I was looking forward to last night all week. We found out that Dennis’ brother, Dave and his lovely wife, Donna, would be coming to town for a conference for a business they have recently become involved in. Dave and Donna own a franchise in their hometown of Sugar Land, Texas called The Diet Doc. Donna is the face […]
Summer is fast approaching and along with that is societies conception that you need a rocking body to show off. One problem you only have a couple months, finals are fast approaching, and you may have been plagued with past 6 months of unhealthy university eating. Fear not there is a diet – a soup diet – that isn’t hard to follow like other diets and tastes great.
-Although this is hilarious and relatable, it doesn’t have to be true! Soup is the answer to loosing weight and it is delicious.
There has been a recent diet fad – The Cabbage Soup Diet. Dr. Axe Food is Medicine gives great information on what the Cabbage Soup Diet is and whether it is for weight loss or toxin removal.
What Is the Cabbage Soup Diet?
The low-fat, high-fiber diet consists of a fat-free cabbage soup that is eaten one to three times a day. On each day, there are other assigned foods that are allowed.
Day 1:
Eat only cabbage soup and fruit all day, except bananas, which are put on the chopping block on this diet.
Day 2:
Eat only the soup and vegetables all day, especially root vegetables. Avoid corn, beans and fruit. As an indulgence, you can end the day with a baked potato and butter.
Day 3:
Eat cabbage soup, fruits and green vegetables all day. Do not eat any starchy veggies, like potatoes.
Day 4:
Eat cabbage soup, bananas and skim milk. This day is supposed to decrease the desire for sweets.
Day 5:
Eat cabbage soup (at least twice) with grass-fed beef (or baked chicken without the skin) and nutritious tomatoes. Drink six to eight glasses of water.
Day 6:
Eat cabbage soup (at least once) with beef and vegetables.
Day 7:
Eat cabbage soup (at least once) with brown rice — not white rice — unsweetened fruit juices and vegetables.
How does the Cabbage Soup Diet Work?
On the cabbage soup diet, you likely eat 1,000 calories a day. This is half of the recommend 2,000 calories a day, so you are going to lose weight. Because the diet consists of low-fat and high-fiber foods, you are going to lose plenty of water weight.
This diet also works as a liver cleanse because it rids the body of toxins that are built-up in the liver.
Find out more via The Cabbage Soup Diet
Monique from Divas Can Cook provides this lovely video on how to make the cabbage soup. You can even check out her 7-day journey via her blog post.
Here are some personal accounts of the effects of the diet.
Cabbage is the secret to this wonderful soup! Look at this infographic explaining the benefits of the soup.
Soup is a great way to eat healthy, lose or maintain weight, and not to mention it is easy to make. You will be prepared for this summer especially if you follow this cabbage soup diet.
My mom used to make chicken soup in two cases: when she would get a nice ‘village’ chicken or when someone in the family was sick. As I got a bit ‘fooled’ from the early spring days, here I am, going down with the flu and making some chicken ‘to get stronger’ as my mom […]
So, dinner the other night was at 9:30 pm. Yes, really. The picture above isn’t pretty but this was my bowl of soup at 9:30 pm! My son had play rehearsal until 5:30 pm and needed to be at the high school for his orchestra concert at 6:00 pm. He ate a snack while I […]
Often individual’s lives are extremely stressful and one becomes overwhelmed with the stress of work, friends, and just life in general. Sometimes these individuals turn to food to destress. One problem, what is the greatest de-stressing food – why soup of course, creamy, comforting chowder.
Comfort Food: “Comfort food is food that provides a nostalgic or sentimental value to someone,[1] and may be characterised by its high caloric nature, high carbohydrate level, or simple preparation.[2] The nostalgia may be specific to an individual, or it may apply to a specific culture.[3]” As defined on Wikipedia.
@marlboros knows that stress these days is too real.
This speaks to anyone that has every experinced stress in the slightest way @wtfivxn
Arguable comfort food is not the healthiest thing for individuals, but when you are stressed out it is a free pass. So throw away that diet (for a meal) when you become stressed and grab a piping hot bowl of creamy chowder. You will feel better, trust me.
Here are some twitter accounts doing comfort soup the right way:
Find some fantastic comfort soups here:
My ultimate creamy chowder is Clam Chowder, especially when it served in a bread bowl. Something about the soup just melts my stress away. Just a pinch recipes has great Clam Chowder recipe by Betty Graves that will be sure to relieve your stress.
Ingridents:
Instructions:
Creamy Soup has got to be the #1 repelant of stress.
Slurp the stress away with a creamy chowder and refocus your energy to accomplish your goals. So the real question is what is your ultimate comfort soup?
-This is the true meaning of university, at least we have soup to fill our sorrows.
– The accuracy of this image is painful, especially weight gain and lack of money.
Fear not there is a solution! A Souplution. It is yummy, healthy, and won’t put a huge dent in the wallet of a Uni student.
If students are sick of canned soup, there are fantastic, cheap recipes he or she can create for CHEAP! All You has 5 Cheap and Easy Soup Recipes Under $1.
I repeat for under $1 one can fill their stomach! You have to check these soups out here: 5 Savoury Soup Recipes.
Soup is cheap I mean look at these prices at Walmart. Ranging from $1.68 up to $2 can, or if one buys in bulk 82 cents a can! Now that is a bargain, not to mention tons of choices. 
The image below may not be a perfect picture of health but when soup is done right it can be extremely healthy! The article below explains why soup is healthy when prepared properly.
Soup is really healthy, just what students want! According to Livestrong “Soup is a quick, hot meal that offers plenty of health benefits. You can throw a variety of ingredients into a slow cooker in the morning before you leave for work or school and return home to a delicious meal in the evening. The healthiest soups include fresh, low-fat ingredients and a minimum of salt and extra fat. You can use up leftovers in a soup pot and create new variations of favorite recipes since soup lends itself to experimentation.”
Cynthia also mentions that soup gives an individual their daily serving of vegetables, nutrients, soup is also low in fat and keeps one full. Check out a more detailed version of the article here: Livestrong.
Student Recipes provides great soups for students! Students can get their inner chef on and impress their parents when they tell them, “I am having Chilli Carrot and Lentil Soup.”
Chilli Carrot and Lentil Soup via Quick and Easy Soup Recipes for Students!
Ingredients:
Instructions:
Be sure to check out more of their sweet and easy soup recipes at Student’s Recipes.
Here is a list of many blogs/websites that provide cheap and easy soup recipes that won’t harm a university student’s already low budget:
Now that students can concur the ever stressful task that is fueling their bodies while trying to maintain and acceptable GPA. 
Smart students know that this graph is true because soup is cheap and filling.
Now Soup may actually help a student budget their money better, as soup is cheap to buy canned and fairly inexpensive to make from scratch, but sorry to say it can’t pay off your student loans. Students will still be broke but at least he or she will be full.
One of the easiest & tastiest way to eat pumpkin (other than just having it roasted on its own or boiled) is to make it into pumpkin soup. Since my previous blog post is on chicken stock, I thought I should add a post to share what I use my stock for! For a twist of the usual pumpkin soup – I’m gonna MISO it.
INGREDIENTS 1 tbsp. olive oil 1 medium onion, diced 2 garlic cloves, minced 2 large celery stocks, diced 3 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and diced ½ tsp. dried thyme leaves 4 cups chicken broth 1 cup coconut milk 1 tsp. salt 1/8 tsp. ground black pepper, or to taste 2 tbsp. parsley to garnish, […]
Spain is notoriously known for siestas and fiestas, all in which contribute to the perceived happy culture of the Spanish people. But there is a less known secret about Spaniards happiness – Gazpacho. A cold and refreshing soup that Spaniards sip on to escape the hot rays of sun; this is the key to happiness – a cold bowl of Gazpacho on a hot day.
@Food&Tapas really nailed that meaning of Gazpacho in this tweet.
-So true, because there is a difference between cold soup and gazpacho you know! Via quick meme. To get a little more insight on the history of gazpacho! Because soup is more than just a scrumptious liquid, it has a complete history. Courtesy of Amanda M. Darling via her youtube Culinary History with Caroline
Here is the breakdown of Gazpacho:
How does one make Gazpacho though? Dana Wilde via OC Mom Blog elegantly explains the liquid happiness as follows:
A Taste of Spain… Andalusian Gazpacho
How could you not love a tomato-based soup with chunky pieces of cucumber and pepper? It was so refreshing and cool and at the height of summer helped conquer the heat of the city. It wasn’t until I visited Spain with my friend and roommate Katie that I first tried Andalusian Gazpacho. It was a completely different Gazpacho than what I had ever had before and I fell in love with it.
What was different? It was the slightly grainy, yet creamy texture, the tang of sherry vinegar and the not strong but still present garlic. It was zesty and refreshing and addicting and so much better than what I was used to.
After doing a little research, what I came to discover was the texture I loved so much in the Andalusian Gazpacho I had in Spain came from olive oil and… bread!
It’s not a quick and easy recipe. Not that it’s complicated really. It just takes some chopping, some blending, and some straining. It’s well worth it though.
Makes approximately 8 cups
Ingredients:
4 slices of Italian country loaf (best if a day or two old, so it’s dried out a bit)
3 pounds of ripe tomatoes (roma or vine ripened)
2 cucumbers
1 red pepper
1 green pepper
1/4 medium red onion
3 cloves of garlic
¼ tsp of cumin seeds
sea salt or kosher salt
½ cup of Spanish extra virgin olive oil
3 Tbsp of aged sherry vinegar
Chives for garnish
Instrucdtions:
- Remove crust from the slices of bread. Crumble the bread into a bowl. Slice tomatoes in half or quarter and collect seeds with juice in the bowl with the bread. Add a tablespoon of sherry vinegar. Mulch it all together with your hands and let rest while you dice your vegetables, starting with the tomatoes.
- Peel and dice cucumbers, leaving seeds in.
- Remove core and seeds of both red and green pepper and dice.
- Peel the red onion and dice ¼ of it saving remaining for another use.
- Place all vegetables into a large bowl and toss together with about 3/4 teaspoon of salt and let rest while juices form about 15 minutes.
- Toast cumin seeds on medium low heat until fragrant
- Peel garlic and smash removing the bitter green center.
- Place garlic, toasted cumin seeds, and ½ teaspoon of salt in mortar and pestle and smash into a paste.
- Place the tomato and vinegar soaked bread into a food processor and add the garlic paste. Pureé until smooth.
- Add one third of the vegetables and 1/3 of the extra virgin olive oil into the food processor with the bread garlic mixture still in the bowl and purée until smooth.
- Place a strainer over an eight cup measuring cup and strain the mixture using the back of a wooden spoon to press the mixture through the strainer. Discard solids. Process the remaining vegetables and extra virgin olive oil in two batches and strain.
- Once all three batches are processed and strained, pass through a fine sieve the second time, using the back of a wooden spoon to press through and once again discard the solids. While you can use a fine sieve the first time and strain only once, I think it’s easier to use a regular strainer first to get the larger chunks and then remove what’s left with the finer sieve.
- Stir in the remaining 2 tablespoons of aged sherry vinegar and chill for at least 3 hours before serving. Garnish with a drizzle of the Spanish extra virgin olive oil and chopped chives.
For more details about Dana’s recipe go check out her post on OC Mom Blog.
Also, how can one not be happy when they are eating something that looks this beautiful, pretty hard for someone not to feel joy! Look at these pretty gazpacho’s – works of art I say.
Soup for days This past weekend I went to the country for a little weekend retreat of my own creation. Spring renewal vibes brought me out there, but winter decided to have its last hurrah and I wound up snowed in on Friday, and it was actually perfect (fortunately I had checked the weather forecast and […]
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