Recipe “Diet” cabbage and tomato soup (crockpot)

Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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It’s no secret that I have to lose weight (sigh.) The cabbage/tomato soup recipe is well known in the dieting world as a “free” food. That is, you can eat all you want without gaining weight. With that in mind, I thought I’d post my own variant. Here goes (6 qt crockpot):

2, 28 oz cans crushed tomatoes
1, 28 oz can tomato sauce
1 large onion, diced
1 large potato, peeled and diced (optional)
4-6 large cloves of garlic, chopped finely
1 package baby carrots, whole
1/2 (or more, you choose) head of cabbage, chopped
3 stalks celery, diced (I don’t normally use it, but you can)
1, 14 oz can of green beans, drained

1 Tbsp oregano
1 tsp basil
3 whole bay leaves
2-3 Tbsp beef boullion powder (to taste)
½ tsp cayenne pepper
2-3 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 Tbsp sugar (if the tomato mixture is too acidic)

Put the tomato sauce in the crock and heat until quite warm (bubbling at the edges.)
I then pull 1-3c of the tomato sauce and place into a bowl in reserve (probably not needed.)
Add 1c hot water to thin it out. Stir in. Adjust tomato sauce/water ratio until you like the consistency
Dice and add onions and garlic
Peel and dice potato (if used) and add
Add baby carrots
Add green beans
Add celery if used

Add spices and boullion. Adjust to taste.
Allow to cook a couple hours

Dice and add cabbage (I had to remove a bit more tomato base at this point)

Simmer in the crock covered 4-6 hours. Enjoy


NOTE: All my “from scratch” dishes are ad-hoc, in that I don’t normally follow a strict recipe. Depending on my “mood” when I make something, I’ll adjust the ingredients. You’ve been told… :D
 
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Chicory

Chicory

#KeeptheRepublic
Dennis Olson said:
It’s no secret that I have to lose weight (sigh.) The cabbage/tomato soup recipe is well known in the dieting world as a “free” food. That is, you can eat all you want without gaining weight. With that in mind, I thought I’d post my own variant. Here goes (6 qt crockpot):

2, 28 oz cans crushed tomatoes
1, 28 oz can tomato sauce
1 large onion, diced
1 large potato, peeled and diced (optional)
4-6 large cloves of garlic, chopped finely
1 package baby carrots, whole
1/2 (or more, you choose) head of cabbage, chopped
3 stalks celery, diced (I don’t normally use it, but you can)
1, 14 oz can of green beans, drained

1 Tbsp oregano
1 tsp basil
3 whole bay leaves
2-3 Tbsp beef boullion powder (to taste)
½ tsp cayenne pepper
2-3 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 Tbsp sugar (if the tomato mixture is too acidic)

Put the tomato sauce in the crock and heat until quite warm (bubbling at the edges.)
I then pull 1-3c of the tomato sauce and place into a bowl in reserve (probably not needed.)
Add 1c hot water to thin it out. Stir in. Adjust tomato sauce/water ratio until you like the consistency
Dice and add onions and garlic
Peel and dice potato (if used) and add
Add baby carrots
Add green beans
Add celery if used

Add spices and boullion. Adjust to taste.
Allow to cook a couple hours

Dice and add cabbage (I had to remove a bit more tomato base at this point)

Simmer in the crock covered 4-6 hours. Enjoy


NOTE: All my “from scratch” dishes are ad-hoc, in that I don’t normally follow a strict recipe. Depending on my “mood” when I make something, I’ll adjust the ingredients. You’ve been told… :D
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I omit potato and green beans. And I add diced zucchini and chick peas. Then sprinkle with parmesan cheese in the bowl.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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If you add cheese, it’s kinda not diet anymore. (I love cheese. I’d eat cardboard if there was melted cheese on it.)

The zucchini would turn to mush quickly, it seems to me. You’d have to add it right near the end.
 
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summerthyme

Administrator
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Well, the sugar is necessary to balance the flavor. Its not really a low carb soup anyway, but certainly low in fat. I'd be afraid that unless you eat a square of hard cheese or a hard boiled egg with it, you're just going to be hungry again an hour or two later.

Summerthyme
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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You can add sugar substitute such as monkfruit sweetener. You can leave out the potato for lower carb.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
There’s a similar thread here about this soup, I posted to it my version that I call zero sum soup, some else posted their version called survival soup.
 
rafter

rafter

Since 1999
The cabbage soup diet is a start...at least you are taking the first step....but you can't do it long term. You need to find a diet that you will and can stick to for the duration. What do you like to eat...I mean besides pizza and bread? If you like meat do a low carb or keto diet. If you like a mix of things do weight watchers.

I've been on dozens of diets...most all work for the time you are on them....but sooner or later you will want to return to the real world of eating.

I started GOLO yesterday...we will see how it goes on this one. GOLO is pretty much clean eating...no processed...no sugar.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
rafter said:
The cabbage soup diet is a start...at least you are taking the first step....but you can't do it long term. You need to find a diet that you will and can stick to for the duration. What do you like to eat...I mean besides pizza and bread? If you like meat do a low carb or keto diet. If you like a mix of things do weight watchers.

I've been on dozens of diets...most all work for the time you are on them....but sooner or later you will want to return to the real world of eating.

I started GOLO yesterday...we will see how it goes on this one. GOLO is pretty much clean eating...no processed...no sugar.
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He needs a lifestyle change, a change in daily habits, not a diet this is why I tell people to start with the 21 Day Fix meal plan with beach body on demand. Three small meals, three small snacks and the container system with meal prep on Sunday is very easy to learn. If he joins beach body he will have access to all 45 plus programs plus the cooking show, Autumn is Italian and she’s not giving up pasta or sauce ever!

And then join the support groups on Facebook.

Orion Commander is down sixty plus pounds since we started, Ive gained weight back and need to stop drinking soda.
 
Butterfly

Butterfly

Senior Member
You want to lose weight AND get healthy? Check out the protein sparing modified fast (PSMF), it keeps your blood sugar from spiking, keeps you satisfied and not raging hunger, fuels your muscles, etc. Keto Naturpath explains it well on YT. You don't have to do it every day to get results. Just keep the carbs down and eat lean protein. Here is a link to the explanation video:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeBQY9gkr8g
 
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Butterfly

Butterfly

Senior Member
The food industry has been lying to us for decades!!! Carbs are not necessary for health. Protein is - and so is fat! Just eating meats (poultry, beef, fish, pork, etc.). It keeps inflammation down; it keep your blood sugar stable. Low carb Keto is the way to go. I'm down over 100 lbs in the last few years. Off all b/p meds now. Healthier than I have been in decades. Heading toward my weight when I was in my 20's. I'm 70+ now!
 
Raggedyman

Raggedyman

Res ipsa loquitur
Butterfly said:
The food industry has been lying to us for decades!!! Carbs are not necessary for health. Protein is - and so is fat! Just eating meats (poultry, beef, fish, pork, etc.). It keeps inflammation down; it keep your blood sugar stable. Low carb Keto is the way to go. I'm down over 100 lbs in the last few years. Off all b/p meds now. Healthier than I have been in decades. Heading toward my weight when I was in my 20's. I'm 70+ now!
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absolutely correct - as has MEDICINE and its bastard brother BIG PHARMA. not all fats are created equally. there are "good fats" and "bad fats". just as most people do not realize eating fat doesn't translate to "getting fat", most do not realize that the "low fat diet" craze of the 70's and 80's did NOT do the waistlines or lipid (cholesterol) profiles of western civilization any favors - but rather quite the opposite.

did you know that eating the RIGHT KINDS of fats will actually LOWER your cholesterol and improve your lipid profile? did you know that its actually BETTER for you to fry your food in BACON GREASE, BUTTER or LARD than it is fry it in corn, peanut or canola oil? did you know that the typical low fat high carb diets most of western civilization consumes actually LEADS to many health problems? not the least of these are obesity, hypertension, type II diabetes (the combination of those three are aka metabolic syndrome) and NALFD - non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). NAFLD which can lead to fibrotic change in the liver and ultimately to cirrhosis is becoming increasing common in western civilization and is one of the major causes of liver transplant.

there is a LOT to know and learn about "good fats v. bad fats" - but its not a difficult undertaking. here is a link to hopefully pique your interest https://www.carbmanager.com/article/xt6ggbiaacmaw2co/best-and-worst-fats-for-keto/. the KETO diet is quite capable of significantly improving and in many cases reversing - many of America's health conditions. its been widely discussed here on TB2K and has many advocates.

the combination of good fats and low carbs - those are your friends. ​
 
Freeholder

Freeholder

This too shall pass.
Combined with some meat or eggs, that soup looks pretty good. I might sprinkle a little parmesan cheese on top of my bowl.

I'm doing intermittent fasting, mostly sticking to one meal a day. Not doing anything special otherwise, and slowly losing weight (down about twelve pounds in the last couple of months). Slow weight loss is fine with me, because I'm never so hungry that I give up and binge-eat. When I get a little bit hungry outside my eating window, I drink water or plain tea (black coffee would work, too). You can't do soda, though, not even diet soda. I like being able to eat normally, because the only change is that I'm skipping two meals a day (started with one, when I first started doing IF, but that was about five or six years ago).

Kathleen
 
rafter

rafter

Since 1999
My son had I think it is called a gastric sleeve. He was only 75 pounds over weight, but decided he just didn't want to fight it the rest of his life. He is in his 40's and I didn't know about till it was done. He paid for it himself since he wasn't overweight enough for insurance to do it.

IMO he looks too thin. He is 6'5". I ask him if he eats enough...he said he has to make himself eat. He said they took out of his stomach what makes you hungry. Drastic, but if it's the only way, it may be something to look into.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
Raggedyman said:
absolutely correct - as has MEDICINE and its bastard brother BIG PHARMA. not all fats are created equally. there are "good fats" and "bad fats". just as most people do not realize eating fat doesn't translate to "getting fat", most do not realize that the "low fat diet" craze of the 70's and 80's did NOT do the waistlines or lipid (cholesterol) profiles of western civilization any favors - but rather quite the opposite.

did you know that eating the RIGHT KINDS of fats will actually LOWER your cholesterol and improve your lipid profile? did you know that its actually BETTER for you to fry your food in BACON GREASE, BUTTER or LARD than it is fry it in corn, peanut or canola oil? did you know that the typical low fat high carb diets most of western civilization consumes actually LEADS to many health problems? not the least of these are obesity, hypertension, type II diabetes (the combination of those three are aka metabolic syndrome) and NALFD - non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). NAFLD which can lead to fibrotic change in the liver and ultimately to cirrhosis is becoming increasing common in western civilization and is one of the major causes of liver transplant.

there is a LOT to know and learn about "good fats v. bad fats" - but its not a difficult undertaking. here is a link to hopefully pique your interest https://www.carbmanager.com/article/xt6ggbiaacmaw2co/best-and-worst-fats-for-keto/. the KETO diet is quite capable of significantly improving and in many cases reversing - many of America's health conditions. its been widely discussed here on TB2K and has many advocates.

the combination of good fats and low carbs - those are your friends. ​
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Did you know there is a huge difference in the types of fat on a grass fed cow versus a grain fed cow? Watched a show on this topic, don't remember where now, I do remember there were spurts there from Iowa State University Extension, Ag, and ISU Vet School and they had huge slabs of both types of beef, raised locally, to show as examples. Most people are getting the wrong type of beef and pork fat. Another words those grain fed cows aren't entirely healthy... now if their feed is being supplemented with hay then they have a chance at being healthier, but apparently a lot of feed lots are skipping the hay fed portion now. The reason I pointed out ISU is because their extension people said "well maybe we've been giving bad advice on feeding calves".
 
Raggedyman

Raggedyman

Res ipsa loquitur
packyderms_wife said:
Did you know there is a huge difference in the types of fat on a grass fed cow versus a grain fed cow? Watched a show on this topic, don't remember where now, I do remember there were spurts there from Iowa State University Extension, Ag, and ISU Vet School and they had huge slabs of both types of beef, raised locally, to show as examples. Most people are getting the wrong type of beef and pork fat. Another words those grain fed cows aren't entirely healthy... now if their feed is being supplemented with hay then they have a chance at being healthier, but apparently a lot of feed lots are skipping the hay fed portion now.
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110% krect packy - and the differences are HUGE . . . in terms of THIS PART of it all . . . in the final analysis it all boils down to $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and profits hoooray for big agribusiness and screw J6P
 
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