How often do you have homemade soup?

[Trufget]

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.

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

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

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

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.

Most weekdays - I wfh and usually have a variety of soups in the freezer in one-person pots so I can just defrost and eat. I tend to make it alongside Sunday supper, and sometimes use a specific recipe, but more often than not leftover veg from the week together with some chillis or curry powder to perk it up a bit.

Once or twice a fortnight probably. After a roast chicken dinner and then as a way to use up the veg in the fridge.

Whenever we have soup, it's so much nicer then shop soup and very easy to make a batch and freeze some. Weekly at the moment as it's soup season!

5 lunch times a week.
I have a soup maker so great for veg past its best or even frozen veg

Once a week. We have the ninja soup maker and it's so easy.

I make it for lunch most days. So probably 5 x a week. It’s just so easy and a great way to get extra veg and lentils
( I add lentils most of the time as we’re veggie )

Most days when it's cold. Usually use a stock cube though. Would only usually bother making my own stock if going to be cooking something like stew where you can really taste it.

Nearly every lunchtime here when the weather suits it. When it warms up, I flip between omelettes and salads of various types.

Lots of different soups, most made up as I go along. Soup maker or pressure cooker, depending on what it is. Pan if it's minestrone.

At least once a week in winter. Main meal soups, usually very thick, not blended, lots of seasonal veg plus one or more of red lentils/pearl barley/orzo - or if it’s a mulligatawny, rice.

I do make the odd blended one, curried parsnip or Thai-style pumpkin, but that’s only right after Halloween.

We eat homemade soup quite a bit, both my OH and my Sister are brilliant soup makers. Mum even bought my OH a really good blender a while ago. He makes my favourite for me, Spicy Parsnip, even though it’s one he’s not keen on. Good for weight loss as well, providing you don’t pile into the bread. Bought soup tastes rubbish after homemade.

Sis makes batches to freeze using slow cooker.

I used to make it all the time, at least once a week. DD will not touch soup though so I don't make it often nowadays.

whenever I've got leftover veg / stew etc. I made a stir fry the other night and massively over catered (as usual) so the next day I made the leftovers into a Ramen with the addition of some broth and noodles.

Today I made a cheesy bean stew, using up the veg from the fridge - will probably have another portion, as is, tomorrow, but the rest will be blitzed into a paste and frozen in portions to form the base of soups - basically, again, just add stock and seasonings to taste. Easy peasy.

@Trufget I started off with this one Lentil and bacon soup recipe - BBC Food
and then just left out the bacon after a while.
Or thought I did, on re-reading it, I realise how far I have strayed from the original recipe over the years. Maybe I should try the original recipe again 🤔

Now

• Packet of soffrito mix from waitrose (mix of diced carrot, onion , celery,,,)
• Can of tomatoes
• cup of well washed red lentils
• seasoning (salt, pepper, garlic chilli, stock cube, turmeric, random herbs)
• any random vegetables hanging about

same sort of process as the BBC recipe - fry off the vegetables, add the lentils & seasoning, then tomatoes and some water, make it smoothish with a wand style blender after cooking for half an hour.

Because I mostly take it to work, and sometimes freeze it, I don't put a lot of water in when I make the soup, so it's quite solid in texture. I add water to get a soup consistency when I prepare a bowl to eat.

Once I forgot the stock cube & it was incredibly bland - I just added lots of salt and it was fine... makes you realise the main component of stock cubes
Great with chopped cheese added just before you use it.

the soffrito mix is a real game changer - takes out all of the prep time as you just chuck the pack in. As I live on my own, just buying one carrot etc is a real faff.

I like mutti canned tomatoes - If I use cheaper ones I add tomato concentrate if it looks a bit anaemic.

I think the lentils give it a heartier feel than just vegetable soup - its really filling.

I make it roughly once a week as my dd is a big soup fan. Plus it’s so easy!

I'm 51 and had my first bowl of homemade soup yesterday.

So roughly once every half a century.

A few times a month. I often have soup for lunch, will make it Monday for the week. Though haven’t since before Christmas probably. But we’ll have it for dinner several times a month. Tonight it’s creamy turkey (from Christmas leftovers), lentils and wild mushroom soup.

A couple of times a week DH likes making it, favourites are mushroom and Stilton and broccoli.

Just eaten some homemade leek and potato soup for my lunch with some (bought) sourdough bread. The only bread I bother making these days is soda bread as it’s so quick.

At least once a week. Currently using up the last of the Christmas parsnips to make a favourite Waitrose recipe, we’ve also had leek pea and watercress soup (Waitrose recipe again), tomato and lentil, and a mixed vegetable one in the last fortnight.

I used to have a soup maker but didn’t get on with it, I prefer to sauté the veg first which soup makers don’t do. I make mine in a Le Creuset casserole dish, or sometimes the pressure cooker.

I don’t like shop soups, home made are much nicer.
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About once a week in winter.
Often have it for lunch.
Don’t buy ready made soup often

Almost daily. Or at least 4 x a week.

Pea and Spinach
Lentil and Carrot
Root Vegetable (home made chicken stock after a roast)
Butternut Squash and Sweet Potato

I sometimes throw in half a can of beans- barlloti or black eyed beans.