It is soup season is it not?! Here are 20 Easy and Healthy Soup Ideas which can be made stove top, slow cooker (aka crock pot), and instant pot. Soups can feed a crowd and are a great warm pick-me-up on a cold day. Let’s see if this inspires some new meals into your dinner cycle…
20 Easy and Healthy Soup Ideas
I’ll admit, soup hasn’t been in my regular dinner cycle – up ’til now. You see, I’ve fallen back in love with my slow cooker and have been enjoying a dump & go approach to dinner making (you’ll have seen it on my Instagram stories). Soup is great to make in my slow cooker!
My shameless soup recipe recommendations:
SLOW COOKER VEGETABLE SOUP (my current favourite soup)
SLOW COOKER CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP – GLUTEN-FREE
Soups can be hearty. Healthy. Easy. Kinda like a trifecta of family meals.
Recently, my husband asked me to start meal planning a more plant-based diet for him (i.e. less meat, more fruits & vegetables). Now I’m already cooking gluten-free (for me), lactose-free (for my daughter, and picky-eater (my 8 year old)…so sometimes I’m adapting one meal 3 ways already…so sure…why not add in plant-based! lol.
But soups…well…soups can fit all our food choices in one pot! Like that good ‘ol slow cooker vegetable soup recipe up there…it’s full-on vegetables…no gluten, no lactose, no meat (swap out the chicken stock for vegetable stock). My picker eater can dunk bread into the soup and that will make him happy. Soup can be a go-to when you have to feed different tummies!
20 Easy and Healthy Soup Ideas – the Pinterest possibilities
So, I’m only giving ideas rather than recipes because there are so many soup recipes on Pinterest (and the Internet). You and I can easily key something in and find it…but my challenge was figuring out what to type in that search box. Thus, this handy list of soup ideas…
- hamburger soup (I’m making this one soon…for me!)
- taco soup
- minestrone soup
- chicken and rice soup (one of my favs!)
- Italian sausage soup
- beef barley soup
- lasagna soup
- potato and leek soup (also one of my favs – I add a sweet potato in too)
- tomato basil soup
- broccoli cheese soup
- vegetable soup (see recipe above!)
- fall vegetable and quinoa soup
- french onion soup (I found a 20 hour slow cooker recipe…should I try it?)
- bean soup
- butternut squash
- split pea soup
- curried cauliflower kale soup
- lentil soup
- Thai coconut soup
- Chicken noodle soup (great for sick days)
I like Split pea soup, it is very affordable and easy to cook!
I really love making soup, I find it good for the soul! I have a big cauliflower right now so I might try the curried cauliflower kale soup! There are a lot of great choices listed.
Now that we’ll be getting colder weather I like to have soup and your list is really good. I’m especially going to try taco soup first
My favorite is vegetable soup