Do you have a recipe you can share? Whenever I've added barley to soup I only get about one good meal, leftovers tend to have the barley absorbing all of the broth (which is still delicious, just not soup any longer)...I suppose I could cook the barley separately, keep it in the fridge, and add it to the soup prior to reheating...hmm, I too have a box of barley in the cupboard and I just made bean and potato soup yesterday