Cabbage Soup

**sahmof4** · 12-12-2007, 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by stacy160

Mmmmmm, made it with chicken this morning and about to have it for lunch. It's sooooo good!

That does sound yummy with chicken.

**stacy160** · 12-12-2007, 07:58 PM

Ohhhhhhh... there is the "cabbage soup diet". I tried it years ago... it's very simple soup made with no protein at all, and if I remember right, you eat almost nothing BUT that for several days. Basically you're starving yourself... the one thing that I DO remember is that I started it on a Monday and on Friday, day 5, my son and I were standing in the video store and I had to grab a rack to keep from falling down, when I almost passed out. We went straight from there to Taco Bell because I was afraid to drive all the way home without eating anything!

This is really good, hearty soup... it's very non-fattening, but very good for you too with all the veggies AND the meat. I'm not eating it exclusively, but it makes great lunches for work, and the recipe makes enough that you can eat it for a couple of days and still have some to freeze for several more meals, if you want.

**sahmof4** · 12-12-2007, 08:09 PM

Yes, that is, what I remembered the fast. Never did it before, sounds nuts, if your passing out from it.. The funny thing is, I was working at a gym in 1990, when I heard about this diet. They had pamphlets of the diet laying around. You could tear off the instructions and follow the diet. The also had other weird diets like that there too. It was odd to me,because they were a gym and promoting all these bad diets. I think I may even still have a copy of that diet after all these years.

I was 20 at the time so I probably took the paper even though I never tried it. Maybe you already answered this question for me, I forget . How many calories per 1/2, do you know?

**stacy160** · 12-12-2007, 10:19 PM

In my soup? I have no idea really, I never portioned it out. It's not much though... I think a fairly HIGH estimate would be maybe 75 calories a cup with the chicken, maybe 100 with the beef? I dunno! LOL...The only thing in there of any real caloric substance would be the steak sauce (and even that's negligible) and the meat.