Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes is making life easier this Super Bowl Sunday with a complete meal deal complete with Deep Kettle Chili, cornbread, Caesar salad and chocolate chip cookies.
This meal will feed about 10-12 people and only costs $39.95.
AND if you need more food, you can get any of our menu items to-go and bring home. Grab some Joan’s Broccoli Madness or how about a veggie tray? We can help you with all your needs. Call your local Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes this week to pre-order (but if you wait too long, all we really need is 24 hours advance notice).
Super Bowl is Sunday, February 5 this year so plan ahead and take away the hassle and let Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes do the cooking for you this year.
Here’s another seasonal favorite from our kitchen to yours. We just revised our Make-It-Fit guides and we now have icons on our guides to show you if an item is vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, low-fat or fat-free. We categorize our Split Pea and Potato Barley soup as Low-Fat (meaning 3 grams of fat or less per serving) and Vegetarian (contains dairy or eggs, but no meat or meat products).
We just served this healthy hearty soup during the first part of January! We know its time for some resolution solutions and Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes cares about what goes into your bodies. Below is a easy recipe that you can make at home and enjoy!
Don’t be daunted by the fact that the recipe makes 20 cups. This soup is even more delicious after a day or two of sitting. I wouldn’t suggest freezing it because of the fresh potatoes, but I found that leftover soup kept fine for a week.
Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes Split Pea and Potato Barley
Hands on: 30 minutes
Total time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Canola oil ¼ cup
Yellow onions (chopped) ¼” 2 ¼ cups
Carrots (chopped) ¼” 2 cups
Celery (chopped) ¼” 1 ½ cups
Minced Garlic 1 tbsp.
Water 12 cups
Dried green split peas 2 ½ cups
Potatoes (diced) 6 ½ cups
Barley ¾ cup
Dried basil ¾ tsp
Dried thyme ½ tsp.
Black pepper ¾ tsp.
Bay leaves 2 leaves
Vegetable base 2 tbsp.
Kosher salt 1 ¼ tsp.
Fresh Parsley (chopped) 3 tbsp.
Preparation:
- Place oil, chopped onions, chopped carrots and chopped celery into pot. Sauté vegetables until soft.
- Add minced garlic to vegetables and stir together to combine. Sauté briefly until garlic is fragrant.
- Add water, dried split pears, diced potatoes, barley, dried basil, thyme, black pepper, bay leaves, vegetable base and salt.
- Bring mixture to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer approximately 1 hour or until split peas and barley are soft and fully cooked.
- Turn off heat. Stir in chopped fresh parsley. Remove bay leaves and serve
- Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Per 1-cup serving: 193 calories (percent of calories from fat, 15), 9 grams protein, 34 grams carbohydrates, 9 grams fiber, 3 grams fat (trace saturated fat), trace cholesterol, 172 milligrams sodium.
SOUPLANTATION EXPRESS CELEBRATES ONE YEAR IN CARLSBAD
(CARLSBAD) January 12, 2012—Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp, known for its 122 Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes fresh, all-you-care-to eat restaurants, will be celebrating the first anniversary of the new quick-serve restaurant in Carlsbad. Souplantation Express, the first restaurant of this new concept located in the Bressi Ranch Village Center at 2681 Gateway Rd. will be celebrating Friday, January 20 through Sunday, January 22 with events, special deals, raffles and a family fun night.
To celebrate the one year anniversary, Souplantation Express will host a family fun night on Friday, January 20. Kids will eat free with a paying adult from 4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. and enjoy a healthy kid’s meal complete with a choice of five salad ingredients plus fruit, mac & cheese, 100% fruit juice box or milk and a chocolate chip cookie. The family fun night will be complete with Sweetie, the Souplantation tomato mascot, a balloon artist, music on the patio, raffles and more.
During the weekend celebration from Friday, January 20 through Sunday, January 22, Souplantation Express will be handing out gift cards to the first 50 paying guests at Souplantation Express. Gift cards will have undisclosed amounts of $1, $3, $5, $10 or $50 to use at Souplantation Express and can be used on the next visit to the restaurant.
Throughout the one-year anniversary weekend, Souplantation will be offering $1 specials all weekend, $1 item options are a small beverage, cookies, bread bowl, small 8 oz. mac & cheese or chicken upgrade to salads. In addition, Souplantation Express will be having a daily raffle to win 10 free meals to Souplantation Express for guests that sign up for the guest loyalty email club, Club Veg Express.
Contrary to the existing buffet style of choosing salads, soups, pastas and baked goods, Souplantation Express customers point to what they would like to customize their salad with while an employee helps to create their salad masterpiece. The menu also features five freshly made soups, mac & cheese, focaccia breads and freshly baked chocolate chip cookies.
“Our first location has been our home for testing things that can work at all Express locations. We have gone through many changes during our first year and are excited to do more with our new concept,” said Garden Fresh Vice President of Business Development Dan Anderson.
Souplantation Express launched a sister unit, known as Sweet Tomatoes Express, in Henderson, NV in August 2011 and will open a third location in Clearwater, FL in April 2012. The quick-serve Express design can accommodate spaces as small as 1,500 square feet—compared to the existing buffet-style Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes model that requires over 7,000 square feet of restaurant space—and is designed for potential entry into food courts, airports and even college campuses.
Souplantation Express in Carlsbad is located in the Bressi Ranch Village Center at 2681 Gateway Rd. and is open from 11:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. daily. For more information please visit http://www.souplantationexpress.com or http://www.facebook.com/souplantationEXP.
SWEET TOMATOES CELEBRATES 15th ANNIVERSARY WITH
CHILDREN’S HOME SOCIETY OF FLORIDA
On Saturday January 14, the Altamonte Springs Sweet Tomatoes located at 474 W. State Rd. 436, will celebrate its 15-year anniversary with a special party complete with an all-day create-your-own caramel apple pound cake for guests. The event will also serve as a fundraiser for Children’s Home Society of Florida, the oldest and largest statewide private not-for-profit provider of services to children and families in Florida.
Anniversary party guests will enjoy a create-your-own caramel apple pound cake at Sweet Tomatoes featuring soft-serve yogurt, warm home-caramel, apple topping, various syrups, sprinkles, granola and peanuts to top creations. Sweet Tomatoes provides a healthy salad bar full of fresh, seasonal vegetables and tossed salads, made-from-scratch soups, hand-crafted muffins, focaccia and breads and tasty desserts.
The Altamonte Springs Sweet Tomatoes restaurant will donate 10 percent of lunch and dinner sales from January 14 to the Children’s Home Society of Florida.
For information about Sweet Tomatoes call (407) 869-5550 or visit www.sweettomatoes.com. For more information on Children’s Home Society of Florida visit www.chsfl.org.
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