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Crazy Cheap & Easy Dinner Recipe #2 by Emily-Creamy Chicken & Wild Rice Soup
Today’s guest chef is also a woman I love and one of my best friends! I am excited to have her today and also excited that she puts up with me. 
Emily Hill is a wife, mother, entrepreneur and writer…and desperately trying to stay sane! When she’s not driving carpool, cleaning crayon off the walls, scraping dried macaroni off the floor or hiding in her closet, she enjoys entertaining readers with her random ramblings on is this REALLY my life?. She is a contributing editor for Boutique Café, SassyScoops.com and Rocky Mountain Moms Blog. Soon she will be a contributing writer for TodaysMama. You can also find her guest posting on sites like Make and Takes, Mom It Forward, I Never Grew Up and petit elefant. Diet Coke and chocolate make it all possible.
“There are only a few things I like about winter: hot chocolate, Christmas lights, snow on Christmas Eve, holiday parties and soup. The cold weather is the perfect time to add delicious soups to your weekly menu. We have a handful of family favorites, and though some take a couple hours to reach perfection, a few of them are ready in a fraction of the time. This recipe was given to me by a good friend and it’s always a hit. I love it because I have all the ingredients on hand and my family loves it because it’s a creamy, chicken-filled soup.
Hope you enjoy it!”
Creamy Chicken & Wild Rice Soup
5 to 6 cups water
1 box Rice-A-Roni Long Grain & Wild Rice mix
1 envelope Lipton’s Chicken Noodle Soup mix
1 cup shredded or chopped chicken breast
1 can cream of chicken soup
Salt and pepper to taste
Optional
Diced onion, carrots and/or celery (I usually add about ½ cup onion and 1 cup carrots and celery when doubling the batch.)
Bring water to a boil. Add dry rice and soup mixes and boil for 10 minutes. (I would add your veggies here too so they have a chance to soften.) Add chicken breast and cream of chicken soup. Boil 10 more minutes and season with salt and pepper. Serve immediately.
P.S. For those who keep up on their food storage, this is a great recipe if you want to rotate your canned chicken.
P.P.S. We have a family of six so I always double this recipe; we end up with a few cups of soup leftover—perfect for my husband’s lunch the next day!
P.P.P.S. If you have a smaller family, feel free to double this recipe—it freezes really well!
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Yum! Looks good, Emily!
I’m liking your crazy cheap & easy dinner recipes! This one looks delish and nutrish.
Love you too, babe! Thanks for the shout-out and thank you for letting me guest post this week. This is a really easy, yummy recipe and I love that I usually have everything on hand. Plus it doesn’t take hours like some soups!
Oh! And by the way, the amounts for the optional ingredients are when I double the recipe. If doing just a single recipe you might want to cut the onion down to a 1/4 cup and the carrots/celery down to 1/2 cup. But do whatever works best for you and your family!
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Looks really good Emily!
Sounds sooooo good…my family will love this! Thanks for these awesome recipes!
Mmmm!
that looks pretty freaking good…
Wow!! That does look SUPER easy, Em! What a great recipe! Will put it on my to-try list asap.
Sounds yummy and easy! I have a wild rice soup that you have to cook the wild rice for an hour beforehand. Forget that!! Can’t wait to try this!
Thanks for that, and for any readers that are having trouble chopping onions without the crying, here’s an incredibly easy tip – put them in the fridge for a few hours, then chop them straight away after taking them out! No more tears! I found some more onion soup recipes here if anyone wants to try some more variations.