Getting Ready: Soup Swap 2009

In case you haven't heard, National Soup Swap day is upon us once again!!! Our friend Knox Gardner's been one busy guy not only with his own soup swap in Seattle but with revamping the official Soup Swap site and keeping up with all the national news.

Soup swappers are pretty laid back about things, so if you don't have enough time to get your friends and acquaintances together this weekend, you can always plan one when it's convenient for you. After sitting out last year, our friend Heather kindly nudged us over the holidays to get it together for our second DC swap. We're glad she did and now we're having ours at home this Sunday. I prefer Sunday afternoons/evenings since it gives people the whole weekend to make sure their soup is good, ready and frozen. Then we can all kick off the following work week with a packed freezer!

Speaking of frozen, if you're a first-time soup swapper looking for tips on how to cool, freeze, and store soup, click here.

Now that we only have about 4 days until our swap, we've been picking up a little buzz here and there from our guests. With categories like Most Coveted Soup, Most Unique Soup, Most Creatively Packaged Soup, and Last But Not Least Soup, we can't help but get excited and curious about what concoctions might walk through our door on Sunday.

Like last time, we'll have a full report on who made what next week! So stay tuned! In the meantime, happy soup swapping!