How often do you have homemade soup?

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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.

Most weeks in winter. We have a Thermomix so it’s very simple to make soup with any slightly aged vegetables hanging around.

Weekly. I save veggie trimmings in the freezer to make stock. I clear out older veg for the soup. I make extra sofrito or mirepoix when I'm prepping vegetables and freeze it. This week's will be Three Sisters Soup with Squash, Beans and Corn.

Most Sunday mornings then it is my work lunch every day.

Every lunchtime except in summer, with a few oatcakes or a roll.

It's easy to make with lentils and whatever veg is in the fridge, leeks, carrots, spinach etc. I live alone so a potful lasts some days.

It saves having to think what to eat at lunchtime. Dinner is more varied!

I make chicken noodle soup and lentil soup on a fairly regular basis. They're pretty easy to make and taste a lot better than tinned.

Every single week or sometimes 2 or 3 times!

I'm lucky enough to work next door to an old fashioned tearoom where the lady who runs it, makes delicious soups 😊

It takes minutes to chop up veg, pour over stock then just leave it to simmer away. You can either have it chunky, blended or part blended. It is probably the least faffy thing to make.

Pretty much every weekday in winter! I also make my own sourdough. I love cooking.

Once a week at least in winter. Just finished off a batch of minestrone and have made some yellow split pea and frankfurter soup, more of a hearty stew really. Last week I made Stilton and celery soup and leek and potato.
My mum used to make soup, but not as often as I do. Dad used to make it a lot after mum died, and would freeze batches along with stews and casseroles, sort of homemade ready meals.

Rarely - if I have a vegetable on its last legs that I can't face using in a stir fry or a visitor with food dislikes or allergies as most bought soups contain gluten or milk products. Passata is so expensive now it's as cheap to buy cheapest tomato soup

I make two different soups each weekend and then myself and DH have it for lunch during the week, it's a healthy and quick lunch for us both.
ATM it's usually root veg, spicy lentil dhal, minestrone or a mixed bean and chilli one.

I make soup one or twice a month.
I was brought up on soup, there was pretty much soup going every day.

I usually make minestrone, variations of lentil or cockaleekie.

I used to make it at least once a week. Hardly ever now as toddler isn't keen and prefer finger food for the baby plus the soups i make are probably a bit too low calorie for them. I need to get back into making it really. I hardly buy ready made soup as it's such an easy thing to cook so begrudge paying extra for a ready made one.

PS, my ‘whatever I’ve got’ soups, are known in the family as ‘dustbin’ soups, so called by my DM when she was skint and using whatever she had - she was a very good cook, though.

I once made a big pot of ‘dustbin’ (multi-veg) soup for dds and friends after they’d all been playing out in the snow, and were both cold and starving.

A day or two later one of the girls (a non Brit) came and asked me for the recipe for my ‘garbage’ soup, since she wanted to give it to her mother! 😂
I had to tell her, no recipe, it’s whatever I’ve got!

The only faff is prepping the veg, I don’t mind it as I listen to a podcast and find it quite therapeutic to have my hands busy. Once it’s all in the pot you can forget about it apart from the odd stir.

In winter I make a pot every Sunday I eat it for easy lunch during the week and the kids eat it for after school snack as we have dinner later after all their clubs etc. This week kids have been learning about Chinese New Year so we made chicken noodle soup 🍜

ShaunaSadeki · Today 14:16

I make a big vat of whatever veg is looking at but tired in the bottom of the fridge

That's my tactic, too. I usually do a chicken based one at least once a week, we have a gallon pan, which is great.

I put 1kg chicken thighs in, with a medium onion and salt, then cover with boiling water, which may need topping up. Bring it to a rolling boil, then on a low heat on a small ring for 1 hour 20. I skim the froth with a spoon, this needs to be done 3 or 4 ti.es and I get the dregs out with an old tea strainer.

I get the thighs out to cool and discard the onion. I put whatever veg I've chopped into the stock and simmer, mixing in herbs and seasoning. I skin and shred the chicken and add that for the final few minutes.

A teaspoon of crème fraiche in the bowl goes well.

I started with this recipe (I don't always add the chilli, sometimes roast carrots or butternut squash)
Surprised how easy it was

I've literally just eaten a bowlful.
I always mean to make a massive pan of it for the week to come every winter weekend. It actually happens every 3-4 weeks.

Usually variants on tomato soup, butternut squash soup or mulligatawny, which is the food of the gods.

Ok, going against the general view, here...I have made my own, but I prefer tinned. There, I have said it. My favourite soup is tomato. I tried making it when we had a glut of home-grown tomatoes and it just... wasn't as good.

Making soup from scratch every day? I make a big pot that'll last a few days and or freeze some

I just don’t get soup, unless you eat it with with heaps of crusty bread and thick butter. Obviously only homemade.

not for me as I have a good stone to lose.

What does a Thermomix do? Several people have recommended them.

Bloody hell, that looks like full on evening meal level faff to me.

Whenever I start to feel a bit poorly.

Homemade Cream of Chicken soup really can't be beaten.