Soooooper soooooooup

Well I do make soup every week but from the vegetables in the fridge that are past their perky best. I have never tried it with already cooked vegetables. I don't call it anything and it differs from week to week depending on what's available (going off) and whether I put pasta or pulses in- great for the diet though

When we had a houseful of hungry teenagers I often made soup from the (scrubbed) veggie peelings and offcuts. Not any manky bits, natch. I never called it anything - just put the plateful down in front of them.

Broccoli stalks would never get as far as soup with me - I love them so much I will peel them and eat them raw! Much better than the rest of the broccoli. I have to admit, the only time I have used discarded bits of veg in the way you describe is to make a veg stock, which was strained, not blitzed. Never thought of soup - might give it a go.

Instead of compost soup you could call it compo soup, compo being slang for British Army field rations. DH was find of coining a phrase from Forest Gump "life is like Army compo; you never know what you're going to get"! Some of it was barely edible - I'm sure yours is much better!

"FOND"!!

Well I might have to give that a try.....

I call it "use it up" soup. Like you I'm not fond of throwing anything away if I can use it. I made a brothy type thing with ham stock from boiling a joint of gammon. I put in leftover vegetables from the lunch, and some that were languishing in the bottom of the fridge. It was delicious. I ate the last of it for supper last night.

My family have always made what we call Boxing Day soup. All the leftovers from Christmas dinner, including the stuffing, pigs in blankets, veg, meat, even cheese sauce. Makes a delicious starter for Boxing Day but does give you dreadful wind!!!

I just hadn't made it with the preparation scraps before. Well, it's full of fibre so must be good for us.

I do it with past their best on a sunday

Dollop Soup in this house, as in a dollop of this and a dollop of that! So far, we've survived!

We refer to to it as "Random Vegetable Soup" Problem is, if you get a particularly good batch, it is practically impossible to replicate!

Here it's 'don't ask' soup - could be because it's so good replication is requested, more likely that I dont dare tell them what's in it. We feed it to guests. .

If I know I have not got time to cook with some tired veg I just stick them in the freezer and use them later in soup.