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Soup Diet

There’s a lot of chatter online about the soup diet because it does work!  The liquid and vegetables create stomach-filling volume and the can is automatic portion control – but only if you realize that most cans are 2 servings.  Two of the online favorites are Progresso’s Light Zesty Santa Fe Style Chicken (80 cals/12 carb/2 fiber/460 sodium) and High Fiber Chicken Tuscany (130/20/7/690) and – let’s be honest – most of us eat the whole can, maybe pouring off some broth to cut down on salt.  I also liked Progresso’s Chunky Tomato Reduced Sodium (100/17/3/480), though I did kinda miss that grilled cheese sandwich my mom used to give me with tomato soup.  My favorite soup was Annie Chun’s Udon Soup Bowl (110/22/1/460) in it’s own bowl made of cornstarch, with other flavors available like Kimchi, Thai Tom, Miso, and Hot Sour.  I added more nutrition with spinach leaves and beans. Amy’s Organic, Dr. McDougal, Healthy Choice Low Salt and others are good but kind of blah choices, but BEWARE – your salt limit for the DAY is 1600 mg, so if you eat the whole can, that’s 900+ mg.  You could make your own soup, but…

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