Low Carb
SoupFor me, getting on a low carb
diet seemed like a dream come true. The low carb Atkins meal plan
allowed me to eat as much as I wanted of my favorite foods. I love
steak, ham, bacon, cheese, omelettes, and all other things greasy
and meaty. In the past, these foods have led to a great deal of
weight gain, but now I could use these sinful food products to drop
the pounds that they had helped me to put on. What I didn't see was
the other side of this diet plan: it ruined my favorite foods for
me!
You see, even if you are eating Filet mignon three times a day,
it is only so long before you get sick of it. The same goes for ham,
bacon, omelettes, and all of the other standard fare in the Atkins
diet. The problem is that people use little creativity when they are
cooking low carbohydrate foods. Protein is what you should eat, and
what is a more obvious source of protein than a big chunk of greasy,
fatty meat? After all, isn't that that lure of the diet in the first
place? You get to eat nothing but meat and lose weight at the same
time! Still, once the novelty wears off, it all starts to taste
disgusting. If it weren't for low carb soup, I would have dropped
out entirely.
Learning about low carb soup, in fact, opened a new world of
possibilities for me. I have always loved soup, but I have never
cooked it very much. I always assumed that it was hard to make, but
this wasn't the case. As a matter of fact, learning to cook low carb
soup almost doubled the choices I had for my meals! Many of the best
known traditional soups, from New England clam chowder, to chicken
soup, to miso soup, are easily adapted to a low carb lifestyle.
Since cream isn't high in carbohydrates, all you have to do to make
low carb chowder is to cut out the potatoes. That isn't that hard,
is it?
Of course, if you want to make a really good low carb soup, You
need to do things the traditional way. It is amazing how much better
a soup prepared by boiling a soup bone tastes than one made with
bullion cubes. Once you try out low carb soups made from scratch,
you'll never go back. They may take a long time, but they also last
a long time, so it is worth it.
