Soup from chocolate

How do you get soup from chocolate?  It all started with Charlie in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.   Chocolate and candy oozes from almost every page in the book.  But soup?  In the story, Charlie Bucket does not have very much food, and he mostly ate cabbage soup.  Yuck!   The girls thought they could make better tasting soup than cabbage soup.  So they chopped, cooked and worked all morning to make vegetable alphabet noodle soup to give to St. Vincent's Food Cupboard.  They were immensely proud of themselves by the end of the day.  "Our soup is deliciously yummy."  They wrote a letter to St. Vincent's and said they hoped the people who needed food liked their soup because they loved it.  One of the girls said, "We made it for people like Charlie. We care about them, and we don't even know them!"

A great big thanks to the chefs' assistant, Anne Sudduth.  We couldn't have done it without her!

How 11 girls made soup

Chop the celery smaller and smaller

Slice the onions and don't cry

Learn how to peel a parsnip

Chop peppers while your mom helps out

Decorate the tops of the soup containers

When you need a break from soup making, go hibernate in the burrow

Find the letters in the alphabet noodles

Cook up the celery 

Give it a sniff test

Stir the peppers and carrots

Did Sophie add too much parsley?

Taste the soup for lunch

Ignore your own lunch to eat what you made yourself!

Yum

All ready to go

Pack up the soup

30 containers of soup for the food cupboard