Thanks much, it sounds yummy!   and you're right the original recipe did not include carrots, they do contain lots of natural sugar.  As I recall, the original recipe had lots of onions and yes, green peppers, cabbage, celery, but no V-8.  I always have put in a huge can of tomatoes because I think it goes so well with the cabbage, and I always  use beef bouillon cubes.  I usually don't even add the Lipton soup mix but when I do, it is so much better.   nancy_mrn actually submitted a recipe for how to make the onion soup mix yourself!   I haven't tried it yet but will this week!  The recipe calls for sugar and I am going to try it with Slenda or Equal rather than sugar.
Anyway Chanel, thanks for sharing!  Your recipe makes a huge batch so that's great because I eat lots of the soup and to me the worst part is having to make a new batch every othe day, so this one will last a bit longer!  Good Job!!

Yes you do, and you WILL!!  Just think though...even  2 or 3 days is  better than nothing!  and personally those days are the most vital!  I can do it for a few days, no problem, but it gets hard after that, and I want to be able to spend the weekends with my husband 'enjoying' life, not eating cabbage soup!   So whatever you CAN do is better than nothing!  So I am resolved at having the weekends off and doing the CSD during the week.  and I can't have ONE kernal either...in fact, now I want popcorn!!!