{"id":12591,"date":"2026-09-10T09:40:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/?p=12591"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:40:41","slug":"slow-cooker-italian-meatball-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/slow-cooker-italian-meatball-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Cooker Italian Meatball Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none \" src=\"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-content\/gallery\/recipes\/SlowCookerItalianMeatballSoup.jpg\" alt=\"Slow Cooker Italian Meatball Soup\" \/><br><br \/>\n<a class=\"shop_ingred\" target=\"_blank\" href='https:\/\/shop.pricechopper.com\/store' rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Shop Ingredients  <\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"icoDL\" src=\"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-content\/images\/ico_Print.png\" alt=\"download\" title=\"Print Recipe\" onClick=\"window.print()\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/slow-cooker-italian-meatball-soup\/emailpopup\/\" onclick=\"email_popup(this.href); return false;\"  title=\"Email This Post\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-EmailIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-email\/images\/ico_email.png\" alt=\"Email This Post\" title=\"Email This Post\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"recTitle\">Slow Cooker Italian Meatball Soup<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\">Prep: 5 minutes<br \/>\nSlow Cook: 2 hours 45 minutes \u2022 Serves: 8 <\/span> <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"recIngre\"><span>2 <\/span>cans (14.5 ounces each) <strong>PICS petite diced tomatoes with onion, celery and green bell pepper<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>1\t<\/span>container (32 ounces) <strong>PICS unsalted chicken stock<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>1\/2 <\/span>(40-ounce) bag frozen Italian-style bite size meatballs (about 40 meatballs)<br \/>\n<span>1\/2 <\/span>teaspoon <strong>PICS salt<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>1\/2 <\/span>teaspoon <strong>PICS ground black pepper<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>1\t<\/span>bag (10 ounces) <strong>PICS frozen chopped spinach<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>2\t<\/span>cups dry <strong>PICS ditalini<\/strong><br \/>\n<span>\t<\/span><strong>PICS grated Parmesan cheese<\/strong> for garnish (optional)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\"><span>1.<\/span>In 6-quart slow cooker, stir tomatoes with their juice, stock, meatballs, salt, pepper and 1-1\/2 cups water; cover and cook on high 2 hours or low 4 hours.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\"><span>2.<\/span>Stir in spinach and pasta; cook on high 45 minutes or on low 1 hour or until pasta is tender. Makes about 12 cups.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recPrep\"><span>3.<\/span>Serve soup garnished with cheese, if desired.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"recNut\"><br \/>\nApproximate nutritional values per serving (1-1\/2 cups):<br \/>\n416 Calories, 16g Fat (6g Saturated), 33mg Cholesterol, 1127mg Sodium,<br \/>\n47g Carbohydrates, 6g Fiber, 8g Sugars, 1g Added Sugars, 21g Protein<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shop Ingredients &nbsp;&nbsp; Slow Cooker Italian Meatball Soup Prep: 5 minutes Slow Cook: 2 hours 45 minutes \u2022 Serves: 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","category-soups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12652,"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12591\/revisions\/12652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pricechopperready.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}