As the cooler weather approaches here in New England, we tend to shift our menus from seasonal summer dishes and lighter fare to soups, rich flavors, and warm homemade baked goods. The change in season also brings a change in schedules, often relying on quick and healthy meals or low and slow dinners. Our Calef’s soups and bread mixes are the perfect meal solution. Both are easy to make, have lots of great flavors and require ingredients that may just be in your fridge already. With lots of delicious soup options and the potential to tweak mixes to fit exactly what you are craving. And best of all, our mixes are made with high quality ingredients, making them a healthy choice compared to other quick meal alternatives.
Simple Soup Mixes
Frontier Soups
The best variety of flavors.
Frontier Soup, Hearty Meals make tasty soups that feel homemade, but in a quick and easy mix. Made with all natural ingredients, you can easily add some fresh additions for truly homemade soups that fit your lifestyle. For creamy soups add a dash of cream. Love Bacon? Sprinkle some atop your soup. Need more vegetable? Shred some brussel sporuts over the creamy Loaded Potato Soup mix. We love adding a protein like diced chicken, shredded turkey or ground beef for a heartier soup. It’s fun to get creative! Each mix can also be prepared vegetarian or vegan. Shop Frontier Soups at the store or online.
Baer’s Best
The best soup mix for hearty heirloom beans.
Baer’s Best Soup mixes are made with Baer’s Best Beans, an assortment of high quality beans from Maine and New York State growers. All beans are harvested at peak maturity for the best quality. The drying process is completed in a barn and cleaned with state-of-the-art equipment. This combination of old and new and careful quality checking, leads to a fresh harvest that cooks beautifully.
Beans have been grown here in the Northeast since Colonial Days and were a New England staple. The Baer’s have been growing beans in South Berwick, ME for over 30 years! With people rediscovering the benefits of beans, companies like Baer are leading the way in sustainable farming, production, and serving! All this hard work culminates in delicious and easy soup mixes for you! Baer’s are a must try bean soup. You can find Baer’s Best Heirloom Bean Soup and Baer’s Best Chili Bean Mix at the store!
Calef’s Original Soup Mixes
The best soup for classic New England Flavors and crowd favorites.
Calef’s Soup Mixes bring together some of New England’s favorite soups in original flavors inspired by our Deli menu, community, and some well known employees! With flavors like Joel’s Corn Chowder, Calef’s Chicken Noodle, The Senator’s Stuffed Pepper, Beauty Hill Tomato Basil, and Barrington Broccoli Cheddar. Our soups are simple to make and taste delicious. These are real crowd pleasers, you can’t go wrong with any of these flavors.
Make a Meal
There is nothing better than soup and a nice bread. Skip the store bought stuff and try your hand at a Calef’s bread mix. Vermont Beer Bread Company is a yummy and simple option. Stop by the store for a mix and a beer (you need at least one for the recipe). At home, just add a bottle of beer and half a stick of butter for a warm, buttery, homemade bread! Use a light beer for a milder flavor or a dark beer for a richer bread. Club soda can be substituted for beer, its just as good!
We also love New England Cupboard Savory Bread Mixes. New England Cupboard is a locally owned company located in Hermon, Maine. They have been making some of our mixes since they opened in 1995. They use all natural ingredients and contain no preservatives. We carry a large variety of their mixes; cookies, scones, muffins, desserts, savory breads and gluten free mixes.
Aside from the taste, we love that these mixes are easy and dependable. Great baked goods, every time. Find some favorite flavors for pairing with soup like Calef’s English Style Beer Bread mix, Bakewell Cream Biscuit Mix, and Bakewell Cream Garlic Biscuit mix online and at the store.
Grab some soups and bread mixes for shelf stable, easy, and nutritious meals you can grab on nights when you just can’t cook another meal or you want to serve up big flavors, fast.
