Crock Pot Vegetable Soup

Vegetable soup:

1 package of stew meat or equivalent (1 lb usually)
1 medium yellow onion diced or however you prefer it
1 can of green beans
1 can of corn
1 can of peas
4-5 peeled and diced potatoes (more or less depending on how many people you want to feed)
1 32 oz bottle of campbell's tomato juice (not tomato sauce)
garlic salt- to taste
salt & pepper - to taste
Add water if you need more liquid, all of the meat and veggies should be submerged under the liquid.
OPTIONAL: (But still insanely delicious!)
1/2 - 1 tsp of crushed red pepper flakes - to taste really
hot sauce- to taste- I use the chinese hot sauce called siracha hot chili sauce


Fry all of the meat with some garlic salt to taste and hot sauce. (optional) Fry it until there is a little brown crust on it. Don't cook it all the way through. Add the veggies and tomato juice to the crock pot (i use the juice from the can with the veggies) and stir. Add in salt, pepper, garlic salt and hot sauce to taste. Take it easy on the hot sauce and pepper flakes though, as it cooks it gets spicier! If the crock pot is on high, it should take about 4-5 hours. Cook until potatoes are at desired consistency.
Also: once you are down to about 1/3 of the pot left, put the crock pot on low and let it simmer and thicken up and it is great over white rice then!