The easiest way to get your five-a-day?These delicious soups and stews deliver them in one bowl

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Beautiful soup,” sang the Mock Turtle, “so rich, so green, waiting in a hot tureen.” Soup is simple, cheap and nourishing, of course, but it’s more than that. There is something about eating from a spoon that is infinitely pampering, mothering and soothing, and who couldn’t do with a bit more of that? Plus, if you make it right, soup is a great vehicle for packing in your five-a-day vegetable quotient.

I know, we’re all fed up with being nagged to eat more veg. Adults should be beyond this sort of ­bullying, surely – who could forget the late George H W Bush declaring, “I’m president of the United States, and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli.’’