hearty red lentil soup recipe

10-Day Soup Challenge

Nothing says comfort like a warm bowl of soup—especially when you’re ready to explore plant-based eating. The 10-Day Soup Challenge makes it simple with nourishing, veggie-packed recipes, done-for-you grocery lists, and sanity-saving kitchen hacks.

Soup ingredients in fridge after grocery shopping for challenge

grocery list

No more guessing or counting—enjoy a simple list to shop and be set for the week.

Soup challenge recipes in pottery bowl with toppings.

Tasty Recipes

Plant-based soups that are cozy, flavorful, and packed with vegetables that nourish.

Digital soup challenge guide on ipad

Reusable Guide

A printable 15-page guide with recipes + a handy grocery list you can use again and again.

I love having this soup challenge to keep me eating healthy during the colder months—because let’s be real, it’s way too easy to end up snacking on cookies or loading up on baked potatoes when the weather turns chilly.

— Jen Hansard

Cozy + Nourishing Soup Recipes (Without the Stress)

These recipes aren’t just about eating better—they’re about making dinner simpler. With step-by-step instructions, you’ll feel confident in the kitchen while whipping up hearty soups that reheat like a dream for lunches or busy nights.

How the Soup Challenge Works

For less than the cost of a drive-thru meal, you’ll have nourishing dinners your whole family will actually eat, a fridge stocked with real food, and the motivation to keep yourself fueled during those cookie-and-casserole months.

Menu with soup recipes for the week.

📅 Weekly Soup Menu

5 simple soup recipes each week (enough for family dinners, leftovers, or freezer meals).

Grocery shopping for the soup challenge ingredients

🛒 Weekly Grocery List

Know exactly what to buy to make 4 servings of each soup. Share with family, freeze for later, or pack in a thermos for work and school.

Bowl of celery soup on table for the challenge.

⭐ Top-Rated Recipes

Reader favorite soups with flavors you’ll crave—no bland “diet food” here along with step by step instructions to make each soup recipe using a variety of techniques so you can finally feel confident in the kitchen.

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Leave with confidence in the kitchen

  • Done-for-you Soup Menu
  • 10 Nutritious Soup Recipes
  • Soup Prep Guide w/ Tools
  • Full-Color Interactive PDF
  • Motivating Emails

All of it for just $7. Seriously.

( Less than a latte ) 

More flavors, recipes, and confidence every time you get in the kitchen.

Collage of two different bowls of soups.
Collage of two different bowls of soups.

Soup Challenge Reviews

Participants say they’re more excited to cook, discovered new family favorites, and even batch-cooked to freeze meals for months. With simple prep and flexible recipes, you’ll see that healthy eating doesn’t have to be complicated.

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The vegan potato soup was very tasty. I was worried because my family usually prefers a very hearty meal and they all enjoyed this very much.

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Delicia Ostrowski
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So very good!

My favorite soup is the vegan tomato soup. A favorite with the entire family. Had it with a grilled cheese sandwich. Perfect!

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Vanessa de Souza
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Hopelessly devoted to Soups!

I had a lot of fun creating these recipes. I loved that a lot of them are versions of soups I already make at home and there’s no better way to start soup season than with a challenge. Cooking is sometimes a hassle for me because I have to do a million other things but having these recipes makes my food prep/cook time a whole lot smoother.

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Elizabeth Sorto
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For the love of food

Recipes were tasty and nutritious! Having the shopping list prepared for me made it super easy. The soup recipes were also easy (although, would prefer to have measurements instead of number on some of the ingredients listed). Will definitely be making some of the soups again! Sending the daily emails for feedback kept me engaged with the group. Would love to see and participate in future challenges! Thanks!!

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Diane S.
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Fun! Easy! Nutritious Food!

I enjoyed trying all of the different recipes. I don’t normally cook with a lot of fresh ingredients, so this really helped with that. It also ensured that I got my vegetables in everyday. I had never used leeks before, so I was able to experience them. Everything was so refreshing. Great way to consume veggies.

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Lacresha Dillon
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Soup Galore

My wife is the first to admit she’s not a good cook. In fact we’re currently reviewing this together because of how much we enjoyed the 10 day challenge. Working on this together helped her learn some basic cooking skills that she can carry into different meals and we both enjoyed all of the different soups. Several of these recipes will be added into our family’s future meal planning and now we can confidently work on this together. Thanks for starting the challenge! It was fun and informative to follow along!

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Aaron
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How to Teach Your Wife to Cook in 10 Days

Thank you for hosting the challenge! Loved the recipes and plan on getting through all of them this winter. Thanks

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Kristi
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Fun soup challenge

This was a hard challenge as fare is having all the ingredients but it was fun and enjoyable to know I was making a dinner that was healthy and nutritious. I always cook healthy meal but not all the time vegetarian. I was a change and a good one. I like being challenged and I thank you for inviting me to be part of all the fun.

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LauraJankowski
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Diligent Challenge of Enjoyment

I love all the challenges, but this one has been my favorite. As a vegetarian, it can be hard to find soup recipes you want to make and have to modify them to fit your diet, but this has given me 10 great and delicious recipes that I can make all soup season!!!

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Chiara Z
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Soup season!

Loved the soup challenge. It was my third SGS Challenge and it might be my favorite (with the salads a close second). I loved 90% of the soups and will for sure be making 5-6 of them again. I love this challenges because I get to use my appliances to their full potential! Great challenge keep up the good work!

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Robin M
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Soup so good!

The Vitamix 10 Day Challenge was interesting and rather tasty. While I didn’t care for each of the daily selections I really liked several of them. Fun & interesting way to enjoy different tastes over the past 10 days…

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Kerry Coyle
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Soupy Days

This challenge answered the question, “What’s for Dinner?” for 10 days! With the shopping list and the instructions printed out it was remarkably easy and quite delicious! I am so happy I participated!!

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Amanda W.
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Fun and tasty challenge!

I loved this challenge because fall doesn’t feel like fall without a warming cup of soup. Or ten of them, haha! Incidentally, our wellness challenge at work this month was to make at least one soup, stew, chili, or chowder and I’ve now been inspired to keep going and make a soup just about every day this month because one can be so creative with them. My favorites for this challenge were the Thai Cocont Soup and Vegetarian Tortilla Soup. 🙂

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Maggie C
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SOUPtoberfest is in Full Swing!

I really enjoyed getting to test out new recipes and better learn how to use my Vitamix! My favorite recipe was the leek and sweet potato soup. It was a family crowd pleaser and I will definitely make it again! Thanks for the motivation and support to try new, healthy recipes!

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Laura T.
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Fun Healthy Foods Challenge!

This was a fun challenge. Now I have soup in single and double serving containers in my freezer to last til almost New Year’s. Finished my final soup after the 8 o’clock deadline, but I did this for the personal challenge.

My kitchen is under renovation, so everything is very inconvenient (no running water in kitchen.) The challenge gave me focus; otherwise I would’ve just been snacking and getting takeout for the last 10 days.

Thank you for the recipes and fun.

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Wllen
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Soup-er Marathon

Well, my family and I decided to tackle this challenge together. We got the groceries, prepped the veggies, and followed the recipe each day. The vegetables were familiar with a few new introductions like bok choy. However, the flavors were ever changing each day. I was worried the soups would be bland and the 10 day challenge would be a struggle. Yet, after a few days of great soups, we were looking forward to trying each recipe, expecting it to be just as good as the last. We were not disappointed… today’s soup, the split pea was smoky and flavorful without any meat! We also noticed we felt more energetic and more alert. This has been a great experience, and it has motivated us to include more plant powered meals in our weekly menu. We introduced some new smoothies to our breakfast routine. We will be keeping our favorites from the challenge to go into the rotation.

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Alanda H.
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Living plant powered!

Breath taking. Every soup was delicious. I was invited to Thanksgiving dinner and took my minestrone soup for my dinner as I decided to have the soup for lunch and dinner. I am sure I will be making those soups during the winter months. Thank you for your inspiration.

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Veronica Grant
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Sumptuous

I’ve really enjoyed participating in these challenges! It inspires me to work on my diet – I do much better when I’ve got a plan and an “event” to participate in. I did wind up with so much soup that I fell behind in my days – still have a few to go. I also wound up traveling when I had a couple soup ingredients prepped – I went ahead and brought them along and we made a vegan red curry with my (beautifully 😉 ) cut up veggies. So far, my favorite was the lentil – a hearty soup, didn’t miss meat in it.

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Nancy M
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Inspires me

Loved making all these soups! Definitely going to keep them on rotation as the days get colder here! My 5 yr old has already asked for the lentil soup again 🙂

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Kailey
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Yummy!

Honestly, I didn’t make every soup yet – but the recipes and ideas they inspired were wonderful.

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Jodi Higgins
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I love soups and these were great!

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