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{Note from Jessica: Today’s post is shared by my sweet friend Renee, author of Raising Generation Nourished. We became friends several years ago and I am continually impressed with her desire to help change the world, starting with our newest generation. Real food has to be the core of our health and should start in the womb. Considering this is the first time in history that our children are expected to die before us, something HAS to change. I’m honored to call her a friend. I hope you’ll stop by her site, Raising Generation Nourished, and say hello!}
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One of the very first things I learned how to make on my journey to eating more real food was how to make bone broth.
I had read “Broth is Beautiful”, got my slow cooker out to make my first whole slow cooker chicken, threw the bones back in the slow cooker, made my first batch of broth…and completely fell in love.
Fell in love? That’s a bit of a stretch to say, no?!
Not in the least for me! The simple task of teaching myself soup making has not only given me a way to learn how to cook (YES – I had zero cooking skills!), but it also played a huge role in the healing of my gut.
If you are looking at trying to feel better, function at optimal performance, and keep from getting sick all fall and winter, the first and most important step would be to take your gut health seriously. Your immune system takes up most of its residence in the gut, so if your gut is off, your whole body follows.
Making bone broth the right way draws out gut-healing gelatin and vital minerals our bodies need to operate. Most of us are just plain mineral depleted. We are either not eating the right kind of food, or our bodies are not absorbing minerals well – in many cases both are true.
The minerals in bone broth are much easier for the body to absorb, and the gelatin will help heal your gut lining.
And if the healing nourishment of bone broth hasn’t convinced you, maybe the frugal monster will get you?! The gelatin in bone broth does heal the gut lining, but it is also a great protein source. We do have soup most days of the week all year long because of the nourishing benefits, but also because it helps me stretch my meat budget.
SO HERE’S MY CHALLENGE!!!
Bone broth. DAILY.
Yes, you can do it! It is so worth it! It is so worth filling you and your family with an immune boost. It is so worth not getting sick *every* single month during the fall and winter. Your kids are worth it. YOU are worth it.
And don’t forget the kiddos! Bone broth makes a fantastic baby’s first food (read some tips on how to start bone broth with baby HERE), and when you start them young, they will drink mug after mug for you as they get older! Soups are super kid-friendly, and even the pickiest of toddlers will love soup purees when you make them the right way!
So head out to your local farmer, farmer’s market, or ask around – find some pastured chickens and/or grass-fed cows and let’s make some broth! Ask me some questions – I would love to help you figure out a source!
You can certainly drink delicious sea salted bone broth straight from the mug – in fact please do so! But there are over 50 different soup recipes to fill up your menu plan with a new soup to use your bone broth every day!
START WITH MAKING YOUR BROTH!
Here is how to make CHICKEN BONE BROTH and BEEF BONE BROTH.
You can also use an Instant Pot, which is Jessica’s favorite way to make bone broth. You can learn more about the Instant Pot in her thorough review here or find them on Amazon if you are interested in snagging one (sometimes they have some amazing deals!). Learn more about making bone broth in an Instant Pot or pressure cooker here.
My friend Craig has an amazing online course called Bone Broth 101 that I highly recommend. Learn more about it here.
CREAMY VEGGIE SOUP PUREES:
- Cream of Garlic Soup from Paleo Gone Sassy
- Carrot & Parsnip Soup with Parsnip Chips from Recipes To Nourish
- Butternut Squash Soup from Natural Fertility & Wellness
- Kid Friendly Creamy Vegetable Soup from Raising Generation Nourished
- Cauliflower Chowder from Raising Generation Nourished
- Nourishing Broccoli Soup from Raising Generation Nourished
- Roasted Garlic Soup from Raising Generation Nourished
- Fresh Tomato Soup from Raising Generation Nourished
- Leek & Radish Soup from Raising Generation Nourished
- Spiced Apple Butternut Squash Soup from Gutsy By Nature
- Cauliflower, Broccoli & Cheddar Cheese Soup by Recipes To Nourish
- Cream of Sweet Potato Soup from Paleo Gone Sassy
- Creamy Butternut Squash Soup from The Organic Kitchen
- Easy Creamy Leek Soup from The Real Food Guide
LIGHT LUNCH SOUPS:
- Radish Soup from Simply Healthy Home
- Nourishing Chicken Soup from Simply Health Home
- Thai Turkey Cold Busting Hot & Sour Soup from Farm Fresh Feasts
- Gluten Free Chicken Noodle Soup from Raising Generation Nourished
- Egg Drop Soup from The Organic Kitchen
- Thai Inspired Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup from Farm Fresh Feasts
- Crockpot French Onion Soup from Paleo Gone Sassy
- Paleo Chicken Jalapeno Soup from Paleo Gone Sassy
- Slow Cooker Thai Coconut Soup from Happy Mothering
- Chunky Chicken Vegetable Soup from The Organic Kitchen
- Thai Coconut Soup AKA Non-Traditional Tom Kha Gai from This Is So Good
- Thai Turkey Soup from A Happy Healthnut
- Nourishing Thai Noodle Soup from Nourishing Simplicity
- 3 Cozy Soups from Eat. Play. Love. More
- French Green Lentil Soup from Farm Fresh Feasts
- Summer Veggie Soup from Raising Generation Nourished
- Poor Man’s Chicken Noodle Soup from Live Simply
HEARTY DINNER SOUPS:
- Hearty Lentil Soup from The Organic Kitchen
- Spinach Lasagna Soup from Raising Generation Nourished
- Slow Cooker Fiesta Soup from Raising Generation Nourished
- Cabbage & Meatball Soup from Natural Fertility & Wellness
- Mexican Chicken Lime Soup from Natural Fertility & Wellness
- Gluten Free Minestrone Soup with Quinoa Pasta and Pancetta from The Organic Kitchen
- Italian Chicken Meatball Soup from Raising Generation Nourished
- Vegetable Beef Soup from Raising Generation Nourished
- Venison Cabbage Soup from Simply Health Home
- Paleo Leek Soup with Crab from Paleo Gone Sassy
- Sage & Sausage Cauliflower Soup from Raia’s Recipes
- Beef & Cabbage Soup from Raia’s Recipes
- Easy Moroccan Beef Stew with Lemons & Butternut Squash from And Here We Are
- Enchilada Soup from The Provision Room
- Simple Asian Beef Soup from Urban Ecolife
- Portuguese Style Sausage & Potato Soup from This Is So Good
- Sausage, Meatball, and Escarole Soup from This Is So Good
- Chicken Enchilada Soup from All Things Health
- Hearty Beef Stew from All Things Health
- Beef Barley Soup from Live Simply
For even more delicious soup and stew recipes, check out Delicious Obsessions’ recipe library here.
Want MORE Bone Broth Goodness?
My friend Craig has an amazing online course called Bone Broth 101 that I highly recommend. Learn more about it here.
He is also the author of an AMAZING new book called Fearless Broths and Soups. You can find it on Amazon here. Check out one of the recipes from his book here.
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I can’t wait to try some of these recipes!! They sound delicious!
Hope you enjoy Mindy! 🙂
Did you can these soups? I am looking for a way to preserve meals without using my freezer (which will be otherwise occupied when I get our local meat in a few weeks.) Do you have instructions for that? Thanks! These soups look delicious!
Hi Stephani – I’m sure you could can them, but I honestly don’t know how. I don’t do any canning, so I’m not well-versed in how to preserve things like this in that fashion. I’d do some Google searches. There has to be info on that somewhere! Cheers! 🙂
My biggest problem is finding good meat and bones. There is an Earth Fare close enough to visit once a month, but to be honest I end up spending my budget on other things and stay away from the meat counter. I live in rural NC. I see cows grazing everywhere!
Great post btw, I do need to put more focus on this 🙂
Hi Cindy – I would call around to ranches in your area and find out if you can buy bones directly from them. Sometimes you can and they are pretty inexpensive. If nothing else, just save the bones from any chickens or turkeys you make and use those for stock! Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
I can’t wait to start with some bone broth.
Good afternoon. I have read that you can also add gelatin to the broth if you like for more nutrients. Is this so and if yes, how much do you add? I found some high quality agar agar as well ad vegan gelatin powder.
Thank you in advance.
Hi Jason – You sure could! I do that when I use store-bought broth (not often, but sometimes I do in a pinch), just to give it a boost of nutrition. It depends regarding how much I add. If it’s a big pot of soup, I may add a few tablespoons. If it’s just a small serving of something, I may add a teaspoon or so. Hope that helps! 🙂
I’m new. Can’t wait to get started.
Hope you enjoy Kenny! 🙂
As a farmer raising pigs, goats, turkeys and meat chickens as well as laying hens we make a lot of bone broth and love it! Pork bones are excellent and make a very flavorful broth. We cook ours on the wood stove during winter for over 24 hrs and let it reduce down to a thick broth, strain it and put it into 16 oz containers then freeze them. Great for quick meals, not just soup or stew… pull out the wok, add a bunch of veggies, toss in some thick bone broth and noodles, season to taste, you don’t need much, salt, pepper and a bit of garlic and onion… oh my god, you’ll be hooked once you start!
Thanks for stopping by and sharing Ken! You’re lucky to have access to all that fresh meat and bones! That is the way to go! 🙂
Thank you Jessica for all these wonderful recipes!!!
I’m done with my first bone broth (I used a whole chicken), it didn’t turn out very gelatinous. Is it still nutritious? Also, should I remove the fat that rises to the top after the broth is refrigerated? Can it be used for general cooking?
HI Margaret – Yes, it will still be nutritious! Welcome to the world of bone broth. Some batches are going to gel more than others. It will vary some from batch to batch. Many people choose to skim off the fat from the top. I personally don’t (because I’m always in a hurry), but you could and yes, you can use it for general cooking. 🙂
I make bone broth but once or twice a week. I would like to make it daily but am uncertain if that is good. I mean how much meat stuff do I need? Isn’t daily too much? I can’t tell why I feel daily is too much, I am not sure myself.
Hi Jasbir – Broth is a very nourishing food that is some cultures is consumed daily. I say go by what your body tells you it wants. If you don’t want to consume it daily, then that is fine. Consume it when your body wants it. I personally consume bone broth daily because I eat some sort of soup for lunch every day. 🙂
I am praising the Lord for this blog right now. I have been on a long journey of healing my son’s gut and have just added my other two kids this past year. I’m finally at the place of using green shakes and soups to see how this change might positively effect their health. I was looking for legal soups I could make using bone broth and viola! Thank you so much for sharing these recipes! This is, without a doubt in my mind, God’s answer to my prayer. God bless you!
Wow, Danielle! Thank you for the kind words! I am so happy that the info has been helpful! This is a great post with so many good ideas. You made my whole day! Best of luck as you guys continue to heal! 🙂
I love these recipes as I suffer several chronic illnesses including Addisons, Gastroparesis & I’m currently doing chemotherapy. How do I find local farms to get bones from? I’m really struggling & any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Hi Michele! Thanks for stopping by! I am sorry to hear about your health. 🙁 Sending healing vibes your way! As far as bones go, I would check this site first: http://www.eatwild.com. This will show you what ranches/farms are in your area. Also, you could try asking at the meat department of Whole Foods or your local health food store if they can special order you some bones. Quite often, they are happy to do so!
This is great news! I have been making bone broth but didn’t know it was good for acid reflux too. I have one question though, wouldn’t drinking it daily be a little too much? It is still derived from animals and too much of anything is usually not too great in the long run. I do try to get antibiotics and hormone free chicken but still, I don’t trust it 100%. Do share your houghts
Hi Jasbir – It totally depends on your body. If you are focusing on healing your gut then daily is very important. Listen to what your body wants and go from there! 🙂
I am looking for gluten free & meat free soups
Hi Lee-Anne – All of my soup recipes are going to be gluten-free and many of them can be made meat free by omitting the meat and replacing the bone broth with vegetable broth. You can find all of those here: https://www.deliciousobsessions.com/recipes/#soups. Hope that helps!
Im very new to cooking of pretty much any kind, so im wondering if beef bone broth can be used in place of chicken bone broth for some of these recipes without changing the flavor too much?
Hi Amber! I use beef and chicken broth interchangeably and personally do not notice that big of a difference in taste. That said, some people do, so I’d recommend trying one small batch and see how you like it first. 🙂
I am vegetarian and do not want to change that. Can you suggest anything for me.
Thank you for all your sharing and keep up the good work.
Hi Marjorie! Thanks for stopping by! So glad the info has been helpful. You can always make broth out of different veggies, though it won’t contain the same nutrients (minerals and collagen) and broth made from bones. Google “vegetarian broth” and I bet you’ll find a ton of tutorials. I should get one written up and posted on this site. I had not even thought to include one. 🙂
Thank you for sharing these! I’ve been drinking Au Bon Broth like a tea in the morning and was planning on using it in making dishes. Will be trying some of your recipes using it.
Yay! Hope you enjoy Cameron! Thanks for stopping by! 🙂