Cut up and cook parnsips, onion, celery, and mushrooms in 2 Tablespoons butter until soft (add mushrooms in at the end of the cooking time). Remove from pan.
Add 1 Tbsp. of butter to pan and cook chicken. Cut up cooked chicken.
Cook Udon Noodles according to package instructions adding in the soup base packet also. Do not drain. Add the Mushroom flavored noodle soup to the designated Vegetarian crockpot and the Original flavored noodle soup to the chicken designated crockpot.
Cook frozen corn according to package instructions. Split cooked corn in half adding 1 cup to each crockpot.
Add 32 ounces of garden vegetable broth to each crockpot.
Add cut up cooked chicken to chicken soup crockpot.
Add 2 cups cooked lentils to vegetarian soup and 1 cup lentils to chicken soup.
Split cooked vegetables between the 2 crockpots.
Add spices: 1/2 tsp. thyme leaves, 1/2 tsp ground marjoram, 1/4 tsp. celery seed to each crockpot.
Add 1 tsp. soy sauce to each crockpot.
Simmer in crockpots on high for 3 1/2 hours prior to serving.