Slow Cooked Impossible Beef, Tomato, Veggie, Acini di Pepe Soup

• 1 - 12 oz. package Impossible LITE beef
• 2 - spicy Impossible sausage links, from a pack of 4, casings removed
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 cup chopped red onion
• 1 cup chopped celery
• 1 cup chopped baby carrots
• 1 - 28 oz. can crushed tomatoes with oregano & basil
• 32 oz. vegetable broth
• 2 bay leaves
• 4 oz. Acini di Pepe pasta, dry

Heat a large skillet over medium heat and generously spray with avocado oil spray. Crumble the sausage into the pan, breaking it up with a wooden spoon.  Add the Impossible beef and season with 1 tsp. salt.  Break the beef up into small bits, stirring the sausage and beef together.  

Add the onion, celery and carrots and saute until starting to soften, about 5 minutes.

Transfer the beef, veggie mixture to a crock pot sprayed with avocado oil spray.

Add the tomatoes, broth and bay leave and stir to mix well.  

Cover the crock pot and cook on low for 5.5  hours.

Add the pasta to the crock pot and cook until pasta is tender, about 20 minutes.  Keep on warm until ready to devour!!

Remove the bay leaves and enjoy!