Soup maker vegetable soup.

Elegran

Germanshepherdsmum

You’ll only get four bowls from it Norah.

It depends how big your bowls are. I get six good-sized bowls from my soupmaker, Too much for one person to eat one after another, so I freeze most of it and always have a choice of several varieties in the freezer to microwave. The medium size of Lakeland's basic plastic freezer box holds two platefuls, so I eat two platefuls fresh and freeze two boxes full. (before anyone upbraids me for buying plastic, I have had these boxes for at least ten years.)

Those boxes are great, I use them to save or store many things.

I also use glass jars with lids.

No upbraiding. Everyone is different, even to food storage.

Elegran

Whether a soupmaker is for you depends very much on personal choice, so I don't know why anyone would seem to imply that it is somehow morally better to use a saucepan and a blender and laziness or gadgetry to use a machine that does both. When I had a house full of hungry teenagers, I used to make soup in large quantities, but now that there is only me, even 6 portions is a lot. Horses for courses.

I agree.

We're in the house full of hungry people category, the hows of some gadgets are interesting to me - I ask, learn "not for me" with no moral judgement, I know my kitchen capabilities well.

Horses for courses.

I would peel the courgette and use a fine stick of celery. I bought cooks celery last week, with thick stems and it made my soup maker veg soup bitter. I did the soup programme with bits. Luckily I had added a handful of lentils and next day whizzed the rest of the soup, it tasted nice after that and the lentils added a much better well-distributed taste

Love soup makers (I do) or not (some don’t) I think it’s probably the courgettes that made it bitter. Children tried adding cucumber to their vegetable smoothies. That wasn’t a good idea either.

I did have a soup maker but I prefer to make in my 'cauldron' and put in the liquidiser,currently have spicy parsnip,and butternut and sweet potato.

I use courgettes all the time and never found any bitter.

I make my lunchtime soup in my largest saucepan. Always add 5 veg oxos and 150g of red lentils. I never use potatoes as I find it makes the soup gloopy. But use sweet potatoes instead. It's my red lentil whatever soup. As I use whatever veg I have in . I make enough for 6 lunches and store it in the fridge in a large container. Because of disability I can't make fresh meals every day. Do the same with my dinner stew .

But we are talking about soup. I have made soup out of sprouts , broccoli and cauliflower. Tasted lovely . I use mint in my soup and salt and pepper. But any herb will add nice flavour. I grew rocket over the summer and it tasted lovely in soup.

The soup I am eating at the moment is made from 175g red lentils because I was low on veg. 168g onions , 844g sweet potatoes and 5 veg oxos. I always blitz my soup with a stick blender . It thickens in the fridge so add some water to thin it when I reheat it.