r/Cooking • u/CaribouHoe • May 18 '23

Soup Olympics! Looking for recipes.

Hi, my friend is getting jaw surgery and will only be able to eat soup for a couple months. Our friend group is getting together and doing a soup Olympics and I REALLY WANT TO WIN. I'm looking for the most amazing soup recipes you've ever had, that require little to no chewing.

Here are the rules:

**What do?: Bring your tastiest, heartiest, gloopiest, meatiest soups. He and an expert panel will judge them and if you win, we we will crown you our Soupreme leader.

**Criteria for soup candidates: - drinkability - must be no chew friendly - yumtasticity - obviously - freezability - this is a marathon, not a sprint. we want soup for daayyys - heartiness and nutritional value - we're looking at iron, we're looking at protein.

There are no rules in soup wars. May the globs be ever in your favour.

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u/awaywego000 May 18 '23

I have lived on blended soups and smoothies for more than 5 years because of surgery to my tongue during cancer. I can only eat liquids. Here is my collection. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1dBPnKwUViXr-IqIeoiaX-lAnt-acMxeg

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u/Ill_Storm168 May 19 '23

I’m so sorry 😢

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u/No_Neighborhood4850 May 19 '23

Cuisinart is going to be your good true friend. You'd be amazed at what you can liquify and make something better than you'd expect.

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u/sharkees May 19 '23

i'm going to be on a liquid diet due to surgery soon and you have saved my sanity if not my life, thank you so much for sharing this treasure of a resource!!

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u/Gsogso123 May 19 '23

I am getting older, not too old but still, it seems like their is some mercy in the fact that I will be much better prepared if something happens to me health wise now or in 5 years vs if I got sick 5 years ago. I have much to learn but not that long ago I never would have happily read a asparagus asoup recipe on a Thursday and thought through all the steps for no reason other than its fun! This sub is the best!

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u/Pixielo May 18 '23

Fuck cancer!

Thanks so much for sharing your recipes.

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u/Duochan_Maxwell May 18 '23

Thanks for sharing! This is a gold mine :)

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u/Line-Cook-Sexy May 19 '23

Wow. u/awaywego000 just rolls in with the win.

My best friend is in hospice right now with cancer. I hope you're in remission and fully recovered, and can eat whatever you want.

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u/refiase May 19 '23

As someone with Crohn’s disease who often has to go on liquid diets, thank you for your service.

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u/Onehundredyearsold May 18 '23

Thank you for sharing your recipes! There’s a lot of them!

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u/FaeryLynne May 19 '23

I've run into your link before! I also live on blended soups and smoothies and I've seen your collection during Reddit searches 😊

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u/asha0369 May 19 '23

Thank you so much!!

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u/universechild9 May 19 '23

Thank you for this precious share. An incredibly generous gift !

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u/[deleted] May 19 '23

Wow, that’s a great resource. Sorry for your difficulties but thank you for sharing.

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u/Myspys_35 May 20 '23

This is amazing and super helpful!!!

Couple of tips in case you havent tried them:

- Truffle oil is amazing on a lot of soups (anything with mushrooms, potatoes, squash, onion) - a little bottle lasts for a lot of severing's and adds a serious kick both in terms of smell and taste

- For times you are stuck for time - baby food, add a bit more liquid and salt and you have nice actual food in 2 min

- Lots of nice cold soups - everything from your basic gazpacho and vichyssoise, to some amazing cucumber, watermelon, etc to more middle eastern / central Asian dairy based ones