Strictly the soup isn’t cheerful and it isn’t orange soup. It’s orange-coloured soup. There is a big difference.
However, it is cheap.
I bought a bag of ready chopped vegetables, added a stock cube and water, threw in a couple of sliced leeks from the garden and seasoned with black pepper and dried thyme.
Total ingredient cost: less than £1 for 6 mugs of soup. To make the soup even cheaper I could have used a pan and a £5 stick blender.
Effort required: minimal – I just loaded the soup maker and went back 21 minutes later.
Taste: very good even though I say so myself. Everybody drank their mug.
Lessons for next time: buy the right vegetables – I should have selected the pack for soup (with leek or onion) rather than the pack for mash.
It was just what we wanted with the outside temperature close to freezing.
My husband uses those soup packs now and then when he doesn’t have the time or inclination to chop veg by hand. Very tasty results.
I resisted them for years but they really do make life easier, and presumably use up some of the unsaleable “ugly veg”. 😉
Great misleading title. Soup looks good, too
Though I distrust gimmicks I’m growing to like the soup maker more and more.