To make your own soup, quickly and easily, you need to keep a number of base items in your house such as cut and frozen meats such as beef or chicken, frozen or canned vegetables, an assortment of pastas, and broth containers or bullion cubes. Add or omit contents to reflect tastes preferences.

Thirteen simple soup recipes are at the Fitness Magazine website with ranges of 107 to 390 calories and use just 3-4 simple steps. The recipes cover a variety of soups including Tofu Noodle, Spinach and Pesto Meatball, Mushroom, Shrimp Egg Drop, among others.

Making mushroom soup takes a pound of sliced mushrooms, a red onion cut in thin pieces, and a couple of tablespoons of butter. You add 3.5 cups of beef broth and a couple of onion-mushroom soup mixes. When it boils turn it down; allow 5 minutes for simmering. Put 2 tablespoons of dry sherry in and stir.

Tofu noodle soup requires a tablespoon of toasted sesame oil and soy sauce and a pound of cut extra firm tofu. Mix 3.5 cups of vegetable broth with 10.5 ounce vegetarian veggie soup, cut broccoli and 2 ounces of dried undon noodles. Boil and cover when simmering. In five minutes, toss in tofu mixture and heat.

Several soups you can prepare ahead of time and freeze are pasta and potato soups. Busy Cook's website soup recipes are prepared in 30 minutes. They contain more ingredients and are hearty. There are cheese, chowders, fish soups and more. Add bread sticks to make the soup your lunch.

At the Easy Better Recipes site, there are 443 easy soup recipes from which to choose. Their textures are somewhat hearty, light, or creamy to suit your many tastes. Making any of these soup recipes requires a half dozen or more ingredients.