Budget food/living

My parents do loads of soups. I miss soups - our kids don't like them- like it's not a proper dinner.
You make a pot and you can live off it for few days.

I have soup everyday.
Every 2, 3 days I cook a new pot.
Soup, bread, milk, tea and coffee.. pretty much resume my whole year.
Then, there's all those flashy photos of what i also cook, but those are the exceptions.