Parish 4/Havertown, PA Swap Success!

I got this note from Jane about the Parish 4/Havertown, Pennsylvania Bible Study Soup Swap, over a week ago! She wrote me, "I was afraid I'd have a soup FLOP on my hands for a while (I got a lot of odd looks from folks!), but it was totally worth it. I love looking at the new soups lovingly prepared (or purchased!) by these gals in my freezer, and think the idea is brilliant.!"

Her easy-to-post write up follows,

Ten ladies plus 11 kinds of soup equals great fun!

On Saturday morning, January 26, 10 folks gathered in Havertown, PA, to drink tea and coffee, munch muffins, fellowship, and get down to the business of swapping soups.

Coolers full of delicious soup were first inspected by the TSA (terrier sniffing associate).

Variety was great. Soups included everything from a vegetable beef (the cook was on a first-name basis with the cow!) to a pumpkin bisque, Italian wedding soup, taco soup, split pea with barley, pasta e fagioli, chili with beans, African peanut chicken, bean and ham, lentil-sausage, and beef barley. One soup arrived fresh, not frozen, and immediately graced several dinner and lunch tables later that day.

Prizes were given for first and last soup picked and each person went home with homemade croutons and a suggested list of things to eat with soup. Requests were made to repeat the event next year.

Thanks for the update from Havertown, Jane! We hope you've got a repeat event on your hands, as all your friends are inspired to do another one!

Penciled In in Springfield, Pennsylvania

Karen wrote that at least for the month, she controls the calendar. This seems like a great person to have on your side.

So after the December cookies exchanges, she penciled in National Soup Swap Day on January 23rd as the next swap for the Delaware County, Pennsylvania Creative Babies Playgroup.

The Swap starts late, as the kiddies have likely gone to sleep, so plan accordingly if you're west of Philly, south of King of Prussia, and looking to Swap Soup. Here's a link to get you more information.

Connect in Connecticut?

I got an email from the state's largest paper looking for local Connecticut Soup Swappers. From our site stats we can see lots of traffic from the Nutmeg State, but, as of yet, we're not aware of any Soup Swaps being scheduled there.

If you are in Connecticut and doing a Soup Swap (either with us on January 23rd or on another date more to your liking), drop us a line. We'd love to connect you and your groups to the local press.

I'm terribly behind entering in all the new soup swaps so add us to your RSS feed because in the next week, you'll hear from Texas, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Boston.