mothers' beefy vegetable soup

Ingredients

• 2 cups of liquid, leftover from making a roast in the crock-pot. this makes a perfect base to start, as it's already seasoned with the roast, beef broth, salt & pepper, a little garlic powder, beef broth and 1 pkg. of dry beefy onion soup mix. an onion.
• 1 cup baby carrots , sliced in half ( also cooked with roast - leftover )
• 1 cup english peas
• 1 can cream style corn ( 16 oz. )
• 2 cans veg-all or mixed vegetables ( undrained )
• 1 can diced tomatoes or 1 large fresh tomatoe ( chopped )
• 2 cups beef broth
• 2 cups regular v-8 juice
• 1 can tomato sauce ( 15 oz. )
• 1 - bay leaf
• 1/2 teaspoon thyme, dried
• 1/2 teaspoon each of salt and pepper
• 1 teaspoon chili powder or 2 tabsp. salsa - mild or to your taste
• 1 package dry beefy onion soup mix ( such as liptons )
• 1 can pork and beans ( undrained ) or lima beans or blackeyed peas ( 15 oz. size for all )
• 2 cups or more if you have it, cooked leftover roast beef ( shredded ) mother always cooked stew beef in her soup.
• - i like to fix mac & cheese and spoon some into each bowl and then pour the hot soup over it