Soup . . . It's Whats For Lunch

If you asked any of my friends to describe me, picky eater would be on the list of adjectives chosen. It’s not that I make others accommodate me, but often I choose not to eat certain things. With the food world somewhat limited for me, I tend to eat the same things over and over again. Things like soup.

I’ve always loved soup, who knows why, but I eat it a lot. It is a very convenient lunch to bring to school and to work. I only eat half a can a day (one full serving), and I get two days worth of lunches out of one can of soup. Since I am also cheap, I am saving a ton of money on eating a can of soup rather than eating out every day! Like I said, I love soup.

Historically, I ate three types of soup: chicken noodle, minestrone, and split green pea. However I recently ran into a small problem. See, my work recently moved to a different part of town and lets just say the lunch options reflect the surrounding neighborhood. The word to describe the neighborhood and lunch options can be summed up with dismal. Since the move, I have been much better about not going out to lunch with the boys all the time like I did in the previous neighborhood, but that means I have to bring a lunch most days. Which of course leads me back to soup.

When you have next to no options for outside lunches and its winter, soup is a common lunch theme. The problem is that after 5 years of eating the same soups, I am starting to get sick of them. So I decided it was time to branch out of my picky eater mentality and actually try some new soups.

On a recent trip to the grocery store, I spent some time examining the soups in the soup aisle. Who knew there were so many flavors?! Seriously, there was half an aisle of just soup! I grabbed probably six different kinds of soup. Now for most people this wouldn’t be a big deal, but when you’re me, six new flavors is huge.

Today I had the Mexican chicken tortilla. It was delicious! Look at me all growing up, trying new flavors of food. And while the boys still make fun of me for eating half a can of soup for lunch, at least they can stop hassling me for only eating chicken noodle. So many flavors of soup . . . who knew?