Dieting With Soup
There are a variety of different soup diets and even more variation of each of these diets. The cabbage soup diet is quite popular, but for the purposes of this article, we will begin with and focus on the chicken soup diet and then discuss the cabbage soup diet briefly as it relates to the chicken soup diet.
The principles of this diet are fairly basic. First, you eat a breakfast, which is NOT chicken soup. Then, you eat only chicken soup for the rest of the day, but as much chicken soup as you want. Only one breakfast is allowed per day and after breakfast soup is the only food to be eaten. It should also be noted that there are also restrictions on the breakfast too, but that you should not eat soup for breakfast. It is also important to know that only certain ingredients should be used in the soup and that some ingredients are not allowed.
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The Chicken Soup Diet Recipe
The chicken soup diet recipe is actually pretty simple and basic. Other than chicken, vegetables - broccoli, celery, and carrots - are one of the main ingredient. For added taste and flavor, the soup also includes a variety of seasonings.
For breakfast, juice - orange, apple, cranberry, or grape - is an acceptable and popular drink. The food choice can be yogurt fruit and wheat germ, or cereal. Participants can choose from among several breakfast choices and if they want they can change it up on a daily basis.
Ingredients:
- 0.25 cup chopped fresh dill or 1 tablespoon dried dill.
- 0.25 cup lemon juice
- 0.5 tablespoon cayenne pepper
- 1 Tbs. chopped garlic
- 1 bag (16 oz.) frozen carrots
- 1 box (10 oz.) frozen broccoli florets
- 1 box (10 oz.) frozen chopped collard greens
- 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
- 1 turnip cut into 0.5 inch pieces (0.75 of a pound)
- 1.5 cups frozen chopped onions
- 2 tablespoons of oil, ideally olive oil
- 2 tablespoons of salt
- 4 parsnips cut into 0.5 inch pieces, about 1 pound of parsnips total.
- 4 ribs, sliced like celery.
- 7, 5-ounce cans of chicken OR 5 cups of cooked chicken, totaling 1.5 pounds.
- 16 cups of reduced fat, low-sodium, chicken broth
Cabbage Soup Diet
The cabbage soup diet is essentially identical to the chicken soup diet. The main and obvious difference is that instead of chicken soup, dieters eat as much cabbage soup as they want. For both diets, participants eat a sensible breakfast other than soup. Cabbage can be spiced up so that it is not so bland too, but most people seem to prefer chicken. Yummy.