Nothing beats a hot steamy bowl of chicken or tomato soup when it’s cold and miserable outside. However preparing soup can be pretty daunting if you don’t know what you’re doing. You need to prepare and chop all the veggies and ingredients, put them in a bowl, keep looking at it to make sure you don’t overcook etc etc. It’s annoying. So why not use technology to your advantage and prepare a bowl of all natural soup  without doing all the hard work?

Meet the mighty Soupmaker Me by Philips. I know it’s easier to just use canned soup but it’s unhealthy, expensive, and it usuallly tastes bad. This gadget will make sure that you don’t have to rely on unnatural soups ever again.

This robust soup maker will chop your veggies and then heat them to make soup just in 20 minutes. It comes with 5 pre-defined interfaces to make it simple. It can be used to make hot soups or cold smoothies, depending upon what you’re a-cravin’. Better yet, it comes with a recipe book which offers more than 30 different tasty recipes you can make using just this product. The Soupmaker Me is available for $155.97 (or £88.32) via Amazon.