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A simple way to watch your weight and keep healthy is to drink soup. Keep some on hand in the refrigerator to zap in the microwave for quick lunches or snacks!

Three Diet Soups

Lori what an interesting article - I love the variety of your soups. Have you made them all yourself, and if so which one do you prefer?

I notice the cabbage and Japanese soups have sugar substitute , and wonder why they need sugar. I make light vegetable soups using many of the ingredients you mention for the cabbage one (depends what I've got in stock! - just noticed that was a good pun ) but I don't tend to put sugar in them - or, for that matter, Worcershire sauce.

I've never come across konnayaku before, and would be surprised if I can find it round here, but will ask around - it would be an interesting soup to try, very different to the pulse and/or vegetable based soups I normally make.

Good question about the sugar. I should have taken it out but I'm so used to adding a bit of sugar to offset the acidity in tomatoes and cabbage that I forgot these were supposed to be "diet" soups!

Well, just a bit of simple carbs can help with satiety and give a boost of energy, I suppose. When you're on a really lean, low-calorie diet, your body feels a bit of fatigue. At least that's my story and I'm sticking with it. :P

If you could find konnyaku or shirataki noodles, I would. Nearly zero calories, tons of fiber. I love it.

Soup is actually more filling and satisfying than a meal. If you take a meal, add a glass of water to it and liquidise it, it will keep you fuller than if you ate the same meal and drank a glass of water with it.

The liquidised food stays in the stomach longer than if you eat a meal and drink water with it. The water passes through the stomach leaving your stomach empty, were as it takes the soup longer to digest leaving you fuller for longer.

I am going to give these a go Lori.

Peace and hugs.

They tried this experiment on soldiers in the army and all the soldiers who ate the soup said they felt hungry much later than those who ate the meal and drank the water.

Chi intresting comment about the sugar - habits come in so many forms... I have never used sugar to offset tomato acidity, but then I only came to like tomatoes as an adult. One of my favourite salads is ripe tomatoes chopped small with basil (dried) - mix and leave for several hours for the flavours to infuse. I sometimes add spring onion (scallions?).

Thanks also for the info about the noodles. Are they both non-wheat?

Linda I hadn't realised that liquidising food helps you feel fuller. I enjoy soups and eat them constantly, but have not been into liquidising - I find I often lose individual flavours if I do this, and I enjoy chunks of vegetables. Yet thinking about it a lot of diet foods are liquid, eg SlimFast and the meal replacement regime used in Lighter Life.

I like chunky soups and silky soups. Just depends on my mood, I suppose. But to feel as though I'm eating a substantial meal, I do like to chew!

And yes, Asha, both noodles are wheat-free. The konnyaku type noodles or Shirataki noodles are practically zero calories and high in fiber. You can buy them online. Look for konjac products.