Hearty Vegetable Soup/Diet Soup

Have all these holidays done you wrong?


Here's a soup plan to restore your outer beauty.

SERVES 10 -12

Ingredients
• 3 cups crushed plum tomatoes
• 2 1/2 cups pasta sauce
• 1/2 cup tomato paste (1 small can)
• 6 green onions
• 6 cups beef broth
• 1 bunch celery & tops
• 2 cups fresh green beans
• 2 green bell peppers
• 2 lbs carrots (9 to 10 carrots)
• 2 tablespoons chili powder
• 1 tablespoon coarse salt
• 2 tablespoons paprika
• 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 2 tablespoons prepared mustard
• 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
20 to 30 Brussels Sprouts

Directions
1. In a very large stock pot, combine tomatoes, pasta
sauce, tomato paste and beef broth.

2. Over med/high heat, bring mixture to a boil.

3. Reduce heat and simmer covered for 15 minutes.

4. Wash and rough chop carrots, celery (including tops),
and green peppers into 1 inch cubes.

5. Wash, trim and cut green beans into 1 inch lengths.

6. Chop green onion into 1/4 inch lengths.

7. Add all vegetables to simmering pot.

8. Stir to combine.

9. Add chili powder, cayenne, mustard, salt, black pepper
and paprika to soup mixture.

10. Stir and simmer on low for 60 - 90 minutes

Personal note: I had just purchased Brussels Sprouts to make Brussels Sprout Soup then came across this recipe and wanted to try it so I threw in 22 cut in half Brussels Sprouts into this recipe but I forgot the cayenne pepper.

This recipe was supposedly created by a major Toronto Ontario hospital to rapidly and safely reduce a patients weight prior to surgery. I've tried to authenticate this information but have not been able to as yet. I don't think this is true. The recipe is delicious and very healthy.....

the plan below however is suspect.

I've discovered it's the same eating plan that was with the Cabbage Soup Diet in the 80's which was NOT A HEALTHY DIET. I will leave the plan on site - you decide what's best for you. I will comment on each day and just share my experience.

It's a very tasty soup with a bit of a bite. Here's the rest of the plan.

Day #1.
Eat as much of any fruit you want EXCEPT BANANAS.
Eat only soup and fruit today but eat all you want.
Easy day - like the soup -

Day #2.
All Veggies.
Fill up on fresh vegetables (salads etc).
Eat all the soup you want and have a large baked potato with butter at dinner time.
But NO FRUIT TODAY.
Pretty good day - I missed something sweet - poured the soup over the baked potato.

Day #3.
Eat all the soup, fruit and veggies you want,
but NO POTATOES.
If you haven't cheated you will have lost.
5-7 lbs by tomorrow morning.
Still like the soup - good day but towards the end the candy in the house temptation got me - I succumbed. Ugg!

Day #4.
Bananas and skim milk.
Eat at least 3 bananas and all the milk you want today.
Remember, you can have soup anytime you want.
Down 4lbs. Still love the soup, not fond of bananas, don't like milk - made a really frosty smoothie with the two ingredients which was refreshing. BUT my husband was coming home from out of town and I made him a tenderloin, roasted asparagus and purple potatoes dinner and I ate it too. Rats foiled again!

Day #5.
Beef and Tomatoes.
You can have up to 20 ounces of beef and 6 tomatoes in any style you like.
Remember to eat soup too.
This was an easy day for me. I thrive on protein.

Day #6.
Beef and Vegetables.
Eat all the beef and veggies you want today.
You can have 2-3 steaks if you want, with green leafy vegetables.
But NO POTATOES.
Don't forget to have soup.
This also was an easy day for me BUT I went out to lunch with a girlfriend and didn't order beef.
I ordered Vietnamese spring salad with chicken at Pho 88.

Day #7.
Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juice, and veggies today.
Eat all you want whenever you want and have soup as often as you can.
The soup is the key –

Just didn't do the last day - did the first day all over again.
I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the dietary changes each day
but the soup I can handle.

If you haven't cheated, you should have lost 10 - 17 lbs.
That should take care of
Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valintine's Day. :D
Remember;
The more soup you eat,
the more weight you will lose.

I don't know if that's true - I have to take steroids to breathe so I battle edema
amongst other gastly problems like growing fat cells that redistribute in tribes.
I'm down 5 lbs. but it's all water weight so this isn't an eating plan for me but it's
a great soup recipe.