Slow Cooker Bean and Beef stew

We have lots of dried beans in our pantry which we rarely cook.The other day while I was cleaning the pantry my hubby suggested we use these beans. I was wondering if I had to cook one bean dish a day to consume so many different types of beans. Hubby said why don't we make some bean soup (which he is good at making but doesn't have the time to) so I decided to make a bean and beef soup with some veggies.
Our internet was down that day so I couldn't go online to check any recipes so I ended up making my own version. You will find many different ones online. To be honest anything that you cook in a slow cooker tastes good so I was not worried. I had a can of Hunt's tomatoes which was supposed to go bad in two months and I had no clue why I had purchased it as we don't eat canned food. I thought I should add it in here and use it up.

Ingredients:

2 cups Bean mix (you can use the store bought mix but I just mixed different beans like Garbanzo, Kidney, lima, black eyed peans, big white beans, red lentils, whole brown lentils, whole yellow peas etc.) Soaked in water for atleast 6 hours
4 carrots peeled and cut into big pieces
1 potato peeled and cut (optional I didn't add it)
1 can Hunts Tomatoes or 2 big tomatoes chopped into small pieces
6-8 cloves of garlic chopped
lamb/Beef cut into small pieces fat cut out and washed (use cuts for stewing)
1 tsp dried thyme
1 tsp dried basil
1 tsp dried oregano
2 bay leaves
6 peppercorns
1 tsp Coriander powder
1 tsp Cumin powder
1/2 tsp turmeric
Salt

Soak the beans/lentils for atleast 6 hours in water. Discard the water and wash them once before use.
In a slow cooker add  the garlic, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, meat, beans, all the dried herbs, peppercorns, bay leaves and the spice powders. Add around 1-2 cups of water and some salt. Close the slow cooker and set on 10 hours slow cooking (I did 6 hours slow and 4 hours high).
You will smell the flavors blend and the whole house will be filled with the flavors of the hearty bean soup.
Once the soup is ready adjust salt mix well and enjoy.
The soup is very filling so I didn't serve it with any bread.

Note:
You can skip the meat and only add root veggies like carrots, potatoes, butternut squash, sweet potatoes etc.
Some people add 2-3 tbspn of peanut butter for flavor - it's the African bean soup recipe.
If you don't have a slow cooker you can make it it a high pressure cooker or just in a pot on the stove top. Just make sure you soak the beans for longer preferably overnight.
I did freeze some soup for later use and it was handy when we didn't have time to cook and were starving.

**Apologies for the messy bowl I just poured the soup in the bowl and clicked the pic will do a better job the next time.