How soup can help you lose weight

BBC News (U.K.) ^ | May 26, 2009 | Jack Challoner

[Slings and Arrows]

Mmmm, soup.

[GOP Poet]

Works for me. I’ve been a lunchtime soup gal for years. That is of course when I am not scarfing down toasted plain bagel veg-outs. :-). The pickle is good too. ;-). Almonds are a good tide over later.

[rlmorel]

Let me be the first today...

NO SOUP FOR YOU!

[plsjr]

Two birds with one stone - lose weight and low cost. My office mates have started calling me ‘soup man’.

[Misterioso]

That’s not Soupy Sales. I’m guessing from Seinfeld?

[silverleaf]

Soup Nazi!

[Slings and Arrows]

I actually do love soup. This could be useful.

[cavador]

I once tried making home cooked vegetable soup.... that is until I nearly took off two fingers in the vegetable slicer -man, their was soooo much blood it put me off food for at least eight hours.
Hey they're right - I did lose some weight in those eight hours.(LOL)

[gattaca]

This is very interesting. I’m looking up soup recipes now.

[CapnJack]

The problem with soup is that it is VERY HIGH in sodium.

Eating a lot of soup is a quick ride to high blood pressure.

Unfortunately finding low or no-sodium soup is almost impossible, and when you do, it tastes like junk.

[mylife]

Only if you put salt in it.

You can get the same “brightness” by adding fresh lime juice to a fresh serving of soup.

Did I mention fresh herbs and chilis?

[mylife]

[giotto]

Why pay $3-4 per can for salty soup that tastes like garbage? I have discovered a quick way to make great soup out of leftovers from dinner, or frozen veggies if you don't have any leftovers. For example, take the leftover Harvest Mix (broccoli, mushrooms, baby corn, etc), add water and bring to boil in microwave. Add vegetable or chicken buillion, some dried chopped onions, a half cube of frozen minced garlic, some basil or other herbs if you like. Cover and bring to boil again, then cook at lower power for 5-10 minutes. Add some tomato sauce, or not. The point is you can make any darned soup you want fast and cheap. Experiment. Find recipes on recipe.com or a million other websites. I found a delicious recipe for cream of asparagus soup and used up the expensive leftover asparagus from dinner. It took about 10 minutes and was better than any gourmet canned soup.

Best of all, you don't get a ton of sodium, sugar, MSG, melamine, and God knows what else, in your soup.

[Clara Lou]

I made oxtail soup with vegetables and barley all last winter. Delish. There’s nothing like the flavor of oxtails. I wondered how it could be so filling. This article clears that up.

[cornelis]

Your mom never made homemade soup?

[RU88]

Is this some kind of cryptic preparation for soup lines?

[Rebelbase]

Pho Bo?

[Pharmboy]

...just watch the salt. Better to make the soup at home.

[fnord]

Unemployment may be around 20 percent in 2012, with huge soup lines in every urban area, but the MSM will praise Obama for courageously tackling our most urgent crisis, obesity.