soup night

Norman_Bean

Wow PasturesNew - you are a true MSE inspiration! :money: How much did that set you back? about 3p I bet!!! Fab!
Thanks Gigevamp - I think if I have a set day I will get more in the swing of making the soups - plus I have started doing monthly meal plans;)

zippychick

Hi Norman! I would have soup night quite regularly - I live alone. I don't have desert on a regular basis - more when there happens to be cake around.?

If i had soup with just veg and no pulses or carbs, it wouldn't fill my baby finger. :rotfl:A good lentil and ham/leek and potato/minestrone with pasta etc is a great filler. I try to avoid eating soup with bread every time as it is such a bread trap to fall into! So sometimes i will have a small bowl of soup with bread, sometimes a larger bowl of soup - but either way I feel full. I don't need to adjust the rest of my days food to fit in with that as "proper" soup is filling and satisfying (for me)

Off to check that soup thread now- must have missed it meself.

Once you get the jist of making soup, you will soon be able to make soup up according to what you have.

Thriftladys guide to soup

Pink winged guide to soup

I remember typing my own "formula" but I can't blimmin find it
Here's another thread - soup recipes

Norman_Bean

Thanks Zippychick - I've got carrot in the freezer and a single portion of pumpkin (which despite being created to my own dodgy recipe tastes nice) however on Monday I will start with something more filling - leek and potato!! Will have to splash out on some leeks but nevermind we have to have a treat now and again right!?

Will have a look at those threads - thanks again

E x

zippychick

Norman_Bean wrote: »

Thanks Zippychick - I've got carrot in the freezer and a single portion of pumpkin (which despite being created to my own dodgy recipe tastes nice) however on Monday I will start with something more filling - leek and potato!! Will have to splash out on some leeks but nevermind we have to have a treat now and again right!?

Will have a look at those threads - thanks again

E x

Mmmm i adore leek and potato:j. It's newly discovered as My Mum didn't make it when I was a kid.

You could try carrot pumpkin and butterbean or carrot and lentil?

Leek and potato soup - I use thriftladys method here

Little_miss_sunshine_2

We all love HM soup, a really nice one I've done recently is pumpkin (home grown, from the freezer), with chilli, veg stock and coconut milk- a recipe from the Sainsburys magazine I think.

We tend to have soup for lunch rather than an evening meal, with HM garlic bread. I'm going to try making my flat breads for a change, although I don't have a breadmaker.

frugal6

We call our soup day soup and pudding night. It's our main meal of the day. I'll serve the soup with homemade bread or rolls sometimes cheese scones. For pudding rice pudding with sultanas or a fruit crumble or eves pudding with custard something fruity and filling

ikkleosu

Thanks so much for this thread as I think it's given me a great idea.

On Sundays, DH spends all day with his best friend. They have a pub lunch together, visit a friend, and then come back here for evening meal before the rest of thier gang turn up for their gaming group in the evening.

This means every Sunday I have to feed an extra grown man with a large appetite, and I'm finding it increasinly difficult. (logisitcally, because he'll mention stuff he doesn't want and becuase I'm just begining to begrudge it a bit). Also, my DH doesn't have a huge appetite so often if I cook a Sunday type meal (roast meat, veg etc) Hubby is too full from their lunch to eat much.

Last week because it was the Superbowl and they were going to a chilli night to watch it I just made home made soup. DH loved it and said maybe we should have soup more as an evening meal.

And TA-DA I spot this thread.

So I'm thinking make Sundays soup night. I will save money, hubby can have chilli ro steak pie for his lunch without worrying about what I'm coooking and his best friend can just lump it!

Thanks for convincing me 2 grown men can have soup night.

Norman_Bean

Thanks girls for all the recipes - you know what I still have mountains of pumpkin in the freezer from one I was given way back in October so I could use that :j
Ikkleeosu - I'm glad I've been of service in a small way x Poor you having to feed an extra peep, no wonder you're beginning to begrudge it does the mate ever contribute anything? say wine or a pud or something?

Norm x

ikkleosu

Norman_Bean wrote: »

Thanks girls for all the recipes - you know what I still have mountains of pumpkin in the freezer from one I was given way back in October so I could use that :j
Ikkleeosu - I'm glad I've been of service in a small way x Poor you having to feed an extra peep, no wonder you're beginning to begrudge it does the mate ever contribute anything? say wine or a pud or something?

Norm x

He will often buy garlic bread or baguettes if it goes with the meal but that's it.

If I say I'm too tired, he'll offer to buy a ready made lasagne but Dh and I are getting a bit fed up of it.

Another reason the soup is a good move is DH is a very fussy veg eater, however will generally eat most veg if it's in soup (eg he hates onions but loves French Onion Soup! Men!). So more healthy too.

Norman_Bean

:rotfl:at FOS - how typical x
Sounds like Soup Night is way to go for us both ikkleosu! and sounds like H's mate isn't too perceptive ... let's hope he doesn't like soup

When you going to start? this w/e? I'm starting Monday with leek and potato (if not still snowed in ...)

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