Must try harder!

DrCarrie

Pan and a stick blender for soup...much easier and less space taken up.  Multi-use too.

beanielou

Another vote for MR soup maker.
I am on my second!

jwil

If you are not in the habit of eating soup, then there's probably not much point in spending money on one until you know you will use it.  Soup is really easy to make in a pan, and although I prefer mine chunky, a stick blender will do just as well.  If you get into it and make a lot, then that's the point it might be worth trying one.

Otherwise I'm sure it's another gadget that just sits on the side.  You can also make soup in a slow cooker if you have one.

I buy tinned soup and also make my own.  Tinned soup is very convenient and can be low cal so will help bulk up.

Sun_Addict

I’d been making soup for a few years before buying my soup maker so it’s a good idea to try the pan method first to see if it’s something you’d eat a lot of. I love my kitchen gadgets and get a lot of use out of most of them but there are a couple still in their boxes that seemed like a good idea at the time 😬

WinterWarrior

Gadgets are a bit like that! 

So any beginner soup recipes? 

Sun_Addict

I make carrot and red lentil a lot, it’s really filling. Fry a chopped onion in cooking spray the add a few carrots, 100g of red lentils, a tin of chopped tomatoes, a litre of veg stock, some rosemary and a bit of chilli powder. I sometimes put swede in as well if I need to use up. This one would take around 40 minutes to cook in a pan. You could blend it or leave it chunky. I have so many soup recipes I could fill up your thread with them 🤣🤣 Pinch of Nom website is a good place to look for low calorie soup ideas. 

beanielou

Leek & potato for me.

WinterWarrior

Thank you..I desperately need soup now!! 

dawnybabes

I love my soup maker (but I do love my gadgets) I bung everything in then take the dog for a walk, come home to hot piping soup 🥰

warby68

Another soup maker fan

Its a very non gadgety gadget. Hardly any parts, only a couple of settings and its not huge to store. Just a very easy and non-messy way to produce soup. Made soup for years in a pan with the stick blender easily enough so needed a bit of pursuading  but am a complete convert. For us it makes a quantity you don't get fed up of before its done too. I like home made soda bread with soup too and that's very quick/idiot proof but, alas, not so diet friendly.