Homemade Cup-A-Soup – Health Starts in the Kitchen (2024)

Let’s face it, one of the biggest challenges of eating healthy, real foodis replacing those quick, convenience foods of the past. Somany people today relyon instant foods like Ramen Noodles and Cup-A-Soup for lunches and snacks… but when you go gluten-free, paleo, primal, organic, real food, etc those toxic processed foods are the first to be eliminated from your diet. But worry no more, I’ve got the PERFECT solution for you, my Homemade Cup-A-Soup!

Yes! you just read that correctly.

I’ve been making my own Cup-A-Soups for the past few weeks and I’m so excited to share with you how to make them too!

And… here’s the big AND… they are 100% Healthy. No matter who you are and what your healthy eating template is (even vegan & vegetarian!) these will be your new obsession. I promise.

The keyto making your own homemade cup-a-soupis DRIED CAULIFLOWER RICE. The dried cauliflower rice replaces the toxic, pseudo-food noodles with a super healthy vegetable. And we all need to eat more veggies, right??

Making your own dried cauliflower rice is super easy…. just make some (raw) cauliflower rice then spread it onparchmentpaper lined trays of your dehydrator and let it dry!!

You won’t believe how teeny tiny it reduces. I fit 3 large heads of cauliflower into 1 quart jar after it’s dried!

If you don’t have a dehydrator or don’t want to make your own, you can BUY dried cauliflower HERE. If the pieces area little larger than my dried cauliflower rice no worries, it will work perfectly too! You can pulse them in your food processor to chop them up a little or just put them in a plastic bag and crush them up with a mallet or rolling pin.

Now you’ll need some other veggies to add into your homemade cup-a-soup. Although, I do dry lots of our fresh veggies from our garden, I prefer to use a pre-mixed dried vegetable soup blend that I buy HERE. It containscarrots, onions, tomatoes, peas, celery, green bell peppers, green beans and parsley.

To make my cup-a-soup perfect, I also add in some dried spinach and additional dried green peas (these aren’t those dried split peas for soup, they are dehydrated sweet green peas).

For my vegetable soup mixture I purchased and combined these 3 things:48 ounces of dehydrated vegetable soup with 18 ounces of dehydrated green peas and 4ounces dried flaked spinach.

There’s just one last thing you’ll need for your cup-a-soup: BROTH!

I strongly recommend that you use homemade bone broth, (homemade vegetable stock if you’re vegetarian/vegan)or my homemade bone broth bouillon cubes but if you’re just too busy grab some Massel Bouillon cubes.

Yes, of course I love long-slow cooked meals and you all know what a HUGE advocate I am for havinghomemade bone brothas a part of your regular diet for health reasons – but I know so many of you are busy and need healthy meals that everyone will love and come to gather in a snap!

I’ve been a HUGE fan ofMassel’s Bouillonfor quite some time and LOVE the flavors they impart into even the simplest of meals – check out my,Sauteed Mushrooms,Roasted Brussels Sprouts,Zucchini Hamburger, Cream of Broccoli SoupandBloody MaryRecipes on my blog – they all use Massel’s Bouillon as their secret ingredient!

Here’s a list of all the things I LOVE aboutMassel’s Bouillon:

And I Totally LOVE them for my homemade Cup-A-Soup!! I’ve been using the vegetable stock bouillon with a pinch of crushed red pepper.

Now that you have all your Homemade Cup-A-Soupingredients, let’s put it all together!

You can season your homemade cup-a-soup as desired. I like to add a pinch of sea salt and crushed red pepper.If I’m using bouillon instead of homemade bone broth, I’ll also add in some gelatinto make it super healthy.

Make up a bunch of individual servings in separate pint jars or in snack baggies. They are totally shelf stable when made with massel bouillon or if you’ll be adding bone broth later. Keep them in your desk, car, or pantry for quick meals/snacks when you don’t have time (or the desire) to cook. Paired with a can of wild caught sardines, it’s a perfect meal!

When it’s time to eat… all you’ll need is hot water (or broth)

Isn’t that so cool??!??! and they taste awesome!

Oh and I think it looks beautiful as well 🙂 Don’t you??

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