I LOVE this soup!! It’s a hearty, filling soup that is only 4 Weight Watcher FreeStyle smart points per serving. This soup takes chili and tacos and puts them together. You can fill up your slow cooker with this soup, eat it for dinner, and then enjoy the convenience of eating the leftovers for lunch for the next couple of days afterward. (or if you are like me you will eat it for breakfast and lunch the next day.)
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Now, on to today’s recipe. Are you ready for some taco soup?!
Here is what you need:
1 lb. lean ground beef (at least 95% lean)
1 c. chopped onion (1 medium sized onion)
1 can (14-15 oz.) Mexican-style diced tomatoes
1 can (10 oz.) tomatoes with chiles
2 cans (14-15 oz. each) beans (kidney, pinto, black or chili)
1 can (11-16 oz.) corn
2 c. water
1 pkg. (1.25 oz) reduced-sodium taco seasoning
1 pkg. (1 oz) ranch dressing mix
Optional: chopped avocado, light sour cream,
Reduced fat shredded cheese, pico de gallo or salsa, fresh cilantro, and tortilla chips
Here is what you do:
Spray a skillet with cooking spray and place it over medium-high heat. Add the ground beef and break it up with a wooden spoon (or mix n’ chop), stirring for about a 1 minutes.
Stir in onion and continue to cook, stirring often, until the ground beef is brown all over and the onion is soft, about 4 to 5 minutes. Drain excess fat.
Transfer the browned beef and onions to the slow cooker. Add the tomatoes, beans, corn, water, taco seasoning, and ranch dressing mix.
Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours.
Serve with option garnishes as desired.
6 (1-1/3 cup) servings
4 Weight Watcher FreeStyle Smart Points per serving.
Taco Soup
Ingredients
- 1 pound lean ground beef (at least 95% lean)
- 1 cup chopped onion (1 medium sized onion)
- 1 (14-15 ounce) can Mexican-style diced tomatoes
- 1 (10 ounce) can tomatoes with chiles
- 2 (14-15 oz. each) cans beans (kidney, pinto, black or chili)
- 1 (11-16 ounce) can corn
- 2 cups water
- 1 (1.25 ounce) packet reduced-sodium taco seasoning
- 1 (1 ounce) packet ranch dressing mix
- Optional: chopped avocado, light sour cream, Reduced fat shredded cheese, pico de gallo or salsa, fresh cilantro, and tortilla chips
Instructions
- Spray a skillet with cooking spray and place it over medium-high heat. Add the ground beef and break it up with a wooden spoon (or mix n' chop), stirring for about a 1 minutes. Stir in onion and continue to cook, stirring often, until the ground beef is brown all over and the onion is soft, about 4 to 5 minutes. Drain excess fat.
- Transfer the browned beef and onions to the slow cooker. Add the tomatoes, beans, corn, water, taco seasoning, and ranch dressing mix.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 6 to 8 hours.
- Serve with option garnishes as desired.
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Elsie says
Love this taco soup. How msny calories
Alisha Hughes says
275 calories. I just added in the nutrition facts. 🙂
kamtram says
This is “advertised” as 4 Freestyle WW points but when I put the nutrition info provided here into my WW calculator it calculates 8 points.
Alisha Hughes says
Hmmm… I am thinking it’s possible we are using two different calculators. There is a calculator on the WW app that allows you to plug in the nutrition facts to get the # of smart points a food is. There is also an option to do a search for a food and get the number of points. There are 200 zero points foods now. Weight Watchers has created a recipe builder that takes in account zero point foods in a recipe. When using the recipe builder you enter in each ingredient and the # of servings of the recipe and it gives you the number of smart points per serving. I am thinking maybe you are using the nutrition facts calculator and I am using the recipe builder calculator. Weight Watchers suggests using the recipe builder when doing a recipe. It does take a little bit more time, but I use the recipe builder to be consistent with what Weight Watchers is doing. Thanks for asking. ?
Jessica says
If you use chicken wouldn’t be zero points?
Alisha Hughes says
Actually, it would be 1 SP per serving. Ranch seasoning mix is 2 SP and the taco seasoning is 4 SP, so between those two things you would still have 1 WW SP per serving… Still, sounds like a very smart idea to me and I definitely think you should try it! 🙂