This is often the first type of food you think about when quick microwave cooking is mentioned and there are certainly plenty of options. So don’t confine yourself to just heating up canned soups. You can use fresh ingredients and make some delicious soups quickly and easily. Since there isn’t much space in a mug for the ingredients, it is best to grate vegetables or chop them finely so they cook more quickly and evenly. It is useful to have a hand-held stick blender for some of the soups as it is so easy to simply pop it in the mug and pulse gently until the soup is as smooth as you like. Make sure that you keep the blades of the blender beneath the surface of the liquid so that you don’t spray it round the kitchen.