Homemade Vegetable Soup Recipe
Soup is one of the easiest and wholesome thick liquid option to those who want to lose weight.Soups can be a good hydration option as it helps to increase your liquid intake throughout the day. It gives you satiety due to the fibres from vegetables / lentils / pulses / etc.
It is a healthier option of one pot meal which includes all essential components like Protein+fiber+antioxidants +vitamins+ minerals.
It Enhances Nutritious value of your meal while maintaining your portion size and calorie count.
It is one of the tasty forms of protein, fibre and low calorie option.
Which soup you should not take if you are aiming for healthy weight loss?
Thinking to lose weight initiates us to focus on every food choice we make nutritiously.
In case of soups, not all soups are the same. In today’s busy lifestyle, one who wishes to lose weight through healthy diet options are prone to select the easiest preparing ready to make food choices.
Packed/canned soups or few soups at the restaurants are loaded with hidden fat and sugar sources in the form of preservatives. The ingredients used are not of fresh quality, leaving the major content of the soup to be starchy, sugar and sodium.
The vegetable content of any instant soup is almost negligible besides containing depleted nutrients.
Just having soup for being healthy is not correct. One has to understand contents, which are not ideal for weight loss and prepare/consume soup accordingly and then only it can be considered healthy.
Checking food labels for the for better food choices in important.
Making soup at home without preservatives and low fat ingredients will help to enhance the value of it. Using
substitutes like fat-free or low-fat milk instead of heavy cream, almond milk, soya milk, blanched vegetable
over canned ones. You can use chicken broth to thicken the soup with pureed vegetables, lentils, beans or
tofu. Simple ingredients like ginger, garlic, cloves and herbs, nutmeg, spices enhances the natural flavours and
promote better absorption of nutrients. Sometimes vegetable soup simply isn’t an option for some people. For
improving the thickness and increasing the satiety level one can add fibre to soups in the form of simple
changes like of oats flour instead of corn flour, soybean flour, unsweetened SMP, etc. Instead of munching on
unhealthy snacks, switching to broth based soups will give you sense of fullness or better satiety.
Avoid using the following ingredients while preparing soups :
- Sugar, Sausages, sodium in high amount
- cornbread, cheese, croutons
- Heavy Cream
- Corn flour / refined flour
- White Rice.
- Cheese sauce / mayonnaise.
- Coconut milk.
- Canned Veggies / Hummus.
- Monosodium glutamate ( MSG ) i.e. Aginomoto.
It’s not just soup, but it’s the complete diet and lifestyle changes that help you lose weight. Tailor-made
diets by the experts are necessary for better results and weight loss.
