Diet bad, soup good

Diets are bad, but soup is good! You can use soup to avoid dieting, by filling up on hot tasty broth for just a few calories. You certainly wouldn't want to try to live only on soup broth for every meal, that's not healthy. However, by substituting soup for one high-calorie meal you might have had otherwise, you can quickly and easily cut hundreds of calories from your daily intake. Here, then, is the fast way to do that.

Step One:

Make soup.

Personally, I just open a quick can of something yummy. Choose a broth soup with yummy bits (like the Chicken and Stars shown in the picture), instead of a cream soup (such as tomato, for example).

Step Two:

When serving, pour off the broth into your bowl. The other bits will stay back in the pot. Serve that into the other person's bowl, with perhaps a spoon or two of broth as needed, so it will look like soup for them, too.

Soup Diet

Step Three:

Eat soup and enjoy! You'll still have all the flavor and all the emotional connection and relationship nurturing that comes with joining someone for lunch, but with much fewer calories.

(Don't spoil it by eating a huge pile of bread, though!)

A brief comparison chart, just for fun:

1 can Chicken & Stars Soup
60 calories per serving, 2.5 servings per can.
So, even if you eat the whole can by yourself, that's still only 150 calories.
(but in this example, you only ate one serving, with no stars, so maybe 50 calories or less?)

Or...

Taco Bell Bean Burrito - 198 calories
Taco Bell Fiesta Taco Salad - 463 calories
McDonald's one plain regular hamburger (no fries! no drink!) - 250 calories
Or, the classic McDonald's meal of . . . . .
Quarter pounder with cheese (510) and medium fries (380) and medium Coke (210) = 1100 calories

(yikes!)

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