatoes, cut into cubes boiled until nearly done
• 4 lg

  carrots, cut into rounds or 1 inch slices and cooked until almost done
• 3-4 c

  water enough to cover potatoes and carrots
• 1 can

  diced tomatoes
• 2 can

  tomato sauce 8 ounces each
• 1/2 c

  corn-canned, frozen or cut off cob
• 1 can

  veg-all or mixed vegetables
• 1 can

  whole, sliced or diced potatoes
• 1 can

  green beans
• 1 can

  carrots, canned (optional)
• 1/2-1 tsp

  black pepper-coarse ground
• 1/2 tsp

  season salt-optional
• 3/4 c

  large elbow macaroni or rotini-cooked (firm) according to package directions
• 1 can

  beef broth-optional
• 1

  bay leaf-optional
• 1-2 dash

  pepper sauce-optional