A Spoonful of Comfort & Nutrition
Soups provide easily available nutrition and are easier to digest than most other forms of food. Liquid food limits strain on your digestive system. Your body absorbs liquids easily, and they don’t irritate the digestive tract.
Soups promote healthy elimination. Warm food increases blood circulation to your abdominal organs and helps to stimulate elimination. Most vegetarian soups, especially if bean-based or lentil-based, will provide a lot of fibre that so many of us are lacking.
Liquid-based meals let digestive systems rest, help to eliminate toxins, and help to clear heavy food-induced mental fog. The reduction of stress or strain on the digestive system can often alleviate nausea, constipation and diarrhoea in people dealing with digestive issues.
Soups are easy and quick to make, let’s face it, what’s easier than just throwing everything into one pot and letting it simmer?
Mistakes When Making Soup
If your soup doesn’t taste good, it’s usually one the following reasons:
- Not enough salt, oil, or cooking time
- Too many ingredients in the pot
How to make a simple, tasty soup
Choose a simple stock and then experiment with tastes.
Optional ingredients
You may add one option from each line without ruining the soup:
- 1 protein: beans, lentils or peas (split)
- Sweetener: dates
- Black or cayenne pepper
- Lemon or vinegar to make it sour
- One to three spices (try cumin, cinnamon, oregano, thyme, or experiment with your own ideas)
- Onions
- Garlic
- Turmeric
- Ginger
- Garnish with nuts or fresh herbs to taste
Use the 15-day Eat To Live Plan and swap some of the ideas we have given you with these delicious recipes. They can be eaten on their own, or you can add a salad with it, for a variety of nutrients from cooked and raw foods.
You can also make some wraps to go with the soup – they are quite thick so they could be used almost as a naan bread.
Another idea would be to make your own bread from sprouted grains. Visit the website for Healthy Bread recipes.
Here are some more deliciously healthy soup recipe ideas: Supportive Soups For Extra Health Benefits – try one of the RAW soups – its not as strange as it sounds!!!!
For information on how to take advantage of the medicinal value of these delicious ingredients, by incorporating them into your daily diet – follow the link to our “Food As Medicine” page or you can read more on the specific Therapeutic Foods, Supplements and Herbs that DBM use frequently in their health programs, on this link.
| “The wealth of ingredients in a bowl of soup provides a good balance of carbohydrates, protein and fats as well as the vitamins and minerals required to create energy and keep us firing on all cylinders.” – Fiona Kirk |
