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How often do you have homemade soup?

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Trufget · 02/02/2025 13:28

Just curious. I am always thoroughly impressed with myself when I make soup instead of buying it. Feel like Martha Stewart especially if I have whacked the bread maker out.

Just curious how often people make soup? Growing up my parents literally never once made it.

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Nellieinthebarn · 02/02/2025 14:41

In winter at least a couple of times a week, usually veg of some sort with lentils or beans. My DH and I have heart issues, and pulses are so good for managing cholesterol, and generally very healthy, but he doesn't like them, so they get bunged in any soup, stew or curry where they will be fairly undetectable.

Jeezitneverends · 02/02/2025 14:40

This time of year I make a big pot a couple of times a week, we’re all soup eaters here, I’ve just delivered some to my daughter too.

Im literally away to put on a pot of tattie &leek …I always make it in the pressure cooker (apart from minestrone) and use a lot of frozen veg

ilovesushi · 02/02/2025 14:39

Never. I would love to eat homemade soup but it sounds like a faff.

duc748 · 02/02/2025 14:39

Occasionally, but if you include dal, a lot more often.

NinetyPercent · 02/02/2025 14:39

Most weekdays in winter. I work from home and have lunch at home. I make a very simple lentil soup at the weekend and eat it throughout the week. This week I might make parsnip soup as my veg box has parsnips in.

Sid9nie · 02/02/2025 14:38

Make and freeze once a fortnight. Eat twice a week in the winter.

TheSeaOfTranquility · 02/02/2025 14:37

Snoopysimaginaryfriend · 02/02/2025 13:36

Recently been making a big vat on a Sunday and eating it for lunch about five days out of seven. I don’t mind my meals being repetitive!

Same here! I freeze it in portion-sized containers, so I can mix things up and use a portion from a previous week if I fancy a change. I love home-made soup. It's a world away from the stuff you get in a can.

Seawolves · 02/02/2025 14:36

Most days because I make loads for school lunches, my little boy is tube fed but has blended food rather than prescription milks. School won't blend meals for him so I make soup at the weekend for his school dinners.

MuskIsACnt · 02/02/2025 14:33

4/5 days out of 7 I’ll have homemade dip for lunch.

MinnieCauldwell · 02/02/2025 14:33

wavingfuriously · 02/02/2025 14:25

Often want to but never get round to it...lack skills

You only need a pan, a stick blender and a Delia Smith recipe, go for it.

Shop bought is just salty gloop.

Itssofunny · 02/02/2025 14:32

I make soup several times per week, as does my mum, as did my grandmother. It's a family obsession!

TwirlyPineapple · 02/02/2025 14:32

I personally wouldn't ever make it, but my husband makes it once a week for him and our son. We have a soup maker so it's a quick, cheap and easy meal. I'm not sure if he'll keep doing it in summer, but there's no real reason why not.

JBJ · 02/02/2025 14:31

I go through phases with soup. Tinned, I o let like Heinz tomato and have never been able to make one that I like more. I do love homemade leek and potato soup though, and will sometimes make a batch weekly, then forget about it first a few months. Can't stand meat in soup though!

Pinksmyfavoritecolour · 02/02/2025 14:31

I make a batch most weeks in winter, portion it up and freeze it, and send it to work in husbands lunch bag each day in a yeti flask, he gets cold on site and it helps warm him up a bit, just made leek potato and bacon for this week for him.

Shodan · 02/02/2025 14:31

I'm planning to make more soup over the next few months, since I now have a nifty new blender thingy.

Up until now I make it when I've had roast chicken, or when there's been random veg left over that I like and others don't (celeriac, butternut squash for example) but it's too much of a faff to get the big blender out regularly.

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 02/02/2025 14:30

When it's cold one a week. Kids and I love it, husband refuses to eat soup for dinner so he sorts himself out

Snowdropsaremyfavourite · 02/02/2025 14:29

Once a month or whenever I have surplus vegetables. I'll always freeze a few portions too because there's nothing like being clueless as to what to cook on a week when you're really tired and then you open the freezer and find a home-cooked batch of soup. I also freeze curries and other meals for this reason. Even better if you're ill and can't be bothered to cook from scratch.

buffyfaithspikeangel · 02/02/2025 14:29

I make a big batch of the same one about every 2 weeks
My favourite and it's easy and quick

Ankleblisters · 02/02/2025 14:28

Two or three times a week in cooler weather. Never in warmer weather: big hearty 'everything' salads for lunch every day instead.

BeyondMyWits · 02/02/2025 14:27

We tend to have "tomorrow is shopping day" soup ...
Take veg left in fridge, roast it, add stock, blitz it.

SnowdropPancake · 02/02/2025 14:27

About every other week - tends to be whenever we have nont managed to eat all the fresh veg in time and so it's turned into soup.

RedRoss86 · 02/02/2025 14:26

Probably once a week.
The kids love it so it's an easy after school lunch.
Veg / leek & potato / tomato & red pepper are the most popular in this house.
If I'm feeling energetic, I'll make minestrone 😅

Our local veg shop has a chopped veg counter and have a 'soup mix' offer. So I can get a couple of scoops of pre-chopped veg & have homemade soup in no time 😋

abnerbrownsdressinggown · 02/02/2025 14:26

Once a week or so? Tend to make a back and then freeze for a quick weekday lunch.

wavingfuriously · 02/02/2025 14:25

Often want to but never get round to it...lack skills

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