Hi there 🙂

I must say, soup is my fave meal on fast days!

I usually cook celery and frozen garden peas (the celery for bulk/low cal, the peas for fibre) and if I’m craving carbs, I’ll put a small potato in there with some vegetable stock. 🙂

The one I made today for example was as follows:

110g potato (84 cals)
2 stalks of celery (12 cals)
100g frozen peas (81 cals)
1/2 knorr vegetable stock cube (8 cals)

So this (according to MyFitnessPal App) came in at around 185 calories.

I usually eat 3 larger meals rather than snack throughout the day so feel free to chop some of those calories I suppose 🙂

Bella x

I make the following huge pot of soup and share it with my husband on fast days so it’s 200 calories each and we get approx. 2-3 bowls per person.

3 Knorr chicken stock cubes
350g carrots, chopped
250g onions, chopped
300g leeks, chopped

Boil together the stock, half the carrots, all the onions and half the leeks. Simmer until soft, blend and then add the rest of the carrots and leeks. Simmer until tender, add salt to taste and pepper. This is delicious, hearty and filling. Add 50g cooked chopped chicken breast for protein if you’d like for an extra 70 calories.

A very low cal, quick soup I highly recommend and make a lot is spicy chicken noodle. One chicken stock cube simmered in water (small pot) with a clove of garlic and a knob of ginger as well as thinly sliced chilli to taste (I use red). Add half a nest/block of Sharwood fine noodles to the simmering stock, crushed in your hand or left whole, depending on taste. Add in 25g chopped, cooked chicken breast. Cook for a few minutes, add freshly ground black pepper. Gives 2 bowls at 86 calories per bowl!

My version of Chicken Noodle Soup. Add or omit vegetables as you like. Is quick to make and involves hardly any cooking.
Serves 2

Enough chicken Stock for two bowls of soup. (make from either fresh chicken pieces or left over roast chicken carcass and keep in freezer)
3 x celery sticks finely chopped
Red, Green and yellow pepper finely chopped
Finely sliced mushrooms
Handful of Beansprouts
Handful of Spinach or coriander
1 pack of noodles (I use Amoy Fine vacuum packed noodles)
grated fresh ginger
1 finely chopped chilli
Chopped spring onions (keep some back to add to serve)
Dash of lime juice
Dash of Fish Sauce
Dash of Soy Sauce

Heat the chicken stock and add the ginger, chilli and celery. Bring to a slow boil and add all the other ingredients. Don’t overcook to keep the keep the vegetable fresh and crunchy.

Taste,adjust seasoning, serve in bowls and sprinkle with extra spring onions.

I’m not sure of the calorie count for this soup but if in doubt have it on a non-fasting day.

Starting my diet tomorrow. Thanks all for your soup recipes, I will definitely give them a go! 🙂

One tin of tomatoes 80 calories 3 red peppers 120 (peppers cut and cooked in oven with some fry light) I add chilli and garlic powder and blend
I over estimate the calories so I say 250 calories for the pan ( the pan provides 3 good bowls ) so about 90 cals a bowl xx

I made the simplest Carrot & coriander soup ever on Monday. As I’m shaking up my fastdays and wanted something low GI I tweaked the Weight watchers recipe I usually use and cut out the potato – Total success! It was lovely and thick, tasted yum and made a really good sized 4 portions or 5 or 6 if you were going to use them as snack portions for during the day (I was having mine as my main meal of the day with a bread roll).

About 1kg of carrots, peeled & chopped,
1-2 red onions chopped (to taste),
2 cellery sticks chopped
1 Veg stock cube & 1 Chicken stock cube in 1L of hot water,
1 bunch of fresh coriander,
A bit of dried coriander and pepper to taste.

Method: Bunged everything but the coriander in the slow cooker on high for 2 hours. Added the chopped & dried coriander for the last 10 minutes or so (while the bread roll was warming) and then whizzed it all up in the blender prior to serving.

YUM! and I’ve just worked out the calories and found that splitting it into 4 portions should equate to 100kcal or LESS per portion!!! Crazy good value for calories.

If you really want speed, V8 veg juice is really delicious either as it is hot or cold, or added to other things like onion and lentils. It’s pretty low cal, so you just have to work out what you’ve added cal wise.

Don’t know if you can get this outside UK, but it’s tomato, celery, carrot plus a few other things (beetroot?) and spices.

I use the V8 veg juice as a base for several soups that I do. The spicy tomato one is my favourite, as it adds nice flavour to things like minestrone or beef stew. I use that in place of tinned tomatoes, as neither my husband or my daughter like tomato chunks. I have also dumped it to the pot in place of the stock. Gives it a little thickness and is just very yum! 🙂

have tried this potato soup
Replace your starch filled potato soup with a cauliflower soup and instead add some baked potatoes as a topping. Quite a delicious and low carb diet which you would definitely love.
Calories – 185 per serving
Carbs – 24.9 grams per serving

Spiced Vegetable Broth
Makes 6 one cup serves (abt 60 cal)

100g red lentils (260 cal)
100g cauliflower (20 cal)
120g brown onion (30 cal)
30g celery (4 cal)
100g carrot (23 cal)
2 vege. stock cubes (12 cal)
150g tomato (20 cal)
4 cups water

Wash lentils.
Finely dice vegetables and combine with a powdered spice mix. Sweat down for a few minutes in a little water. The spice blend I used was:

1 tsp ground coriander seeds
1/2 tsp ground cumin seeds
1/4 tsp asafoetida
1/4 tsp chilli powder
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1/4 tsp garlic powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 bay leaves

Add the red lentils and the rest of the water. Bring to a simmer and cook on a low heat for 15 mins. Remove the bay leaves. Eat as is or blend slightly for a thicker broth.

You can halve the calories by using 100g of cooked lentils (70 cal).

I’ve used this quick and easy soup before that doesn’t take any effort. I take about 4 Tbsp of salsa, most store bought brands are about 15 calories per 2 Tbsp. Add enough water to it to make a bowlful of soup. Microwave to heat it up and enjoy.

Sorry to anyone who tried out my recipe as I left out one very important ingredient,
One litre of water to desolve the stock cube.
So the method should read put all the ingredients into a saucepan or slow cooker including the stock cube desolved in the litre of water. The rest as written.
Enjoy.
Sandra.

If I’m using soup as my main meal on FDs I use any combination of seasonal veg, usually with legumes as they are filling and also supply some protein.

However, If I need a speedy soup that requires no cooking and has almost no calories then I make a miso broth with konjac noodles. It only takes as long to make as the time taken to boil a kettle:
1 sachet miso paste
1/2 packet of konjac (shirataki) noodles
1 1/2 – 2 cups boiling water

Place the boiling water into a large bowl and dissolve the miso into it.
Put the konjac noodles into a sieve and drain. Rinse in hot water. You can cut them into smaller pieces if you prefer.
Add to the miso stock. Eat.
Depending on which brand of products you use this has roughly 160kj (38 calories). I use Hikari Instant Miso Soup sachets (117kj each) and Changs Super LoCal Wok-Ready Konjac Noodles (44kj 1/2 packet)
The konjac noodles make it quite filling and I think it tastes better that commercial cup-a-soups.

You can also turn this into a more complex and larger soup by placing the ingredients into a saucepan and adding shredded asian vegetables (eg bean sprouts, snow peas, spring onions, brocolli, choy sum) and aromatics (eg lime leaves, laksa paste, tamari, fish sauce, lime juice, lemon grass, garlic, ginger, chilli).

Hi Hereigo

I get both the miso and the konjac noodles from my local supermarkets. I live in Australia, so the brands we have may not be the same internationally. All of my local supermarkets carry it (Coles, Woolworths and Foodland). It is shelved with the Asian products rather than with other stocks. All of the supermarkets have multiple brands – some were packets of single serve sachets (which is what the Hiraki brand were) and some were containers or bags of miso paste that you would use 1-2 teaspoons at a time.

If your local supermarkets don’t have miso paste then try health food shops – my local one also carries miso but it is a more expensive place to buy it from. You could also use an ordinary stock cube if you can’t find the miso.

Just in case you haven’t come across konjac before, I probably should also mention that it’s not grain based it’s plant fibre. So very different to normal noodles and a fraction of the calories. If you made this broth with normal noodles the calorie count would be much higher.

some lovely recipes for soup here. I have soup nearly every day for lunch after taking the dogs for a long walk on the beach. I often cheat by buying pre chopped veg from the supermarket usually buy 2 get one free. Yesterday we had butter squash and sweet potato mix and I just added chicken stock and seasoned it. Tasted lovely. Not sure how many calories were in it but it can’t be a lot? I had a bowl full and my husband had a extra large helping with a bread bun. Tomorrow I am making vegetable soup, again pre diced and chopped veg…good at getting your 5 a day into your diet. I always have protein in my main meal…usually chicken because I love it. I do have a soup bible which gives loads of lovely soup recipes in it, may be worth ordering a book. If it hasn’t got calories and nutritional information in you can work it out and write it down on the page. Great for the cold weather and super tasty and filling.

I add salsa or Rotel tomatoes to my veggie soups and OMG, I even crave it on non-fast days.

Mexican soup. my favorite. a small piece of chilli pepper (30 g)

1 tablespoon of olive oil (10 g)

2 onions (200 g)

2 red peppers (500 g)

1/2 cans of corn (100 g)

4 cups of broth (1000 g)

100g of chicken minced meat (100 g)

1 tablespoon of tomato paste (100 g)

1/2 cans of red beans (200 g)

1 can of tomatoes (400 g)

In a pot, sauté the onions in olive oil, add the diced peppers. Fry 3 minutes.

Add minced meat and vegetable broth. Cook for 10 minutes.

Add beans and corn.

Add tomatoes in a tin and tomato purée.

Mix whole, season to taste and cook until the peppers are soft and the soup is thick.

Wow, thanks for all the amazing recipes.

Without the cheesey bread Tesco’s ‘Nana’s Magic Soup’ comes in at 97 according to the comments on the recipe page!

https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/nanas-magic-soup.html