Healthy soups on a diet (vegetables, recipes, calories, cold)

[theluckygal]

Hello!
As soon as the cold front hits, I get this craving for comfort foods like hot chocolate, pumpkin lattes, mint chocolates, etc. This year its SOUPS!!!! I already had few cups of broccoli cheddar soup from subway but scared to check the nutrition content

I am on a salads & fruits diet & dont want to spoil it by adding high sodium or fatty soups. Please suggest some healthy soups from grocery store or food chains (panera bread, etc.) or some tried & tested recipes to make healthy low calorie soups at home. I tried some recipes from internet but they suck.

[lubby]

Lentil soup
chicken noodle
chicken rice soup
pasta fagioli

All homemade of course, they do make those progresso 100 calorie soups and my mom loves them but you have to watch the salt content. Cream based soups are too fattening but are very good LOL

[Luckyd609]

Stay away from soups made with cream and butter. Or soups made with fatty meats, or cheeses.

[CSD610]

I just put stew beef in the slow cooker to make vegetable beef barley soup with part of it and beef and noodles with the rest of it. Both will be put together tomorrow, my husband will be home on Thursday and both will be absolutely delicious with some garlic parmesan crusty italian bread warmed with butter.

The stew beef I get is very lean and I use 1 pound per 8 quarts of soup which is easy, stew beef that I have cooked in the slow cooker and I use frozen vegetables, traditionally peas, carrots, green beans, corn, lima beans and butter beans. Obviously use whatever vegetables you like then I toss in barley and let it simmer on very low flame for hours. Right before I serve I toss in about 1/2 stick of real butter and it gives the soup a beautiful color and adds a wee bit of flavor, salt and peper to taste if you like and tada Vegetable Beef Barley Soup.

[theluckygal]

Thanks for the advice. And great recipe CSD610. I will try some slow cooker recipes. Cant wait

[hershey48]

I make a black bean soup with garlic, onions, chicken broth (or veggie broth), italian seasonings, cumin, and beans. Pretty tasty. Not fattening.

[AnonChick]

Make chicken soup, with a chicken and a bunch of veggies. Refrigerate the soup overnight. The next morning, skim the fat right off the top; it floats up and solidifies in the fridge. Also don't add -any- salt.

Serve the de-fatted soup in a bowl, piping hot. Instead of noodles and salt, add a sprinkle of grated parmasean cheese and have an end chunk of crusty, fresh-baked italian bread ready to sop up the last bits of soup.

[FalconheadWest]

I've been eating the Progresso soups. Not all are 100 calories as some are 80-90, which is better. The problem is that there are 2 servings in each can, and 1/2 the can isn't going to fill you up. However, a 200 calorie mean isn't bad and they are very filling. I don't eat cooked carrots so I'm losing some of the calories there which makes it better. Very filling...

And I also make homemade chicken noodle soup once it gets cold. I freeze it in mason jars so I don't get sick of having it every single day. Skimming the fat the next day is a good idea. But do NOT take the skin off the chicken prior to making the broth or there will be no flavor, at least not all the skin like I did! I tried that last year, and I found myself adding so much "stuff" because it was very bland.

[lubby]

Canned soups have tons of sodium unless the 100 calorie soups are low in salt, I don't know.

[KathrynAragon]

There are many Asian soups that are easy to make and are very low calorie (though they can be high in sodium if you season them up a lot). My favorite is pho:



Recipe:
Closet Cooking: Pho Bo (Vietnamese Beef Noodle Soup)