Would have been five stars if there was even a meager attempt at making this recipe healthy... Pros: REALLY easy to make; versatile; difficult to mess up. Cons: Check out the nutritional values - I think we can all figure out where the fatty culprit is in this recipe. I ditched the Bob Evans sausage roll and used chorizo instead. Chicken and turkey sausage means WAY less fat and fewer calories - and it made the soup nice and spicy as well! Everything else was pretty much by the book, although I needed to add way more than 14.5 oz of beef broth to make it soupy and not stewy. This will definitely be a staple of mine, although I will be tinkering with the recipe to make it healthier (more fresh veggies instead of canned, beef broth substitutes to cut out some sodium - 77%??? Blech!). As is, though (minus the gross sausage roll), it's an easy soup to have on hand for emergency "oh no! I have nothing to cook with!" evenings.

I give this 5 stars but was considering 4 stars because as other reviewers wrote, it needs a lot more broth to make it a soup. I used three cans of broth instead of one. I also used three large Italian sausage links, removed from their casings because that's what I had on hand. I added 1 teaspoon each oregano and basil, and a dash of crushed red pepper at the end, and this was really, really tasty! Great for a cold winter's night!

I used Aidells Sundried tomato sausage it added some really good flavor! just 1/4 each sausage... we don't like regular sausage in it but love the recipe. I also used great northern beans and white kidney beans for the different texture and it brought addition flavor.

4.5 stars on this....I doubled the broth and added carrots and some garlic...really good for how fast this recipe is.

This soup is very tasty & not hard at all. Very thick - does fine with half the macaroni, or a little more broth.

yummy

very simple and very good. we ran it as a soup of the day at my restaurant and it was a hit. probably keep it as a menu item now

Very quick and simple to make. Since we don't eat pork, I substituted Italian turkey sausage. I'm giving this a 4 because I think it was lacking some flavor. When I make this again, I will use basil and oregano to season it up.

This was great! The whole family loved it. I used Beef Consomme instead of regular beef broth and just added extra water. Also added minced garlic, omitted the zuccini and added french cut green beans. Spiced it up with a little crushed red pepper, basil and oregano. Awesome!

Really good, quick and easy. Great flavor... my husband loved it. Me too.