What are your childrens fovourite soup?

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Hi
I am after some help.

I am trying to get my 4 year old DD to like soup! She is struggling at school (foundation) and I am hoping some soup will help give her some vital veggies and some energy.

Do you have any suggestions what I can try please? (I do have a soup maker)!

I make this one for my family and they all love it - 7 year old, 19 month old and fussy hubby! ;0)
www.eatdrinkcook.co.uk/vegetable-soup/

Carrot and tomato.

DS still doesn't like soup at all and he is nearly 7. He will eat a stew, though, I think the chunkiness is the difference - he dips bread into it and can pick out big bits of veg he doesn't like and just eat the bits he does. I make it with carrots and other root vegetables, nothing too recognisable, and then he eats more of it.

Minestrone, pasta and meatballs plus cheese and a tomato base is a winning combination.

They're not keen on pureed soups.

What's a soup maker?

I'm a Scot so soup is pretty much our national dish!

Dd's favourite that she'd have me make every other day and scoff is as follows:

1 medium butternut squash - cut in half, garlic cloves placed on flesh, sprayed with olive oil and roasted
4 large carrots
1 green pepper (she doesn't know about this cos she hates green anything )
Tin tomatoes (can use fresh but I'm a lazy cook and like using the juice as part of the liquid)
2 pints veg stock made with stock cubes

Scoop and mash the squash mashing in the garlic
Cook the rest in the stock while squash roasting
Blend when done but not totally puréed

Serve with crusty buttered rolls

She also likes carrot and coriander with basil
'Italian' tomato - tinned toms, garlic, basil, oregano, parsley, stock cube and soup pasta. She's loved this one since a baby.

We all love leek and potato but the kids particularly love this and so do I because it is so EASY and QUICK and GOOD!

Lentil soup
Throw these things in a pan;
1/2 lb lentils
1/2 lb carrots
1/2 lb onions
4 1/2 pints water
6 ham stock cubes (eek!)

And boil until the lentils are soft, about half an hour. Add half a tin of chopped tomatoes, and blitz. That's it. The tomatoes give it the sweet edge that I think appeals to the children. It's a handy one as you can obviously have it quite thick by adding more lentils, or thinning it down. I also love the fact that I always have the ingredients in. It's very tasty, I have made it with less stock cubes for the kids, and used home made stock to lower the salt levels but if I use the 6 then I use reduces salt ones.

I'm sorry to say that my dc's favourite soup is Heinz cream of tomato
But they also like spicy parsnip
I'm going to try the lentil recipe above

ooh a soup thread. My dc will eat anything in a soup. We had red lentil tonight - similar to bramblina but with sweet pots instead of carrot and a tin of tomatoes too (reduce the stock to compensate). That is a really good one for little dc I think as it is thick and fairly sweet with lots of nutrition. My dc also like broccoli, white bean and ginger. But some smaller ones might not like this. Parsnip is nice too with some curry paste if you like.

I get the dc to ask for a soup each, each week. I make it in the evening and put it in the fridge for the next couple of days for when they come home from school all ravenous. I am going to try pea next - I have a recipe to make it from frozen peas.

Pasta and bean soup
Chorizo and bean soup.
Need to be chunky.

Chicken noodle soup - chicken stock plus a few carrots and onions, then add cooked noodles.

Carrot, kidney bean and cumin soup (from the Girl Called Jack recipe book) also goes down very well.

Both mine loved either broccoli and stilton or cauliflower and stilton from a very early age. Dh hates both.

DS2's (4) current favourite is pea soup. Sautéed onions, frozen peas and stock briefly simmered and blitzed with an optional addition of teaspoon of mint sauce.
10 minute meal which is his 'best ever favourite' this week

DD loves beef and dumpling, like a slightly thinner beef stew, DS doesn't do soup.

Mine will eat most things, except he's never really liked soup at all, with the current exceptions of heinz tomato soup, and his grandma's homemade dhal.

I think it's the runniness that puts him off. He loves veg stew.

Chicken and rice
Chick pea, garlic and pasta
Ham and bean

Thank you!

Sweet potato and carrot: made with a kilo of veg, onions, a spoonful of minced ginger and stock.
Mushroom and puy lentil: use a punnet of mushrooms, a tin of lentils and stock.
Carrot and parsnip: with onions, potato and stock.
Broccoli and Stilton.
Butternut squash and tomato: roast the squash whole, then peel and de-seed, fry onions until soft, them add the squash, a tin of chopped tomatoes, cumin, paprika and stock.

Use a stick blender in the saucepan to get the consistency you prefer.

I cook up a huge pot of Mediterranean vegetable soup every now and again with whatever I have lurking in the fridge - usually peppers, courgette, carrots squash etc with red onion, tin of toms, plenty of herbs (add a teaspoonful of sugar to balance the acidity of the tin toms) and blitz it all up. (is even nicer if you roast the veg first but time doesn't always allow)
Mine however don't really eat it as a soup but love it as a pasta sauce, pizza topping etc or I use in lasagne etc in the place of tin toms/passata which is great as it has loads of flavour and lots of hidden veg.
It freezes really well, so I freeze it in a variety of pot sizes so I can get out however much I need depending on what I'm using it for...