Soups are a perfect meal for a snack, lunch or dinner and make use of all the vegetables that you may have lying around in the fridge.  To these basic recipes, you can add any of your own cooked proteins or have the soup as a starter then have your protein with a salad. Soups are perfectly accompanied with a small bread roll, pita bread or flour tortilla and can be easily transported in a thermos flask keeping them hot or take them to work in a container to be reheated later.