Vegetable soup - easy diet friendly recipe that I can batch cook and freeze please

[Holymoly321]

Thats it really. Need an easy veg soup that I can cook in big batch and then freeze for easy diet lunches rather than pigging out of sarnies every day!

1 pack of fresh pre-prepared veg soup mix from supermarket (sometimes called 'seasonal veg mix')
some lentils
a stock cube or bouillon powder.

simmer for 1 and a half hours or put it in the slow cooker on low when you go to bed and it'll be ready in the morning.

whiz it up if you prefer a smoother texture.

Very easy!

I made this on saturday and it is deeelish if i say so myself!

Roasted tomato and sweet pepper soup.

Place cherry tomatoes (i used these but you could use ordinary) and sliced peppers in a roasting tin and pour some olive oil and dash blasamic vinegar. Roast until soft.

mean while chop some celery, an onion and a couple of carrots and sweat over a low heat on the hob until soft. when soft add a tin (or 2) of chopped tomatoes.Add lots of fresh basil.

Make up some veg stock.

When tomatoes and peppers are wekll roasted butnot black remove from oven and leave o coll. if you are fussy like me you can remove the skins, or leave them on.Chop the peppers up and the tomatoes if using large ones.

Add the roasted tomatoes and peppers to the pan, and mix well, stir for a bit. Add some veg stock to a decent consistency.

Blend or leave as it is, I blended mine.

One day, that sound lovely. I've done a similar one and it really nice. But i found this one sooo easy and really nice. Cheap and healthy. I've been having it every day this week.

3 tins of chopped tomatoes
8 oz red lentils
4 rashers of streaky bacon
2 onions
2 - 3 pints of chicken or veg stock
1 tspn brown sugar
s & p
olive oil

1. Chop and fry bacon and onion until golden
2. Add lentils, then toms and stock and season
3. Bring to boil and simmer for 30 mins
4. Blend

How easy is that, and mostly things you'd probably have in the house already.
You could use less bacon and lentils if you wanted even less calories. It makes such a large quantity the bacon cals are well diluted ifyswim. I happened to have wilting basil plant that i whizzed up with a couple of tablespoons of olive oil and i've kept it in the fridge to drizzle into soup.

If you used less stock you could use it as a pasta sauce. Oh i think i put garlic in mine aswell.

I posted this recipe elsewhere, not soup, but careful with the cals and v.nice

My diet conscious vegetarian lasagna.

1 aubergine
1 large courgette
1 yellow pepper
1 red onion
1 fat clove of garlic
S&P
1 tblspn of olive oil
1 jar of light pasta sauce
1 tin of chopped tomatoes
enough lasagna sheets(about 190grms) to do 3 or 4 layers into whatever dish you use.
1 pint of semi skimmed milk
1oz of butter
1 heaped tablespoon of plain flour
1 oz of lo fat cheese

Chop all veggies, crush garlic, add oil,and s&p toss and roast in a hot oven 20 mins or so until tender.

Meanwhile make white sauce, melt butter in saucepan, add flour, slowly add milk and beat with balloon whisk. Bring to near boil until sauce thickens. add s&p

Remove veg from oven, pour over tin of chopped toms and jar of pasta sauce. Mix well. No need to re-heat.

Put good layer of white sauce (about half) in bottom of dish (i use a square 9" pyrex that is 2"deep) add layer of pasta, layer of tom/veg mix, layer of pasta, layer of tom/veg, final layer of pasta then the rest of white sauce.

Grate cheese and sprinkle over top.

Put into 180 oven for about 30 mins. until nice and golden on top.

I normally cut the finished lasagna in half, one side does hubby for two meals, and the other half does me for three. I freeze what we don't use straight away in portions and often have it as a lunch at the weekend.

You'll have to work out the cals yourself to be sure, depends on the light pasta sauce (124 cals) or use an extra tin of tomatoes instead, how many layers of pasta you use and whether you managed to get wholewheat sheets! You could also reduce the white sauce a bit to save more, and leave off the cheese!

Please let me know if you try it, how it turns out.

Enjoy!