Easy Slow Cooker Soups For Fall
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A good, hearty way to feed a family in the fall is with delicious slow-cooker soup. I like to make soup and offer some of it to one of my daughters so they can have a quick savory meal after work.
A little homemade soup, a cozy kitchen, and a chilly autumn afternoon make a lovely combination.
With a slow cooker and a handful of everyday ingredients, you can enjoy delicious homemade soups in the fall season.
Slow cooker soups are also great for smaller households because you can refrigerate or freeze leftovers for another easy meal. You can prepare a large batch and enjoy the convenience of having homemade soup ready when you don’t feel like cooking.
I enjoy making easy soups for fall and winter as the weather cools. A one-bowl meal is easier to prepare, and soup is warm and filling.
I’ve found ten slow-cooker soup recipes for both meat-eaters and vegetarians. These days, I’ve gone more toward a vegetarian diet.
Potato Soup:
Probably my very favorite soup, year-round, is potato soup.
Years ago, I would often start cooking potato soup in the slow cooker once my girls were off to school. I liked potatoes with the skins left on, and then I would add carrots and onions.
When the girls got home from school, the scent of potato soup filled our little house, and they were hungry and ready for a hot meal.
I usually made chicken salad sandwiches to go with the potato soup. This meal became something we often ate. The slow cooker soup was cheap to make and a perfect fall meal.
We always had leftovers, and we’d eat potato soup for the next few days. I’ve somehow lost that old handwritten recipe card for this particular potato soup. So I’ve had to find other potato soup recipes online with the same ingredients.
Creamy Roasted Mushroom Soup:
Some people don’t like mushrooms, but I love them. With just a few ingredients and about 30 minutes of work, you’ll have Creamy Roasted Mushroom Soup from your crock pot.
This is a delightful soup to make in your slow cooker for the fall season.
Crock Pot Chicken & Dumplings:
I remember this meal from childhood. A stomach full of chicken and dumplings was close to perfection on cold days.
Chicken and dumplings are an old-fashioned favorite soup for many in the fall and winter.
Slow Cooker Vegetable Soup:
If you want to get all your veggies in one sitting, nothing beats old-fashioned vegetable soup.
It’s cheaper because it doesn’t call for meat. This easy, slow-cooker soup is budget-friendly for fall.
Olive Garden Chicken Gnocchi Soup:
This is a copycat version of Olive Garden’s Chicken Gnocchi Soup. Tender potato dumplings with veggies and chopped chicken are delicious with bread, biscuits, or crackers.
This slow cooker soup is easy and perfect for fall evenings.
French Onion Soup:
When the days are cold and blustery, French Onion Soup served along with crusty French bread just hits the spot.
Slow Cooker Lasagna Soup:
Chicken & Corn Chowder:
Crockpot Pumpkin Soup:
Slow Cooker Beef Barley Soup:
These easy slow-cooker soups start in your crockpot and simmer all day. Herbs release their fragrance, potatoes soften, and the whole room fills with a scent that feels like a blanket for the soul.
Fall Slow Cooker Soups:
A taste test with a wooden spoon tells you when it’s nearly ready. Bowls are warmed, bread is sliced, and when you finally sit down, each spoonful feels nourishing and a little bit nostalgic.
And there’s always my old standby, taco soup. You can make it on the stove or in a slow cooker. It will feed a family, or if you live alone like me, you can freeze it. Let it cool down first, though.
Taco soup is a great make-ahead option, though you should leave out toppings like cheese, sour cream, and tortilla chips until serving time
To me, fall means falling leaves, children heading back to school, and decorating for the season. And as the days get shorter and it gets dark earlier, meals centered on slow-cooker soup seem perfect.
There is something comforting about coming home to a warm bowl of homemade soup on a cool fall day. As temperatures begin to cool, slow cooker soups become an easy, delicious way to bring warmth and coziness into the kitchen.
One of the best things about making soup in a slow cooker is how little effort is required.
With just a few simple ingredients, some broth, vegetables, herbs, and your favorite seasonings, you can create a hearty homemade meal without spending hours standing over the stove.
Simply add your ingredients to the slow cooker in the morning, set the temperature, and let everything simmer all day. As the flavors blend together, your kitchen fills with the wonderful aromas of a home-cooked meal.
My favorite meal is soup. I do find it so satisfying. I’m going to pin some of these, because I love the idea of making them in a slow cooker, being the lzazy cook I am!
I love soups…I make what I call a “Lazy” Potato Soup
Peel & cut up a few potatoes, put in medium size pot, cover them with either vegetable or chicken broth, add chopped onions, Pat of butter, bring to boil, turn down to simmer, then put in a can of cream of chicken soup & simmer till potatoes are done…
Sometimes I add celery and/or carrots, depending on what I have on hand…
Not a crock pot recipe, but quick, easy and really tasty. Make Pioneer Country Cream Gravy mix (I suppose any other brand would also work) according to package directions, I usually use sodium free chicken broth instead of water. Then stir in a can of drained Sweet Corn and a can of Creamed Corn and you’re set to go. Enjoy as is or add your favorite toppings, crumbled bacon, chopped ham, shredded cheese, croutons or oyster crackers.
Brenda you wouldn’t have to stand too long to make this.
I am reading this and so hungry for soup! I used to make chicken and dumplings and potato soup all the time for my granddaughter and her college friends! I think I am going to make soup for one of the meals this week!
Both soups sound so good to me right now!
Soup has always been one of my favorite meals. These photos look so buttery and nourishing. I live in San Diego, but these recipes make me wish for blustery winds and snow drifts.
I’d love to live near the ocean. But then again, I like the seasons.
Brenda-Thx so much for sharing these soup recipes. I have a new crock pot to try out! Have you eaten Indian Naan bread? It’s sold in all stores, sometimes in deli dept. It’s similar to pita. We love it toasted with a touch of butter. It would be delicious with soup! My mom makes a wonderful chicken matzo ball soup. But when I’m ill, I prefer take-out Chinese wonton soup (no shrimp).
No, I don’t think I’ve ever had Naan bread. Sounds good though!
That’s what I was going to suggest yesterday for u to find some yummy recipes and food bloggers to see different food blogs. U read my mind! Lol
My Mom always made homemade chicken soup with orzo. Then my Dad took over making it when he retired. Lol
I love soups and stews esp in the fall and winter! Yum!
What your mom made sounds delicious!
The mushroom soup looked delicious so I clicked through to it even though I don’t have a slow cooker and was pleased to see you don’t need one for this recipe. I’m definitely going to try it soon!
I think I will try to make this once I can stand long enough.
When the weather turns cold my daughter wants potato soup or if she’s not feeling good she requests it. I love chicken and dumplings, oh my so yummy. I haven’t made French Onion soup in years. Will have to try that again. I remember having it served with the bread in the bowl and the cheese melted on top. I make a posole soup with left over roasted chicken. It has hominy in it which I love.
I haven’t had hominy in ages! We had it when I was a kid I recall.
Yum! I love soup all year and these all look really good. As I write I have a chicken barley soup in my little crockpot.
Thinking of you and Ivy and sending all good thoughts. It’s been quite a summer for you and I admire how well you have adjusted – I know things will be better for you as time passes.
Chicken barley soup sounds good!
Thank you so much for sharing your soup ideas! I enjoy a large bowl of soup year-round. One of my favs is beef barley vegetable soup. Yum!
I love it all year round too.
Everyone of these soups looks delicious! Thank you for all the yummy ideas!
There are a lot of soup recipes to choose from. These six sounded best to me.
Your soups sound delicious 😋 Brenda!!
We (all of our families!) were raised on so many different soups!!! 🍲
I just love ❤️ potato, cream of mushroom, & “Everything” vegetable soup.
Perfect with saltines, 1/2 sandwich, & a few cookies for dessert!!
My sister & I have been making soup (in our crockpot) all this summer ,,,,, good & satisfying!!! 😊
Soup & a sandwich=Good eating!
Oh, good grief, I am now so hungry and starving, for soup, I gotta go see what I have in the fridge available. Love, love potato soup and also chicken soup with home made dumplings. It’s raining here right now, and pretty chilly out there too, so a great day for soup.
Have a good weekend, Brenda, thanks for soup ideas today. Hugs!!!
I wish I could stand in the kitchen and cook something. I’m getting tired of what I’ve been eating.
Thank you! I love making soup and plan to add all of these to my collection. You found some great recipes. Potato soup was my fav as a child, too.
I can’t recall what soup I liked as a child. But potato soup is certainly my adult favorite.
Oh my…lovely ideas, Brenda!! THANKS!!
You’re quite welcome!
Thanks for sharing Brenda,
As a little girl growing up , I remember my Moy mother making Chicken and dumplings Soup. I loved it,and still does today.