Think outside of the tin can with this recipe for homemade minestrone soup by Mixed Greens. Soup is the essential Thermos filler, and this recipe looks like it will keep the family fueled for hours.
Sharlyn Petit is a Northwest-obsessed, annoying iPhone food-documenting, day-tripping fool. By day, she's an HR communications specialist, but she spends every other waking minute as a freelance writer and editor for food, travel and lifestyle content. Born in Hawaii and raised in Alaska, she left the coconuts and survival camps behind long ago for a quiet life in the Emerald City with her French husband.