The very beginning and meatless soups
To start a truely wonderfull meatless soup you should start off with a wonderful stock!!

Simple Vegetable Soup Stock
Ingredients:Oil - 1 teaspoon
Carrots - 2
White onions - 2
Celery stalks - 1 - 2
Parsley - 5 - 8 strands
Bay leaves - 2
Black pepper - 1 teaspoon
Salt - 1 teaspoon
Water - 6 - 8 cups

Chop the carrots, celery, and onions into 1 - 2 inch sized pieces.
Heat the oil in a stock pot to medium-high. Then add in carrots, onions, and celery.
Add in the black pepper and salt. Stir for 5 - 10 minutes.
Add in the parsley, bay leaves, and water.
Bring to a oil, and reduce the heat to low - medium, and let it simmer.
Skim off the foam every once awhile.
Let this cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour. Then strain the vegetable soup stock from the veggies. Gently squeeze the veggies to extract the soup stock.
Carrots, onions, and caller are the 'standard' vegetables used to making vegetarian soups stocks. However, there's a variety of vegetables that you can use to make vegetarian soup stock. Some other veggies you can try are mushrooms, cabbage, cauliflower, cucumber, bean sprouts, and etc...

You can use this vegetarian soups stock to cook all types of vegetarian soups.