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healthy soups??
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hiya as i had a post a few weeks ago that i am dieting and dont seem to be loosing weight, i am considering going on sort of a liquid diet which means for my dinner and luch i will be just eating soup,, dos any one know a good halthy soup u can buy in the tin as i cannont make soup,
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go for broths and vegetable ones
hope this helps
I don't know about you, but if I went on a diet like this my stomach would riot. I tried to live on noodles last year and two days in I felt sick.
You should try to learn to make some easy soups and add something solid in it. It doesn't have to be a lot but just something with substance so you're not just intaking a bit of flavor and lots of water. When I have instant cup soups I'm usually hungry again within the hour.
Also, fruit and veg is your friend. If you go for this, eat that as well. And exercise.
Or even easier use canned pulses, cook an onion in a saucepan, add tablespoon of sundried tomato paste, teaspoon of pesto and a can of butter beans. Heat up and then whizz in the blender. Less than 5 mins
I really recommend baxters chicken broth and scotch broth
Campbell's Chunky too
And since today I made a 'booster' for the first time for lunch since I moved to uni, I recommend that if you want something different. I'm not sure if you have curd over there, but it's a dairy product with high protein levels. It's a bit similar to yoghurt. I put a bit of that in a mixer, then throw whatever fruit I like as well, and some juice (some people use milk). You mix it all together and with the curd it's just like a milkshake, only MUCH healthier.
It takes 3 minutes to prepare! I had rasperries (frozen), a banana and a mixed fruit juice in mine as well as the vanilla flavored curd. Two hours later I'm still full up!
just fill a pan with water, add cut up parsnip, carrot, onion and turnip (could also add lentils if wanted) then add a couple of stock cubes of your choice (i use chicken!!)
then boil until the veggies are soft and then add liberal amounts of salt and pepper (however much you want!) DONE!
it is seriously veery yummy!!!
plus, if you wanted to add some protein to it then you can easily just add some chicken breast to it/ beef or whatever meat you fancy
when i cant be bothered making my own soup however, i usually have weightwatchers cans of mushroom/tomato ones. yummy
and today for lunch i had some red dragon 'chicken and sweetcorn soup' which was also very nice. only 160 cals per tin i think
but as everyone else has said its better if you make your own.
that sounds LUSH!!
Try
www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes
or
www.deliaonline.com
Type 'soup' in the search engines and you'll have a good variety to choose from.
Weight watchers no point soup...
You will need:
1. Place all the ingredients in a saucepan.
2. Cover and cook until the vegetables are soft (about 20 mins).
For a smooth soup, puree all the ingredients in a blender.
For a chunky soup, just puree half the mixture.
3. Return to the saucepan and heat through.
Personally i just use a potato masher for mine.
Tastes yummy.
My advice for the blender- don't buy one of those machines if it's just for making soup coz they're a pain to wash. Just get a handheld whizzer from tesco for a fiver.
Most canned soups are very low in caloroes anywhy - like less then 200 calories which is less then a lot of chocolate bars
so eat whatever flavours take your fancy.. but the recent ASDA low salt range is tastless.
To have a whole tin of soup is quite filling as well so it is a good diet food.