Today’s guest post is from cookbook author, Holly Clegg. Holly will be sending me recipes from time to time to feature here at This Mama Cooks! I’m thrilled to be working with her! This recipe comes from Holly’s cookbook Holly Clegg's Trim & TERRIFIC Gulf Coast Favorites. Quick Shrimp and Corn Soup Busy and no [...]
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Soups
With the Pro Bowl and Super Bowl games coming up, preparing a healthy slow cooker dish ahead of time is a great way to keep your family and party guests fed while you watch the game. This dish is based on Pork and Butternut Squash Stew found in the February 2010 issue of Ladies Home [...]
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I’ve been making Taco Soup for years since 1 cup equals 4 Weight Watchers POINTS. It’s so delicious my family loves it, too. Over time, I’ve tried to “health it up” by eliminating the dry ranch dressing (too fake in my opinion) and using store brand organic canned beans and corn. Since my kids thought [...]
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My FoodieView Meal Plan for Oct 18-24 just posted. It features several healthy soup recipes for keeping warm this fall including: Creamy Pumpkin Soup Heart Healthy Lentil Vegetable Soup Coconut Carrot Soup For another soup recipe, stop by my review blog and check out my recipe for Pumpkin Curry Soup. It uses no fat evaporated [...]
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“Beautiful soup, so rich and green Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish Game, or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two Pennyworth of beautiful soup?” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Our first serious [...]
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Just a reminder that you have until midnight MT on October 30, 2008 to enter my Quaker Oatmeal Living Proof contest for one of two chances to win a one month supply of Quaker’s heart healthy breakfast products. Quaker Oats has all kinds of yummy oatmeal recipes on their website. If you’re looking for healthier [...]
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Paul and I went out to Sugarbeet for a Friday night date. We sat outside and watched the trains go by. (Sugarbeet is in an industrial area of town.) I had oysters on the half shell, a scallop ceviche, a pea soup with dill, and a raspberry lemonade cocktail (lemon juice, raspberry liquor, and a [...]
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Paul Simon may have sung, “Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors. Gives us the greens of summers. Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah!” But I think red is the color of summer, at least when it comes to these two low calorie, refreshing summer soups. Both are low [...]
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I’m having a get together next week and have decided to turn it into a “soup and salad” party. While doing my online research, I found out that soup is an excellent food for anyone trying to lose weight or eat more healthfully. Here are a few reasons why: 1. Eating soup helps cut your [...]
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Butternut squash, how I love thee! This recipe came from Chef Rossi at Bust magazine. I’ve made it twice and it’s fantastic. And according to Weight Watchers, it only has 2 Points per cup. Butternut Squash Soup Ingredients: four onions – either white or yellow three med/large butternut squash seasonings: salt, pepper, cumin, corriander, curry, [...]

Holly Clegg’s healthy Thanksgiving cooking: Yam Corn Bread Stuffing
Summer salads: Holly Clegg’s Marinated Shrimp Edamame Salad
Another reader recipe: Roasted Corn and Grilled Shrimp
More healthy Thanksgiving cooking with Holly Clegg: Sweet Potato Casserole
Happy Hanukkah! Healthy Butternut Squash and Sage Latkes
Butternut squash soup
Weight Wather’s Curry-Apple Butternut Squash Salad
Taco Soup
Sunset’s Soup Social – Chinese Hot-and-Sour Soup
Sunset’s Soup Social – herbed carrot soup
Sunset’s Soup Social – Split pea, beef and barley soup
Final contenders – a healthier pumpkin pie?
Cooking Light’s Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup with Cranberry Relish

Cholesterol Down with some four mushroom barley soup
Cooking Light’s Chunky Red Dal Soup
Super Bowl party – Weight Watchers take on the chowder


