Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup

One thing that I recently tackled that I need to do was to make dinners for a couple of families with new babies. It was great to get that done, and I know what a blessing it is to receive meals when you have a new baby in the household!


For both families that I had to cook for, I made homemade chicken noodle soup. Because I made these on different days and used my big 12 quart stock pot, I was able to feed my family both nights with some of what was left. (One of the nights, we also shared with neighbors, and another night, we gave the leftovers to my grandma.)


This isn't a set recipe, because you have to do some tasting and judging for yourself. One of the benefits to that is that you can add more or less of different items, depending on what you like best.

The ingredients that I used (for our 12 qt stock pot, mind you, with enough to feed a couple of families -- you can certainly cut down on the amounts for a smaller pot):

• 1.5 lbs of chicken breasts
• 2 bags of Inn Maid noodles (my Mom says these are the best, so that's what I use too!),
• Celery
• Carrots (I used baby ones, because that's what I had in the fridge)
• Chicken Soup Base -- we use L.B. Jamison's Chicken Soup Base -- very good and worth looking around for!
• Shhh...I also added in two cans of Campbell's Double Noodle Chicken Noodle Soup at the end (just because....well...I wanted to)

Step One:

Fill your pot with water and drop in your chicken. Boil until chicken is white and cooked through. At that point, take it out of the pot and allow to cool slightly.

(Remember -- don't get rid of the water that the chicken has been cooking in! Just set it aside because you will add everything back into it.)

Step Two:


While waiting for the chicken to cook in the boiling pot, chop up your carrots and celery. Chop up as much as you want! For the large stock pot, I chopped up enough veggies to fill a cereal bowl.

Step Three:

Once the chicken has cooled just a bit, chop it up! You can judge what size chunks of chicken you would like for your soup. We like nice sized chunks of chicken in ours.

Step Four:

Put all the veggies and chicken back into the pot, and add in the noodles as well. Just follow the directions on the package.

At this point as well, I usually add in a decent size spoonful of the soup base. (Because I planned on adding in the Campbells soup at the end, I didn't add a ton of soup base.)

Step Five:

Once the noodles are done, I add in more water (I like to have a full stock pot, as long as I'm doing the work), as well as stick in that Campbell's soup. Then, it's time to do some tasting. At this point, I just taste and decide if I want to add more soup base or not.

This soup is just amazing, and I love that I can feed so many people with a meal that seems to make everyone smile!

And do you know what makes me smile about it? Eric has changed from saying, "I love your Mom's chicken noodle soup," to saying, "I love your chicken noodle soup." Oh sure -- it's the same soup, but I always love when I feel like I have one more recipe from my Mom mastered.

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