From Better Homes and Gardens

This make-ahead pasta soup can be served immediately, but chilling the soup overnight allows the flavors to blend.

Quick Minestrone

From Diabetic Living

Make this quick soup as a side dish for lunch or dinner or serve it as an appetizer.

Vegetable Pasta Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

For fewer than 300 calories, this soup is a complete meal of chicken, vegetables, and pasta.

Chicken Tortellini Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

The lentils and barley give this pleasing poultry soup an earthy, down-home flavor.

Chicken, Lentil and Barley Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

Loaded with carrots, ham, and split peas, this healthy soup is a meal in itself, and it freezes well.

Split Pea Soup

From Parents

Make this meatless meal ahead by putting the ingredients in the slow cooker. Let it cook all day and dinner will be ready when you get home from work.

Easy Indian Stew

From Better Homes and Gardens

Poblano peppers are long, deep-green peppers with a mild to medium-hot flavor. The jalapeno, on the other hand, is a smaller pepper that adds plenty of heat to this slow cooker stew.

Spicy Pork and Potato Stew

From Diabetic Living

Kick the flavor of the Mexican-style soup up a notch with a sprinkling of cilantro and a squirt of lime juice.

Southwestern Pinto Bean Soup

From Heart-Healthy Living

Garbanzo beans and potatoes make this vegetarian soup filling substantial enough to serve as a main dish.

Garbanzo Bean Stew

From Diabetic Living

According to legend, this seafood soup originated in San Francisco, the creation of Italian-immigrant fisherman who were as skilled with a soup kettle as they were with a net.

Seafood Cioppino

From Heart-Healthy Living

Most purchased soups are loaded with sodium, so make your own with this low-sodium chicken soup recipe. It's great for lunch or dinner with a sandwich.

Chicken Noodle Soup

From Diabetic Living

This chicken soup recipe is made with healthy whole grain barley instead of white noodles or rice.

Barley-Vegetable Chicken Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

Manhattan-style chowder is tomato-based and contains other vegetables in place of the potatoes found in milk-based New England-style chowders.

Manhattan Fish Chowder

From Better Homes and Gardens

Serve this low-cal fish and tomato soup with hearty whole grain bread, flat bread, or Scandinavian potato bread.

North Sea Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

This hearty soup full of beans, mushrooms, orzo, and tomatoes can be on the table in just 30 minutes.

Minestrone with Mushrooms and Feta

From Better Homes and Gardens

Each bowl of this brothy soup holds a healthful portion of greens. Enjoy coming home to this hearty soup recipe.

Italian Spinach Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

Fresh ginger and Chinese cabbage lend Asian flavors to this hearty soup.

Gingered Pork and Cabbage Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

Anaheims and poblanos add a lively beat to shredded chicken and fresh corn in an aromatic broth.

Tortilla Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

For an even faster meal, cut up the beef and vegetables for this soup the evening before cooking the soup.

Teriyaki Beef Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

Fennel imparts a licoricelike taste to this Italian vegetable soup.

Minestrone with Fennel and Ham

From Diabetic Living

This first-course soup recipe concentrates most of the flavor by reducing the stock. Fat-free half-and-half substitutes for the traditional cream.

Creamy Seafood Soup with Basil

From Better Homes and Gardens

Bok choy and soy sauce lend the Asian touches to this low-fat soup.

Oriental Ham Soup

From Diabetic Living

This crabmeat soup is made with fat-free half-and-half, which makes it rich and creamy, but keeps it low in fat and calories.

She-Crab Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

While the potatoes for this 30-minute soup simmer, make the rye croutons. To thicken the soup, mash the potatoes to the desired consistency. For potato chunks, mash only part of the potatoes.

Fennel Chicken-Potato Soup

From Better Homes and Gardens

Use tiny cutters and thin slices of carrot to make the carrot garnish to accent this smooth spinach soup.

Creamy Spinach Soup