We had a smaller nutribullet for the longest time which enabled us to make single smoothies and small bowl of soup, but we are so happy we got this full size Nutribullet Blender because it is a power house and allows us to make much larger serving sizes. We just expanded our family and now that we are preparing food for 4 it is very handy to have the ability to make a large batch of soup, baby food we can store for a week and of course smoothies in the morning for the whole family. My husband makes a delicious zuccini soup with only 3 ingredients (garlic, water and butter) that my kids gobble up and now we can have left overs thanks to this large capacity blender. I highly recommend it. The blade is extremely sharp and cuts through ice, nuts, etc with ease and takes virtually no time to blend anything. Also, it is SO EASY TO CLEAN.