cheap soups reciepes/high food bill

cazspatch

Thanks everyone.

I will start my food plan tonight and include some cheap veg etc for soups. I may batch make some soup on the weekend so i dont need to use the SC during the week days.

Thanks again x

angelavdavis

No SC recipes, but I have a few suggestions that might help.

A popular one on here is leftover chicken soup from a chicken carcass. Boil up the carcass in advance in about two pints of water to make up some stock (you can add chopped onions, bay leaf, carrots, celery to flavour) then strip the remaining meat off the carcass. Drain the stock, retaining the vegetables, but disposing of the carcass leftovers.

Add some flour to the vegetables and stir in well. Add the stock back into the pot with the shredded leftover chicken. Bring to the boil to thicken and then serve.

I have also recently made roasted vegetable soup - just chop up whatever vegetables you have in with some peeled whole garlic, roast for 35-40 minutes. Add to stock and then whizz with a hand blender.

Another favourite here is minestrone. Again vegetables chopped, sweat in butter, add a little bacon and some italian herbs and garlic. Add 1-2 pints of chicken stock and a tin of tomatoes. Break up some spaghetti into small pieces. Allow to cook in the soup. When cooked, serve with bread.