Modified canned vegetable soup

Cross-posting from the DW community cookingforpeoplewhodont, whose current theme is "half-homemade," meaning recipes that make significant use of canned, frozen, etc., foods.

This is a slightly higher-energy and more-flavorful version of one of the canned soups I grew up eating. I came up with it shortly after I had the gall bladder surgery, when I had so little appetite that a teaspoon of sugar in black tea four times a day was a significant part of my total calorie intake, and I didn't have the energy to even think about more serious cooking.

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