vegetable soup

Ingredients For vegetable soup

• 3

  stalks celery, chopped
• 1 lg

  onion, diced
• 3 c

  water
• 5

  14.5 oz. cans beef broth
• 1

  8 oz. can tomato sauce
• 1/3

  4 oz. can totato paste
• 1

  28 oz. can tomatoes with juice, squished up
• 1

  5.5 oz. can v-8 juice
• 1

  14 oz. package frozen corn
• 1 1/2 c

  frozen peas
• 1

  14 oz. package frozen baby limas
• 2 c

  carrots, sliced or chopped
• 2

  small bay leaves
• 3 tsp

  garlic powder
• 2 tsp

  dried basil
• 3/4 tsp

  dried thyme
• 1

  level tbsp. sugar
• 3 Tbsp

  butter
• salt and pepper to taste