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National Soup Swap Day

It's a little known fact that I absolutely love soup. Ask my former college roommates and they will tell you, I could eat soup every single night and never get sick of it - even during the summer. So when I got an email last year telling me to save the date for National Soup Swap Day, you better believe I did!

When it was finally January 2012 and I saw National Soup Swap Day on my calendar, I wanted to try and participate. So I organized a swap with the ladies at work. We did it a little differently than the official guidelines which recommended bringing soups that have already been frozen and then swapping them.

I thought it would be more fun to bring the soups in crock pots so that we could all sample them during lunch. And fun it was. We had nine participants and I am embarrassed proud to say that I sampled all nine soups. Each person also brought their own storage containers and then packaged up whatever soups they wanted to take home with them - or in my case packaged and left at work to eat for the rest of the week. I already told you I could eat soup everyday, now I have proof. I ate soup for lunch and dinner on Monday and then for lunch every day the rest of the week. And no, I did not get sick of it.

Here are the different soups we had at the swap:

My Chicken Tortilla Soup (get recipe here)


Vegetarian Chili
Wonton Soup

Squash Soup

Mushroom Onion Soup
Garlic Chicken and Onion Soup
Pasta Fagioli Soup
Sweet Potatoe Mango Curry Soup
Italian Sausage Soup
 Everyone had a great time participating in the swap and I definitely enjoyed having my lunch already packed for the rest of the week. I encourage you to organize something fun like this at work. I'm already planning a Chili Cook Off at work for February. I will keep you posted!
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Brie Bemis @ Sophistifunk said…
yummmmmy! they all look so delicious!
4/24/2012 6:03 PM
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