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so my health kick lasted all of TWO DAYS...

June 9th, 2009 at 07:35 am

WHY?
Well, I made the worst decision *EVER* yesterday: I decided to BAKE.
(And yes, I do realise that it's somewhat odd that I have a day off from work due to a public holiday, and I spend the day doing ... what I do every day at work anyway...)

I made chocolate chip cookies, spicy pumpkin & herb scones and tomato chutney. We ate the scones with chutney and a salad for lunch. Then we decided to watch a movie (Con Air - I realised I have never seen it before, I was getting it confused with another movie... and anything with Nicolas Cage in it is fine with me...) so I made some popcorn. Then it started getting chilly so I made a cup of tea. Then I needed a chocolate chip cookie to go with my tea...and then another one...

I redeemed myself with potato & leek soup for dinner, but alas, my health kick died the second I started flipping through my recipe books with my morning coffee...

HOWEVER!

I have decided that this is just a minor stumble on my (long and weary, and sometimes chocolate coated) road to a happier and healthier body.

I have discovered SOUP.

Ok, so technically I didn't discover it. But generally my soup consists of throwing everything in the pot and waiting til its cooked. I hardly ever cook a proper soup, from a recipe, except pumpkin soup. But, this week I made a delicious spicy lentil and sweet potato soup. (I don't think DF was overly fond of it, but that's hardly the point here, because *I* liked it). Then I got all enthusiastic about it and made the potato and leek soup I mentioned before. So I think soup is going to be my answer in the battle against winter hibernation-weight-gain. Soup and herbal tea.

If anyone has any good vegetarian soup recipes PLEASE share! Or even soup-esque curries, etc. Next week I am going to attempt to make a roast tomato and fresh basil soup, and also a coriander, coconut and pumpkin soup (I have made that one before - I discovered coconut powder which you mix with hot water to make coconut milk, and it has ZERO cholesterol!)

Anyway, so yes please share your recipes. Or even just the names, and I can google it. Big Grin

7 Responses to “so my health kick lasted all of TWO DAYS...”

  1. Ms. Pearl Says:
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    My daughter is vegetarian and we make "beef" vegetable using crumblers. Very good. Weight watchers has a basic vegetable soup that is good and extremely low cal. Look at their website. I have been struggling lately too. I have been exercising like mad but my intake has been poor...oatmeal raisin cookies and lasagna!

  2. shiela Says:
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    Mixed Vegetable and Bean Soup
    Sweet Potato and Rosemary Soup

    I've been making a lot of soup as well lately, not for diet reason or anything like that, it's just DH and I loves soup when it's cold.

  3. cassandra Says:
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    LOL. Last week I made a shrimp scampi and it was very lemony. I loved it but my boyfriend and brother complained about how lemony it was. I told them to deal with it unless they want to be the ones to cook most nights. That shut them up pretty quickly.

    Do you eat seafood? I found this recipe for shrimp chowder and it is delicious. I'm sure you could substitute something else for the shrimp.

  4. ceejay74 Says:
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    AS hates soup (or at least, thinks it should never be a main dish) so I don't get to make it very often. However, butternut squash soup is super tasty (and simple--main ingredients when I made it were squash, veg. stock, onions, salt, pepper and a splash of malt vinegar). I can't remember if I boiled or roasted the squash, but you like pumpkin so you probably already have a good method you could apply to butternut squash.

    Once I made vegetable ragout--it's like a ratatouille but it had a nice broth and a slightly soupy quality. I got my recipe from the book "Vegan Fire and Spice."

  5. homebody Says:
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    No no Ceejay, not malt vinegar...... half and half!!! Or wait Whitestripe are you vegan? Do they make soy half and half??

  6. Jane Doe Says:
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    Italian wedding soup is fantastic- you could leave out the meat or substitute fake meat. I also love wonton soup (you could use vegetable-stuffed wontons) and egg-drop soups.

  7. whitestripe Says:
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    no not vegan - vegetarian with the exception of occasional fish.

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