Once you have experienced homemade broth it's so difficult to go back. It's hard to believe that I once thought a teaspoon of flavour mix added to a cup of boiling water was even a thing. All that salt? Don't get me started! 

What's happened now is I'm not buying chicken any more. Well not enough to support my broth habit. I looked at the rice yesterday and considered, water? 

"No. I just can't." 

"Buy a chicken?" 

That seems foolhardy to say the least. 

Then it hit me!

I have a bag of dehydrated veggies. What if I started with 1/2 cup of dehydrated veggies. About 10 cups of water. Maybe some celery. I have seaweed on the counter. Where is that bay leaf?

You get the drift.

I am making veggie broth. It's been up to a boil and down to a simmer twice already. Now it's cooling down for putting in jars. I don't know if this will work, but it's certainly going to help. So, next time I want to make rice, I won't have to fret over just water?