lentil soup brown rice added barley too baby carrot things and bay leaves seasoning like table spoon of chopped garlic. and other things dill leaves. and caraway seeds and Italian spice mixture salt pepper ok so 1/3 pound of barley dried 1/2 lb brown rice, dry, 2/3 lb lentil mixed together take for instance your large pot then we go a size larger then that .. being industrial size.. I found this pot in the garbage say like 18 years ago and it still works ,,, that is what industrial strength is all about ,,, da base... right we put a larger can of crushed tomatoes in the soup too. omg more more more