If you're not a fan of raw celery, neither am I but this soup is delicious! Celery tastes so much better cooked in my opinion. This is a thin but creamy, low calorie soup, great for lunch along with a sandwich. For more creaminess without the coconut cream, just add an extra potato

The supermarkets here always have the 5 main pre-packed vegetables going very cheap the week everyone is buying their Christmas dinner accompaniments. I got sprouts, parsnips, carrots, potatoes and onions for 15p a bag at Tesco, apparently Asdas were even cheaper! A lot of people dislike sprouts but we eat them all year round. Some people like to pair them with bacon or chestnuts at Christmas and you could certainly use ham stock if you like in this if you want to tone the sprout flavour down. I opt for half and half chicken / vegetable stock and you can add extra water depending on how thick you prefer your soup. Some cheese straws or crusty bread completes the meal

Colcannon is such a famous Irish dish I thought, why not change it up and turn it into a delicious soup instead of serving it as I normally would

A delicious, vegetable packed chunky soup, great served with bread and safe 'butter'!

A great frugal recipe to use up all the stringy bits you would possibly throw away after carving your Halloween pumpkin. Where do you think pumpkin puree comes from? It's not normally from the flesh and so these parts are perfect for soup! Served with roasted pumpkin seeds in place of croutons you're using everything you would be discarding from a carved pumpkin

This soup works well with an apple instead of a pear too

A simple soup but full of flavour. Just a variation of my previously posted lighter onion soup

This soup uses smoked paprika, cumin and garlic to give some warmth and depth of flavour to earthy lentils, perfect for the wintery showers we keep having!

I got some lovely yellow tomatoes at the local Farmers Market which are perfect for bringing colour to your homemade salsa and for making a beautiful yellow tomato soup

This is litrally a 10 minute soup if you buy pre-boiled beets! Red Thai curry paste is great in this recipe as it contains garlic, lemongrass, lime leaf and coriander, very citrussy ingredients which work well with beetroot.

A miserable day in the North East of Scotland calls for soup! Be aware that lentils belong to the same food group as soya beans and if you have a soy allergy as opposed to an intolerance, you may not fare well with lentils and have the same reaction

Looks like the heatwave is over and we're back to our normal Scottish weather! Jack announced it must be a soup day so why not a traditional tattie soup? Add in whatever else you would like, this is the basic, bare bones version. Best with homemade stock - chicken, vegetable or ham - but old-fashioned tattie soup would have been made with beef or mutton bones. My grannie would boil up a ham hough for hers but for the sake of ease and what we enjoy the most, I use an equal mixture of chicken and vegetble stock cubes