Tomato Barley Soup

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Delicious, nutritious soup, and quite filling! 

Ingredients

• 1 cup Barley (or 1/2 cup according to taste)
• 3 large Tomatoes (chopped)
• 1 cup Mushrooms (of your choice)
• 2 large bunches of Baby spinach
• 1 large Onion (chopped)
• 2 Garlic cloves (diced)
• 1 red Pepper (chopped)
• 1 Carrot (chopped)
• 3 cups no-sodium Vegetable broth (or water)
• 1 Bay leaf
• 1 tsp Cayenne pepper
• 1 tsp Basil
• 1 tsp Thyme
• 1 tbs Olive oil
• Sea salt (optional)

Directions

Heat pot with olive oil add chopped onions, red peppers, carrot, garlic, mushrooms. Cook for 5 minutes. Add vegetable broth, barley, tomatoes, bay leaf, cayenne pepper, basil, thyme and salt.  Let cook until soup thickens and barley is soft. Add spinach and serve.

Some Health Benefits

Barley helps nourish cells against damaged (cancer) growtheyes. Its fibers help the body digest, absorb and eliminate the food we eat. Good for the digestive system and bodies that should lose some weight! Barley's mineral content also supports blood (against diabetes for example), bone and muscle health.

Mushrooms help the maintain healthy blood sugar levels. It assists the body to process and produce energy from the food we eat. Mushrooms are also a boost to healthy organs fighting cancerous cells especially in the prostate - making it useful against prostate cancer.

Tomatoes, like Barley and mushroom, fights cancer and enriches the blood, helping balance blood sugar (against diabetes) boost eye and skin health from inside. It nourishes the heart and helps the body prevent strokes and balances blood pressure (against hypertension). It also assists in restoring bone mass (countering osteoporosis). it nourishes and flushes the kidneys  helping to prevent gallstones and kidney stones.

Carrots also enrich the blood, support eye health and help in digestion.

Spinach boosts the immune system, the nervous system and brain health. It also shares the other ingredients properties that insure blood, eye, skin and digestive system health. Like the others, spinach is a balm for cell health against cancer and inflammation.  

Garlic and onions aid in restoring health to swollen cells (against inflammation) and cancerous organs. They help break down foods, fight toxins and unhealthy bacteria and help heal wounds and clears scars. Onions are known to help repair black people's (brown) skin where there are hypertrophic scars.    

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