Total time: 6 hr 35 min • Prep: 20 min • Cook: 6 hr 15 min • Serves: 8 • Difficulty: Easy

This filling soup couldn’t be easier. Toss the ingredients into a slow cooker in the morning, and you'll be eating this delicious, almost effortless homemade soup for dinner. The kielbasa adds a smokiness to this soup. If you want more depth of flavor (and have the time), sauté the sausage in a skillet for 5 to 6 minutes or until browned. You can use whatever mix of beans that you like for this—creamy Great Northern beans as well as chickpeas, which have more of a bite, would both be excellent substitutions. Rinsing the beans helps reduce the sodium. If you’re watching sodium closely, you could also switch to low-sodium chicken broth and no-salt-added beans.