Beef Stew

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 lbs stew meat (I usually get a beef round piece and cut it myself)
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
• 2 (10 1/2 ounce) cans mushroom gravy
• 1 cup v 8 vegetable juice
• 0.5 (2 ounce) packet Lipton Onion Soup Mix (I use almost the entire package)
• 1 teaspoon horseradish
• 4 medium potatoes, peeled and cut
• 6 medium carrots, peeled and cut
• 4 -6 boiling onions, peeled and cut (optional)