Vegetable and smoked bacon soup

I basically made this up today because I was hungry for soup! It's really filling and only 273 calories a serving! You could make this less by substituting the butter for oil or buttery stuff like margarine, and removing the single cream altogether!

Ingredients:
50g butter
1 medium red onion, diced
1 tsp chopped garlic
200g frozen broccoli
200g frozen peas
200g frozen mixed vegetables (I used Iceland's - contains parsnip, carrot, red onion, swede)
500g potato, peeled and cubed
1tbsp paprika
1 litre vegetable stock
100ml skimmed milk
50ml single cream
4 rashers thick cut smoked bacon
Olive oil spray

Method:
Melt the butter in a large saucepan. Put all the vegetables into the pan and coat with the butter. Leave to sweat for 10-15 minutes.
Pour the stock into the pan with the paprika. Stir well. Bring to the boil then cover and simmer for 20 minutes, until the vegetables are tender.
While the soup is simmering, remove the rind from the bacon and cut into small pieces. Spray a frying pan with 4 sprays of olive oil and cook the bacon until crispy, then leave to one side.
Once the vegetables are tender, remove the soup from the heat and put into a blender and blend until smooth.
Pour back into the pan and gently heat again, stirring in the bacon, adding the cream and skimmed milk to thin the soup slightly.

Makes 6 generous bowls of soup.
Hope you enjoy!