If you have a lot of homemade soups, do you generally feel well?

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Do you have less colds over winter? Or recover quite quickly?
(Anecdotal survey to persuade me to make more home made soups)

Why on earth would you?

But you will have a lot of very delicious meals, though!

Do you mean if it is made from chicken stock or something like that? I have soup everyday for lunch (creature of habit), and get ill just like everyone else.

I feel less well when I'm not getting a good variety of veg so, yeah, I suppose all the vegetable soups help. Doesn't need to be souped though

Homemade soups are great, I eat them a lot in winter. They are a healthy and nourishing lunch (as part of a balanced diet!), are warming and feel satisfying and comforting, can be cooked with seasonal veg and also throw in any veg you have that is going past it's best so cheap and reduce food waste (so good eco and money saving credentials). Plus I get a slightly indefinable/irrational sense of happiness and wellbeing from doing homely things like making a big pan of soup.

So lots to like but i don't think soup has any particular immune boosting properties or will otherwise solve your life problems I'm afraid

I’ve read articles how soups are nutritionally dense, boost your immune system and generally raving on about health benefits.
I’m just pondering and wondering.

I find them warming and comforting in the winter, and being warm is being well to me. When I’m cold all I want to do is hibernate. Whether my physical health is better is debatable, but it probably helps my mental state.

If it's really veg laden then it'll boost your vitamin uptake if you're a bit of a veg Dodger normally. Lots of herbs and spices can go in too like turmeric and ginger which are supposed to help with immunity.

I suppose it depends on your normal diet

I can be lazy and just get sandwiches etc so a veg laden soup is probably far better for me in term of health and therefore I'll feel better long term if I kept that up than shovelling another ham sarnie in every lunchtime.

I'm not sure it's transform anyone's health but on cold, damp days there's little better for lunch than a good hot soup.

Yes, I think it's probably a case of what you're having the soup instead of that makes a difference rather than soup having magic properties.

If you're having soup with lots of veg and pulses instead of fast food or sandwiches and crisps etc, it's easy to see how it's a more nutritious choice.

We had home made tomato soup with Pringles yesterday, delicious but unlikely to supercharge our immune systems.

I read somewhere that soup takes longer for your body to metabolize than the same amount of whole veg, leaving you fuller for longer.

I eat lots of homemade soup, and am fairly healthy (last had a cold in 2015) but I don't think the two are especially related.

I eat roasted garlic and onion soup in winter, daily if possible. The sulphuric compounds in them are supposed to be good for boosting the immune system and warding off illness (not to mention vampire attacks!) and it could be coincidence but I can't remember the last time I was really ill.

I don't like soups
I am not ill very often
I do eat lots of veg though

My dsis makes loads of soups and her and her husband have always got something wrong with them .

I always feel smug eating homemade soup.

Does that count?

I like soup and I do make it in the winter, but I do find I end up with vast quantities of the stuff and often ending up chucking it away.

I can't seem to make a reasonable amount.

Eating a well balanced healthy diet, getting exercise and a good amount of sleep will help you be healthy, but it won't stop you getting sick totally!

Yes. I use home made broth and use ghee, with garlic and turmeric. It has helped with my gut problems too. Sometimes I just drink the broth.

I guess if you eat a lot of soups, you are well hydrated, have plenty of vitamin c( assuming they contain vegetables) and plenty of fibre.
Which would all help general health. Plus the general feeling of wellbeing involved in hot soup of a freezing cold evening. But I don’t think they have magic curative properties.

I find the number of colds I get is dependent on what is going round DC's school/clubs rather than on what I eat!

Yes they are a good way of eating veg I wouldn't otherwise eat. For example, I don't like parsnips but parsnip soup is nice.

I make loads of soup in the colder months and DH and I are hardly ever ill. Maybe a cold each every 2 years or so.

We eat a healthy diet generally though, which probably helps.

I get a great feeling of well-being and comfort from eating homemade soup!
I have soup most days in autumn and winter, and am rarely ill.