The Four Worst Kinds of Soup

I love to make soups but like so many others time is a factor and I just don't have the inclination anymore but now and then I still do but I like to serve "doctored up" commercial soups for dinner and make the soup the total meal. Quick and pretty easy and hubby loves it.

I'm too busy I don't have time to make soup but if I had to it's not like it would be that difficult, nor am I lazy for not doing so. I usually get low sodium canned soup at Whole Foods and they taste just fine to me. SInce I'm a vegetarian I go for bean soup and vegetable soup a majority of the time. If I had a lot of free time on my hands I'd make awesome homemade soup but I don't so I go for the next best thing. Nothing wrong with that.

i can make cream of broccoli soup, sweet potato soup, potato leek soup, and a healthy version of new england clam chowder all without any cream or anything dairy

LMAO, These women who think opening a box is from scratch. I made some really good Chicken Noodle soup last week from scratch and I even made the noodles. It was wonderful but don't make the same mistake that I did...I like to throw several boullion cubes into the water when I cook the chicken and now Knor makes them and they are awesome and add a wonderful flavor so much that I added 8. Mom's, she got me to look at the sodium content of them and - ouch, very high for that great taste. Needless to say, it wasn't a healthy pot of soup but by far one of the best tasting.

LOL! Md4072... "Where do you shop for soup?" People were making soup for umpteen centuries before soup was canned. Don't be so lazy. Pull a soup recipe from the internet and spend a little time in the kitchen. It's very easy and usually tastes much better then canned soups.

A healthy eating tip on homemade soups... if you have used meat or poultry then after cooking the soup refrigerate it. After it has cooled, remove the hardened fat that has caked on the top. Reheat and eat.

The article is correct and the best soups to eat are soups you cook at home. Basic hearty vegetable soups, with or without stew meat, chicken noodle soup, split pea soup with or without ham, minestrone, butternut squash soup, etc. There are many and you can control the salt content when you cook these soups yourself.

You can also make large batches and put the extra in containers to pull from all throughout the week to eat at home or work. I purchased pint and quart size containers and I label them after I cook the different soups. I lost 40 pounds in less than five months of doing this and I also ate healthy in other areas and exercised.

Soups are a great way to supplment your weight loss and to assist you in eating well throughout the course of a week.

How about cooking soups totally from scratch? It seems people have lost the art of cooking, it takes nothing to start from scratch. I am a single mother and work full time, I still have time to make home made broth and then make minestrone or simply throw some small tortellini in the broth and voila!!

Tina Peng - you should have title you're article "Don't Eat Any Kind of Soup". Seriously, are you joking? Where do you shop for soup? After reading your article it seems were stuck with boiled water and dandelions as our only good soup option. I think we should only have one healthy living article "eat sensible portions and exercise". Then we can avoid wasting out time reading irrelevant articles such as this one.

Tina Peng - you should have titled you're article "Don't Eat Any Kind of Soup". Seriously, are you joking? Where do you shop for soup? After reading your article it seems were stuck with boiled water and dandelions as our only good soup option. I think we should only have one healthy living article "eat sensible portions and exercise". This way we can avoid wasting out time reading irrelevant articles such as this one.

This article disappointed me so much. Not becasue of the facts that it put into B/W, bu that it talked about soup (which I LOVE) and it specifically mentioned tomato soup and split pea soup (my two favorites). My numbers jive more with the author's than with EE's. I'm looking at my can of Campbells Split Pea w/ Ham & Bacon (which I know throws the numbers off a bit from a comparison with straight split pea soup). Although most of us look at a can of soup as lunch, meaning we're going to eat the whole thing, most condensed soups are 2 to 2 1/2 servings per can. In this case, 1 serving is 1/2 cup and there are approximately 2 1/2 servings in the can. The numbers are ... 180 calories, 3.5g Total Fat, 850mg Sodium, 27g Carbs, 5g Fiber, 4g Sugars, 10g Protein, 5mg Cholest. (((((PER 1/2 cup SERVING))). Take those numbers X 2 1/2 and you get 450 Calories, 8.75g Total Fat, 12.5mg Cholest., 2,125mg Sodium, 67.5g Total Carbs & 25g Proteins. (((((PER CAN))))).

bon appetit

This article promised the four types of soups to avoid. Is the fourth (Ad Ons) really a type of soup. Don't add crackers? What about salt-free crackers? This artical also recommends clear soups, but broths can be loaded with tons of salt...maybe that's the fourth type to avoid. So, basically, avoid soups altogether?

Excellent observations and comments, EE and leecee. Common sense wins out over all. The nutritional labels are put on our food for a reason. Just take 10 seconds to glance at the nutritional information before making your purchase. As EE put it, in terms of sodium, just watch your intake the rest of the day. No matter what, soup will always be much, much better than any kind of fast food junk.