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Have you bought the turkey, the ham, and all the trimmings for Easter? After your big Easter feast, you are bound to have some tasty leftovers. That’s why you need SOUPTACULAR!

Order today and your soups will arrive just in time to use up those leftovers.

Here are our MUST-HAVE soups for the holiday:

Basic Instructions (these tips apply to all the soups below):

• Use stock in place of some or all of the water. Leftover meat drippings also add flavour.
• Add veggies: chopped onion, leeks, tomato, peppers, spinach, shredded cabbage, salsa, tomato sauce

1.  Great additions to Autumn Harvest

• finely chopped cabbage rolls
• 1 cup of chunked-up turkey
• 1/2 cup of salsa 1/2 cup of sauerkraut

2.  Great additions to Pasta and Grains

• 1 cup turkey pieces
• 1 carrot
• 1-2 stalks of celery

3.  Green Split Pea Method

• include the ham bone if you have one
• Souptacular’s split pea soup
• 8 cups of water

Cook on high for 6 hours then remove the bone and whisk the soup well so it goes into a smooth texture. Then add:

• 2-3 diced potatoes
• 3 diced carrots
• 1 cup of diced leftover ham

Continue cooking for the remaining 2 hours. Deliciously easy.

It’s always good to think ahead and think … SOUPTACULAR!

Happy Easter to you and yours from Maureen, Al, and Family

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To all Souptacular fans:

Please join us and celebrate the 5th anniversary at the Butterdome Spring Craft Sale at the Butterdome, University of Alberta in Edmonton – May 6th to May 8th .

University of Alberta, Butterdome

• Friday 10 am – 10 pm
• Saturday 10 am – 6pm
• Sunday 10 am – 5 pm

Find the show using Google Maps, and download a map of the area, including transit and parking!

Find more show details here.

Hope to see you there!

Liz, our web person, was struck with tonsillitis this winter, along with the rest of her family.  Here are some thoughts on how Souptacular can come to the rescue when you are under the weather:

When I got sick, I had no energy at all, and since my throat was so painful, I could hardly swallow, and I lost my appetite.  I realized that a big part of getting through this kind of illness is maintaining your food intake – and keeping it as healthy, yet digestible, as possible.  I skipped all the steps, cut open a bag of Souptacular, and started a basic recipe in the crock-pot, adding only a little dab of chicken stock paste and a little extra water.  This took me about two minutes, with no clean-up, so I was able to get a large pot of soup going and then collapse back into bed.

Since I hadn’t been eating for a day or so, when I started sipping the soup, I immediately noticed that my body wanted to eat it:  it went down easily, didn’t hurt my sensitive stomach, and comforted me right away. Most importantly, the soup was easy to sip and swallow, so I didn’t have the nauseous response to pain, and felt encouraged to eat more soup at the next meal time.  In other words, this soup helped me prevent that cycle of pain, hunger and nausea that often makes illness feel much worse than it has to!

When I started to recover more and was able to eat more normal foods, I decided to have a small bowl of rice for lunch.  I had a flash of inspiration that Souptacular soups would be great poured liberally over a bowl of rice – it was the kind of idea that occurs to you as though your body were telling you what it needed most.  I poured a ladle of soup over the rice, made sure it was warm through, and ate it with a fork and some pita bread.  I highly recommend this combination as a simple, filling alternative to a bowl of Souptacular soup, since it tastes great, it will travel well, and it’s easy to digest, especially if you have sensitivity from illness or any other reason.

If I could make any recommendation to someone suffering from a particularly bad cold, strep throat, or tonsillitis, it would be to have some Souptacular in your pantry, or order some for delivery online, and make it using the basic recipe right away.  You’ll have a great nutritional resource – a big pot of comforting and healthy soup – supporting your recovery.

If you would like more ideas to change your daily Souptacular meals, check out Jenni’s 7 Days of Soup.

We thought you’d enjoy this suggestion just in time for Easter!  If you have adult children or other relatives with young families, you can stock their pantries with beautiful soup packets that will help make their lives easier.  Since the packets are so pretty, and somewhat egg-shaped, you could even add some to your Easter Egg Hunt for the grown-ups at your Easter gathering!

We offer some new gift packs that are convenient to order, and a great deal too!

• Try the Soup-er Hero ($162 plus shipping), a collection of 27 soups with an additional Soup-er Tube ($18 value) FREE!
• For a smaller parcel, send the Soup-er Sampler ($54 plus shipping), including 9 different soup flavours with one Soup Seasoning ($6 value) FREE!
• Or, add a beautiful, healthy Soup-er Tube ($18 plus shipping) to everyone’s Easter Basket! It contains 3 popular soups.

One of our customers, Susan Miller, regularly sends Souptacular hampers to her adult children and their families. Here’s what she told us:

Hi Maureen,

My kids get so excited when they get their soup they send me pictures.  We all love it, and they have a busy young family. Thanks for making it easier for us all to have something nutritious to eat that also tastes great!

Sue

Another customer, Jackie Pitman, left this note for us suggesting Souptacular as a great pantry item that makes it easier to create delicious meals on the fly, especially for the busy young family:

Maureen, I love Souptacular – your service is spectacular and so is your soup! I am an English woman who was not brought up on this sort of food. Now, I am a housewife living in rural Saskatchewan and a busy mum to a 16 year old and an 11 month year old.  I don’t have time to measure grains and lentils, or to have large jars in my pantry taking up lots of space. I am so glad I found Souptacular at the Strathcona Market!

If you have a picture of your Souptacular shipment arriving, send it our way! We’d love to hear your story.

Jenni is one of the main staff at Souptacular. You can often see her on Saturdays at the Souptacular stall at the Strathcona Market. She has a great idea for using a whole crock pot of Souptacular soup to serve an individual healthy, convenient, and interesting lunches for a whole week. We think you’ll love her suggestions!

As a person who gets bored easily, I wanted to find a way to eat Souptacular every day for my lunch and to keep it from becoming boring. I started out by making Peas and Barley soup using homemade chicken stock and adding 1 cup each diced carrot, onion and celery root. When it was made I divided the soup into 7 microwave safe containers ready for my busy week. Each day I could pull one out for lunch, and before heating, I could add an extra ingredient which would change it into a new lunch every day.
Here’s how my week went…..

Monday:

• add half a cup of corn (fresh or frozen)

Tuesday:

• add half a cup of diced cooked chicken

Wednesday:

• top with grated cheese (I prefer smoked cheddar or Gouda with cumin but anything goes)

Thursday:

• add half a cup of mushrooms fried in garlic

Friday:

• add caramelized red onions

Saturday:

• add half a cup of diced farmers sausage

Sunday:

• add quarter cup of salsa

This is also a great way of using up leftovers from suppers made during the week. I would love to get some more ideas and am hoping to challenge all my fellow Souptacular fans to come up with new and interesting ways to change up your soups.

Thank you Jenni! This is a great way to keep lunches fresh, especially if you are using a whole pot of Souptacular to serve one or two people through a few days.

Do you have ideas to incorporate Souptacular into your busy, healthy lifestyle? Drop us a line telling us about it!

Cara Guenette is the latest winner of our Souptacular draw! See below for contest details. Here’s what Cara said:

I am absolutely delighted to find out that I am the winner of six Souptacular soups.  I am a busy mom of three children and always have Souptacular soups in my pantry.  It is so great to have a product that is so healthy and easy to prepare. I love how versatile these soups are, they are delicious just as they are or I can be creative and add whatever I want.  I feel really good when I serve this soup to my family because I know how good it is for them. The whole family loves them!
Thank you Souptacular!

Thanks, Cara! We hope you enjoyed your supply of 6 free soups!

If you currently subscribe to this blog by having the most recent entry emailed directly to you, you are already entered to win the next draw. Spread the word! Tell your friends and family!

1. Send them to Souptacular.com.
2. Tell them to subscribe to our Soup-er Email (in the sidebar on the right).
3. Let them know what you think of our subscription service.

If they join, they just might win! And you know that with Souptacular, there’s always plenty to share.

Draws will be announced at Souptacular.com.

Warmest Regards,
Maureen, Al and Family