Wednesday, January 2, 2019

A Month Of Soup



We are starting off 2019 with a month of nutritious, hearty and delicious soups.  I thought it would be fun and thrifty to pull out all of our favorite soup recipes and make them up throughout the month of January.  I have a load of odds and ends in our freezer that need to be used up and I can't think of a better way to do that then to make soup.


Here are some of the soups I'm thinking about making:

Turkey Or Chicken Noodle Soup
Thai Curry Soup
Chili
Ham & Bean
Chicken Gnocchi
Minestrone Or Pasta Fagioli
Homemade Tomato Basil Soup
Clam Chowder
Asian Beef Noodle
Chicken & Dumplings
Hearty Beef Stew

I've done a couple of posts in the past of some of our favorite soup recipes.  You can check them out here and here.


Along with our various soups I will be making a variety of homemade breads and lots of fresh garden salads to go alongside.  Soup, salad and bread is a big hit around here and with January as one of our coldest months it will be a perfect and thrifty way to get warmed up and fill our tummies.


Could you do an entire month of soup?



18 comments:

  1. Happy New Year! How will you stay on your keto diet with the month of soups, bread and salad?

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    1. I won't eat the bread and we are putting pasta on the side instead of in the soup. Some I won't be able to eat and that is okay. I'll figure out something else for myself on those nights.

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  2. Oh, how I wish I could. But, while I am not much of a picky eater, soup is something I can't stand. As I am the resident chef, I get to decide the menus, so soup doesn't appear much. I might make the odd slow cooker beef stew or chili if I have plans to be elsewhere at dinnertime. Occasionally I will humor a request for chowder or apple cabbage soup, and rarely, very rarely, I crave a taco soup. I will make a split pea soup if I have leftover ham out of obligation, but again, only if I don't have plans to eat the meal. I truly dislike soup. Even the word makes my stomach turn a bit. I could serve salad and homemade bread every day for a month, though, and be happy!

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    1. Oh my goodness! Aren't you glad there are so many more options out there than soup?! LOL. Salads are my faves as well. Have a great day Meg.

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  3. Your soups sound good. I love soup, salad and bread. However, the rest of the family doesn't. They don't mind if I make soup once a week, but any more than that and they protest.

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    1. I get it. My girls are skeptical that we can go the whole month. We've done a whole week before but this is a first for us to try a whole month.

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  4. Happy New Year! I love soups and could do soup for month but husband couldn't/wouldn't. I can do soups about once every two weeks. He is better at eating soup for lunch but not for dinner. Paula in Kansas

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    1. Husbands like a bit more substance I'm sure. Happy New Year Paula. :)

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  5. I could absolutely do a month of soup! We have soup at least once a week around here, and I usually make some form of bread to go with it. It's cheap, filling, and nutritious, and super easy to make. I have an Instant Pot, so it's very nice to just throw stuff into it and walk away (in order to do other stuff, of course!). I had a friend once whose husband refused to eat soup because, in his words, 'Soup isn't a meal!' I laughed and said, "Guess he'd go hungry at my place, then!"

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    1. We eat a lot of soup around here. We'll see how we do on a month of it though. I'm thinking of trying some keto bread recipes to go with some of the soups. My girls had cornbread last night and I admit I was a touch jealous. ;)

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  6. I'm the only in my family who really likes soup, so probably not! I also can't eat dairy, so that limits some of the best soups. I love your plan!

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    1. I admit it's not for everyone. I'm curious to see how we make out.

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  7. This is a smart move with using the freezer bits and pieces. I could easily do a month of soup, because I truly love it. TheHub? Not so much. He is ok with it as an occasional meal but not daily.

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    1. We enjoy it quite a bit. It will take a lot of variety in order to make it through the month however.

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  8. I love soup, almost any kind. Some of the best soups are made with whatever needs to be used up in the refrigerator. I don't like food waste, so a kind of "stone soup" is great. My husband not only abhors soup, he dislikes anything even remotely "soupy," as he calls it! This includes sauces, gravy, broth, and so on. I don't understand him ;)

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    1. I personally can't imagine not enjoying a hot bowl of soup on a cold chilly day. Your hubby is missing out. LOL

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  9. This is my third day of eating chicken vegetable soup- I'm craving something with a little crunch now- so guess I could never do an entire month of soup but I love it. I'm going to try to make your Thai curry soup next week. I'm enjoying reading your blog.

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    1. Add some sliced water chestnuts to the curry soup and you'll have some crunch. I'm going to make some next week too. Enjoy Nan! :o)

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