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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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Yes, I’m still on my soup kick. After coming down with what my doctor thought was whooping cough for a month, it was so comforting to have soup to eat. It helped my recovery and at one point I was making two or three batches at a time. This recipe comes from Cholesterol Down: Ten [...]
Vegetable soups are powerful food this time of year. Not only do they warm you up on cold winter days, but they provide nutritional wallop – a great defense against viruses. And if you do get a cold or flu? Soup will always make you feel better. Make a double batch and keep half in [...]
I was eating soup at a restaurant the other day and realized what I thought was rice was barley, which was much more healthier and higher in fiber. I should use it more often. This recipe from Sunset magazine’s January 2007 article on Soup Socials is a good start. It combines a classic split pea [...]
The wonderful thing about soup is how good it makes you feel on winter days. It’s a wonderful dish if you’re sick or just tired and cold from shoveling the driveway. And it’s terrific for entertaining, too. In their January 2007 issue, Sunset magazine did a feature on the Soup Social. You can make the [...]
Here’s another inspired vegetarian soup from the January 2007 issue of Cooking Light magazine. Since the soup is very low in fat and high in fiber, it’s only 4 Weight Watchers Points per serving! Try it with a whole wheat pita and a carton of plain yogurt. I found red dal at a local Asian [...]
The January issue of Cooking Light magazine had some terrific vegetarian soups. The Carrot and Sweet Potato Soup is very low in Weight Watchers Points – about 3 Points per serving! This should give you plenty of room for a salad, some bread sticks, and maybe a glass of wine. You may want to double [...]
These days it’s rare that I get a chance to watch Food Network. But I had a chance to check out some of the shows today with some wonderful recipes for Easter. (For more Easter ideas from Food Network, click here.) First on Everyday Italian, there were two fantastic and easy recipes for lentil soup [...]
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