Vegetable Soup (Cabbage Soup Diet)

Good Morning Everyone!! Sorry that it has been awhile since I last did a post.

A neighbor of ours was telling me about this really good soup, but that it was part of a diet/cleanse. She has completed it twice now and has maintained her weight in the past 6 months. After seeing the recipe, I decided...why not try it! I had a picture, but I accidently deleted it. Sorry, no picture for this post. This soup is definitely going to be a keeper for me just to make when soup sounds good! Below is the receipe, but then I also posted what the 7 Day Diet/Cleanse consisted of.

Ingredients:

6 large green onions

2 green peppers

 2 cans of tomatoes (diced or whole) or 2 cans of Rotel

3 carrots

1 container (10 oz. or so) mushrooms

1 bunch of celery

half a head of cabbage

1 package spice only soup mix (It said it was okay if I used a different spice mix so I bought a beef stew season mix-made it taste so good!)

2 cubes of bouillon

1 48oz can Low Sodium V8 juice 

Season to taste with pepper, parsley, curry, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, etc. (Little to NO SALT!)

Directions:

1. Slice green onions, put in a pot on medium heat and start to sauté with cooking spray. Do this until the onions are whiter/clearer in color (about 4-6 minutes).
2. Cut green pepper stem end off, then cut pepper in half to take out the seeds and membrane. Cut the green pepper into bite size pieces and add to pot.
3. Take the outer leafs layers off the cabbage, cut into bite size pieces, add to pot.
4. Clean carrots, mushrooms, and celery, cut into bite size pieces and toss them in. Add tomatoes now, too.
5. If you would like a spicy soup, add a small amount of curry or cayenne pepper now.
6. For seasonings, you can use a spice packet of your choice and use beef  bouillon cubes (make sure not to add much salt, if any at all).
7. Use about 8 cups of water and the 48 oz of Low Sodium V8 juice, cover and put heat on low. Let soup simmer for a long time – about 2 hours or until vegetables are tender. **(I didn't let mine simmer for 2 hours because I still like my veggies with a little bit of crunch to them!)

*Helpful Hints*

• Make sure to take a multi-vitamin every day
• Drink plenty of water
• The more soup you eat, the more you will lose

7 Day Diet/Cleanse

Day One:

Fruit: Eat all of the fruit you want (except bananas). Eat only your soup and the fruit for the first day. For drinks- unsweetened teas, cranberry juice and water.

Day Two:

Vegetables: Eat until you are stuffed will all fresh, raw or cooked vegetables of your choice. Try to eat leafy green vegetables and stay away from dry beans, peas and corn. Eat all the vegetables you want along with your soup. At dinner, reward yourself with a big baked potato with butter. Do not eat fruit today.

Day Three:

Mix Days One and Two: Eat all the soup, fruits and vegetables you want. No Baked Potato.

Day Four:

Bananas and Skim Milk: Eat as many as eight bananas and drink as many glasses of skim milk as you would like on this day, along with your soup. This day is supposed to lessen your desire for sweets.

Day Five:

Beef And Tomatoes: Ten to twenty ounces of beef and up to six fresh tomatoes. Drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of water this day to wash the uric acid from your body. Eat your soup at least once this day. You may eat broiled or baked chicken instead of beef (but absolutely no skin-on chicken). If you prefer, you can substitute broiled fish for beef on one of the beef days (but not both).

Day Six:

Beef and Vegetables: Eat to your heart’s content of beef and vegetables this day. You can even have 2 or 3 steaks if you like, with leafy green vegetables. No Baked Potato. Eat your soup at least once.

Day Seven:

Brown rice, unsweetened fruit juices and vegetables: Again stuff, stuff, stuff yourself. Be sure to eat your soup at least once this day.