Reddit reviews SOUP MIX - BEANS, PEAS, PASTA- 55lb

> You know the good soups?

I make a killer pea soup.

Starts off buying a whole smoked ham and cooking it for 4-6 hours. I like to use a 1:1 mix of water and beer to boil the ham. Once the ham is cooked take it out of the water and keep the water as a base for your pea soup. Add a good pea mix (something that looks like this is preferable but plain whole yellow peas or split peas can do too) that you've soaked for 24 hours, some shredded carrots, diced celery, diced onions, diced turnip, whatever other vegetable you like that's in season (i.e. cheap) and cook it for 3-4 hours. Once it's cooked, blend it to a cream-like texture with some nuggets and then add about 1/3 of your cooked ham, diced, back into the soup. Size the ingredients according to the size of your ham and how much water you need to cook it. Add a little pepper (no need to add salt, there will be plenty left from cooking the ham) and other spices you like and you got yourself a very hearty soup that'll fill you up and bring you tons of nutrients for very little money. It freezes well too so you don't have to eat a gallon of soup over a week.


Plus you got 2/3 of a ham left over to have a sandwich with your soup if you fancy that.

Here are a couple of soup recipes I've quite enjoyed before too:

https://www.emerils.com/125195/cold-avocado-soup

https://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/simple-thai-style-lemongrass-shrimp-soup-29351


Don't be afraid to experiment and spend some time on web sites like allrecipes.com or foodnetwork.com. If you want to really squeeze the value out of your food budget check out the flyers for your local grocery stores every week, notice what's on sale and look for recipes using those as base ingredients. It'll keep what you eat varied and cooking different types of ingredients using different types of cuisines will broaden your culinary skills and make it so you get more comfortable improvising. You can even make home-made version of the dish you liked to eat out! That way you control what goes in there and can make healthier versions if you want to.