Home-canned soup is a must-have in my pantry for busy evenings and sick days!
If you’re anything like me, you probably got started canning extra vegetables from the garden. It’s a great way to preserve your extra produce for winter without relying on a freezer to keep it cold. However, these vegetables still need a bit more effort to make a meal. That’s why I also like to include some soup in my pantry.
Home-canned soup takes little effort to open, heat, and enjoy. They may not help me make big fancy meals, but they fill everyone with nourishing, tasty food when the family is stretched thin or under the weather.
I highly prefer these home-canned soups to store-bought canned soup. Store-bought soup is rarely very filling and contains high levels of sodium. The cans they come in are typically lined with plastic, and about 10% of them still contain BPA.
When canning soup at home, you can ensure that the soup is made with high-quality ingredients, such as vegetables from your garden or farmer’s market, meat from your homestead or hunt, and fresh spices and herbs.
Read More: 100+ Soup Canning Recipes
The link above takes you to the full list, but here are some of my favorites:
What are your favorites? For canning or otherwise. Leave me a note in the comments so I can try it out!
Canning Recipe Ideas
Looking for more ideas?
If there’s a canning or preserving recipe that you’d like to find, please do let me know in the comments, and I’ll see what I can do to track it down for you.
Happy Canning!
-Ashley at Creative Canning
(Ps. I also run the blog Practical Self Reliance, which has information on all manner of food preservation techniques (cheesemaking, salt curing, fermenting) as well as just about everything else you’d need to learn to be self-reliant in this modern world. It has its own substack as well, and you can subscribe to practical self-reliance separately as well. That newsletter comes out weekly and covers canning, as well as everything else.)