Did you know?
Soup is one of the best kept secrets to appetite control and weight loss. Research at Pennsylvania State University shows that men and women consuming two servings of low-calorie soup daily lost a whopping 50 percent more weight than those consuming the exact same number of calories with snack foods.
The secret is soup's combination of high water and low calories. Make sure to choose broths or vegetable soups, not their creamy-rich cousins.
(http://www.thatsfit.com)
Monday, June 21, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS TRYING TO SHED THE POUNDS FOR SUMMER?
SEND THEM A SOUPOGRAM!
Losing weight, in time for summer, is never an easy task. The process is long and takes a lot of effort and hard work - both mentally and physically. There are many steps that a person needs to take to get to a new, healthier and slimmer body.
To show your friend or loved one that you are rooting for them on their painstaking journey, Soupogram Inc has launched a gift basket called “Good Luck on Your Diet” and makes for showing your support that much more motivating. The “Good Luck on Your Diet” package is sold for $36.50 (not including delivery) and can be purchased at www.soupogram.com. The package contains a choice of 7 delicious Homemade Frozen Soups for every day of the week, Spoon, Bottled water, Healthy Nut mix & Personalized Greeting Card (to help show your support).
Soupogram warms tummies and hearts with its unique service of delivering delicious, homemade soups that are dairy-free, low in fat and contain no preservatives. This is a great, innovative way to show someone you care. The soup selection includes butternut squash, split pea delight, tomato, minestrone, chunky chicken and more.
Soupogram Inc delivers gift baskets and soups across the GTA, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Markham and Brampton area.
About Soupogram: Soupogram Inc. is the only food delivery company that warms hearts and tummies, with our delicious all natural homemade soups. Our soups are gluten free, dairy free, are low in fat and contain no preservatives. Anyone can enjoy the experience of one of our soothing packages. Send a Soupogram to a loved one, friend, co-worker, or someone who just needs a little TLC. Let SOUPOGRAM show that special person you care and are thinking of them. Whenever possible we prefer to use Ontario produce in our soups. Soup Delivery is available across the GTA and Surrounding Area. Order your gift package online at www.soupogram.com.
Losing weight, in time for summer, is never an easy task. The process is long and takes a lot of effort and hard work - both mentally and physically. There are many steps that a person needs to take to get to a new, healthier and slimmer body.
To show your friend or loved one that you are rooting for them on their painstaking journey, Soupogram Inc has launched a gift basket called “Good Luck on Your Diet” and makes for showing your support that much more motivating. The “Good Luck on Your Diet” package is sold for $36.50 (not including delivery) and can be purchased at www.soupogram.com. The package contains a choice of 7 delicious Homemade Frozen Soups for every day of the week, Spoon, Bottled water, Healthy Nut mix & Personalized Greeting Card (to help show your support).
Soupogram warms tummies and hearts with its unique service of delivering delicious, homemade soups that are dairy-free, low in fat and contain no preservatives. This is a great, innovative way to show someone you care. The soup selection includes butternut squash, split pea delight, tomato, minestrone, chunky chicken and more.
Soupogram Inc delivers gift baskets and soups across the GTA, Mississauga, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Markham and Brampton area.
About Soupogram: Soupogram Inc. is the only food delivery company that warms hearts and tummies, with our delicious all natural homemade soups. Our soups are gluten free, dairy free, are low in fat and contain no preservatives. Anyone can enjoy the experience of one of our soothing packages. Send a Soupogram to a loved one, friend, co-worker, or someone who just needs a little TLC. Let SOUPOGRAM show that special person you care and are thinking of them. Whenever possible we prefer to use Ontario produce in our soups. Soup Delivery is available across the GTA and Surrounding Area. Order your gift package online at www.soupogram.com.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
What is a Soup Diet?
Do you want to be able to eat as much as you want and not put on any weight? Try the Soup Diet. Soups contain very little fat value, but are rich with all other sources of the food groups, hence this is an awesome diet for all those trying to lose weight. Check out this blog with all the details:
http://letgohealthy.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-is-soup-diet.html
http://letgohealthy.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-is-soup-diet.html
Thursday, February 25, 2010
The Healing Power of Soup
I found this amazing article on the healing power of soup. What a great read; enjoy!
Prudent Press Agency)--- From helping you lose weight to warming you up from the inside out to boosting your immunity, soup is a winter staple that you shouldn’t be without. Maybe that is one reason that it is celebrated this month with its very own National Soup Month. Here's a closer look at what you can do to benefit from soup's amazing healing powers.
The healing power of soup
An ancient Chinese proverb states that a good doctor uses food first, then resorts to medicine. A healing soup can be your first step in maintaining your health and preventing illness. The therapeutic value of soup comes from the ease with which your body can assimilate the nutrients from the ingredients, which have been broken down by simmering.
Here are some healing soup tips that will preserve your wellness and longevity:
1. Lose weight with soup
Obesity is on the rise throughout the industrialized world, resulting in a startling increase in the rates of heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes. You can count yourself out of the statistics if you eat a bowl of soup at least once a day. Nutritious low-salt soups will nourish you as they flush excess wastes from your body. It has been found that people who eat one serving of soup per day lose more weight than those who eat the same amount of calories, but don’t eat soup. Homemade soup is your best bet, because canned soups tend to be loaded with salt and chemicals. My advice is to use organic vegetables whenever possible. The herbicides and pesticides that can be present in conventional produce can assault the immune system and overload it with toxins.
2. Build your immunity
Your immune system needs a lot of minerals to function properly and the typical Western diet does not always hit the mark. When you slowly simmer foods over low heat, you gently leach out the energetic and therapeutic properties of the foods, preserving the nutritional value of the foods. Keep in mind that boiling can destroy half of the vitamins found in vegetables, so cook soup over a low heat.
Immune-Boosting Soup
Simmer these ingredients for 30 minutes: cabbage, carrots, fresh ginger, onion, oregano, shiitake mushrooms (if dried, they must be soaked first), the seaweed of your choice, and any type of squash in chicken or vegetable stock. Cabbage can increase your body’s ability to fight infection, ginger supports healthy digestion, and seaweed cleanses the body. Shiitake mushrooms contain coumarin, polysaccharides, and sterols, as well as vitamins and minerals that increase your immune function, and the remaining ingredients promote general health and well-being. Eat this soup every other day to build a strong and healthy immune system.
3. Detoxify your body
As a liquid, soup is already helping you flush waste from your body. When you choose detoxifying ingredients, such as the ones featured in the recipe below, you are really treating your body to an internal cleanse. The broth below boasts many benefits: it supports the liver in detoxification, increases circulation, reduces inflammation, and replenishes your body with essential minerals.
Super Detoxifying Broth
Simmer the following for 1–2 hours over a low flame: anise, brussels sprouts, cabbage, Swiss chard, cilantro, collards, dandelion, fennel, garlic, ginger, kale, leeks, shiitake mushrooms, mustard greens, daikon radish, seaweed, turmeric, and watercress. Drink 8 to 12 ounces twice a day. You can keep this broth in your fridge for up to one week; however, it is always best to serve soups when fresh because each day, the therapeutic value decreases.
In addition to using cleansing herbs in soups, you can take cleansing herbs in supplements. For a gentle but powerful cleanse using Chinese herbs, Internal Cleanse increases the ability of the liver to cleanse the body of internal and environmental toxins.
4. Warm up with a hearty soup
You always want to eat for the season. Soups provide something the body craves in cold weather. When you cook foods into a soup, you are adding a lot of what Chinese nutrition would call “warming energy” into the food. Warming foods to feature in your soups include: leeks, onions, turnips, spinach, kale, broccoli, quinoa, yams, squash, garlic, scallions, and parsley. As a spice, turmeric aids with circulation, a great boost against the cold weather.
5. Get well faster
As you mother may have instinctively known, when you are sick, there is no better healing food than soup. The reason for this is that soups and stews don’t require as much energy to digest, freeing your body up to fight the infection.
It would be impossible to talk about soup’s healing abilities without putting the spotlight on homemade chicken noodle soup. Studies have found that chicken noodle soup does seem to relieve the common cold by inhibiting inflammation -- helping to break up congestion and ease the flow of nasal secretions.
While chicken soup may not cure a cold outright, it does help alleviate some of the symptoms and can help as a preventative measure. Many of my patient’s keep the herbal formula Cold & Flu in their medicine cabinets so its there to support recovery when a cold strikes.
In Chinese medicine, you would traditionally be given a tonic soup specifically tailored to your needs, and for that level of personal care, it is a good idea to consult a health practitioner knowledgeable in Chinese nutrition.
I hope you have gotten a taste of the healing power of soup! I invite you to visit often and share your own personal health and longevity tips with me.
Prudent Press Agency)--- From helping you lose weight to warming you up from the inside out to boosting your immunity, soup is a winter staple that you shouldn’t be without. Maybe that is one reason that it is celebrated this month with its very own National Soup Month. Here's a closer look at what you can do to benefit from soup's amazing healing powers.
The healing power of soup
An ancient Chinese proverb states that a good doctor uses food first, then resorts to medicine. A healing soup can be your first step in maintaining your health and preventing illness. The therapeutic value of soup comes from the ease with which your body can assimilate the nutrients from the ingredients, which have been broken down by simmering.
Here are some healing soup tips that will preserve your wellness and longevity:
1. Lose weight with soup
Obesity is on the rise throughout the industrialized world, resulting in a startling increase in the rates of heart disease, stroke, cancer, and diabetes. You can count yourself out of the statistics if you eat a bowl of soup at least once a day. Nutritious low-salt soups will nourish you as they flush excess wastes from your body. It has been found that people who eat one serving of soup per day lose more weight than those who eat the same amount of calories, but don’t eat soup. Homemade soup is your best bet, because canned soups tend to be loaded with salt and chemicals. My advice is to use organic vegetables whenever possible. The herbicides and pesticides that can be present in conventional produce can assault the immune system and overload it with toxins.
2. Build your immunity
Your immune system needs a lot of minerals to function properly and the typical Western diet does not always hit the mark. When you slowly simmer foods over low heat, you gently leach out the energetic and therapeutic properties of the foods, preserving the nutritional value of the foods. Keep in mind that boiling can destroy half of the vitamins found in vegetables, so cook soup over a low heat.
Immune-Boosting Soup
Simmer these ingredients for 30 minutes: cabbage, carrots, fresh ginger, onion, oregano, shiitake mushrooms (if dried, they must be soaked first), the seaweed of your choice, and any type of squash in chicken or vegetable stock. Cabbage can increase your body’s ability to fight infection, ginger supports healthy digestion, and seaweed cleanses the body. Shiitake mushrooms contain coumarin, polysaccharides, and sterols, as well as vitamins and minerals that increase your immune function, and the remaining ingredients promote general health and well-being. Eat this soup every other day to build a strong and healthy immune system.
3. Detoxify your body
As a liquid, soup is already helping you flush waste from your body. When you choose detoxifying ingredients, such as the ones featured in the recipe below, you are really treating your body to an internal cleanse. The broth below boasts many benefits: it supports the liver in detoxification, increases circulation, reduces inflammation, and replenishes your body with essential minerals.
Super Detoxifying Broth
Simmer the following for 1–2 hours over a low flame: anise, brussels sprouts, cabbage, Swiss chard, cilantro, collards, dandelion, fennel, garlic, ginger, kale, leeks, shiitake mushrooms, mustard greens, daikon radish, seaweed, turmeric, and watercress. Drink 8 to 12 ounces twice a day. You can keep this broth in your fridge for up to one week; however, it is always best to serve soups when fresh because each day, the therapeutic value decreases.
In addition to using cleansing herbs in soups, you can take cleansing herbs in supplements. For a gentle but powerful cleanse using Chinese herbs, Internal Cleanse increases the ability of the liver to cleanse the body of internal and environmental toxins.
4. Warm up with a hearty soup
You always want to eat for the season. Soups provide something the body craves in cold weather. When you cook foods into a soup, you are adding a lot of what Chinese nutrition would call “warming energy” into the food. Warming foods to feature in your soups include: leeks, onions, turnips, spinach, kale, broccoli, quinoa, yams, squash, garlic, scallions, and parsley. As a spice, turmeric aids with circulation, a great boost against the cold weather.
5. Get well faster
As you mother may have instinctively known, when you are sick, there is no better healing food than soup. The reason for this is that soups and stews don’t require as much energy to digest, freeing your body up to fight the infection.
It would be impossible to talk about soup’s healing abilities without putting the spotlight on homemade chicken noodle soup. Studies have found that chicken noodle soup does seem to relieve the common cold by inhibiting inflammation -- helping to break up congestion and ease the flow of nasal secretions.
While chicken soup may not cure a cold outright, it does help alleviate some of the symptoms and can help as a preventative measure. Many of my patient’s keep the herbal formula Cold & Flu in their medicine cabinets so its there to support recovery when a cold strikes.
In Chinese medicine, you would traditionally be given a tonic soup specifically tailored to your needs, and for that level of personal care, it is a good idea to consult a health practitioner knowledgeable in Chinese nutrition.
I hope you have gotten a taste of the healing power of soup! I invite you to visit often and share your own personal health and longevity tips with me.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
How do you eat your soup?
According to www.everything2.com and the 'Newsbites' section of 1996's issue of "Food Processing" magazine, you can tell a lot about a person by the way they eat their soup.
Drink soup from a bowl?
Then apparently you are a Carefree Independent; you live life to the fullest, never caring what others may think. You march to the beat of a different drummer, but couldn't be happier.
Drink soup from a mug?
Then you are a Free spirited Enthusiast, not as concerned with etiquette - you are self-reliant and on-the-go. You know how you like it; and do not want to be told how to do things.
Eat soup with a large spoon?
Then you know what you want - in soup and in life; you are a Purposeful Traditionalist. You use the simplest way to get from one point to another.
Eat soup with a small spoon?
Then you are a Cautious Connoisseur, who can be relied on to do what is expected. You avoid making a fuss; and can be a behind-the-scenes organizer.
Drink soup from a bowl?
Then apparently you are a Carefree Independent; you live life to the fullest, never caring what others may think. You march to the beat of a different drummer, but couldn't be happier.
Drink soup from a mug?
Then you are a Free spirited Enthusiast, not as concerned with etiquette - you are self-reliant and on-the-go. You know how you like it; and do not want to be told how to do things.
Eat soup with a large spoon?
Then you know what you want - in soup and in life; you are a Purposeful Traditionalist. You use the simplest way to get from one point to another.
Eat soup with a small spoon?
Then you are a Cautious Connoisseur, who can be relied on to do what is expected. You avoid making a fuss; and can be a behind-the-scenes organizer.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Top 10 Things to do For Valentine's
Hello All,
For all you last-minute scramblers, I've decided to write out a top 10 list of ideas you might consider when thinking of what to do for the one you love....
#10. Breakfast in Bed: Start the day off right: make your love a nice breakfast in bed. If your culinary skills are limited, a bowl of cereal will do, just cut up some fresh fruit or some berries and sprinkle on top.
#9. Massage: Forget about booking the spa- they've been booked 2 months ago for this special day. Go to your local drugstore and get some massage oil and give your lovey a nice soothing massage.
#8. Write a poem: I know it sounds impossible but it's really not that hard. There are many tools to help you too. It doesn't even have to rhyme but if you want it to, why not use this great tool: http://www.rhymezone.com - it is a rhyming dictionary online! Come on, even you could write a poem with this tool!
#7. Movie: rent a movie and snuggle up with some munchies.
#6. Go to the ROM: Remember Valentine's is not just a night event, you could make it a full day filled with romance and what more romantic place than the Royal Ontario Museum.
#5. Light some candles: if you're staying in, light some candles to set the mood. Lavender-scented candles are soothing and relaxing.
#4. Make some dinner: again, if your culinary skills are not great, pick up some stuff at M&M Meatshops. They have great veggie options as well.
#3. Hold hands: when it comes down to it - you really don't need anything but eachother. Tell that person you care by cuddling and holding hands:)
#2. Dance: I know it sounds funny, but turn on your cd player and play some great songs you and your honey can dance to. An older cd is sure to bring back some great memories.
#1. If you hadn't procrastinated until the last second you could have sent the best gift of all: A SOUPOGRAM! :) And this would have taken care of many of the numbers on this list (especially dinner!). Just remember that Valentine's day is everyday. It's never too late to send that special someone (wife, husband, friend, mom/dad) a Soupogram to show you care.
Happy Valentine's Day everyone:)
For all you last-minute scramblers, I've decided to write out a top 10 list of ideas you might consider when thinking of what to do for the one you love....
#10. Breakfast in Bed: Start the day off right: make your love a nice breakfast in bed. If your culinary skills are limited, a bowl of cereal will do, just cut up some fresh fruit or some berries and sprinkle on top.
#9. Massage: Forget about booking the spa- they've been booked 2 months ago for this special day. Go to your local drugstore and get some massage oil and give your lovey a nice soothing massage.
#8. Write a poem: I know it sounds impossible but it's really not that hard. There are many tools to help you too. It doesn't even have to rhyme but if you want it to, why not use this great tool: http://www.rhymezone.com - it is a rhyming dictionary online! Come on, even you could write a poem with this tool!
#7. Movie: rent a movie and snuggle up with some munchies.
#6. Go to the ROM: Remember Valentine's is not just a night event, you could make it a full day filled with romance and what more romantic place than the Royal Ontario Museum.
#5. Light some candles: if you're staying in, light some candles to set the mood. Lavender-scented candles are soothing and relaxing.
#4. Make some dinner: again, if your culinary skills are not great, pick up some stuff at M&M Meatshops. They have great veggie options as well.
#3. Hold hands: when it comes down to it - you really don't need anything but eachother. Tell that person you care by cuddling and holding hands:)
#2. Dance: I know it sounds funny, but turn on your cd player and play some great songs you and your honey can dance to. An older cd is sure to bring back some great memories.
#1. If you hadn't procrastinated until the last second you could have sent the best gift of all: A SOUPOGRAM! :) And this would have taken care of many of the numbers on this list (especially dinner!). Just remember that Valentine's day is everyday. It's never too late to send that special someone (wife, husband, friend, mom/dad) a Soupogram to show you care.
Happy Valentine's Day everyone:)
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Soupogram Inc
Welcome to Soupogram Inc's Blog.
Soupogram Inc. is the only food delivery company that warms hearts and tummies, with our delicious all natural homemade soups. Our soups are dairy free, low in fat and contain no preservatives. Anyone can enjoy the experience of one of our soothing packages. Send a Soupogram to a loved one, friend, co-worker, or someone who just needs a little TLC. Let SOUPOGRAM show that special person you care and are thinking of them.
Whenever possible we prefer to use Ontario produce in our soups. Soup Delivery is available across the GTA and Surrounding Area.
Order your gift package online at www.soupogram.com.
We will be blogging about what we love most: soups, ways to make people smile and gift ideas.
Soupogram Inc. is the only food delivery company that warms hearts and tummies, with our delicious all natural homemade soups. Our soups are dairy free, low in fat and contain no preservatives. Anyone can enjoy the experience of one of our soothing packages. Send a Soupogram to a loved one, friend, co-worker, or someone who just needs a little TLC. Let SOUPOGRAM show that special person you care and are thinking of them.
Whenever possible we prefer to use Ontario produce in our soups. Soup Delivery is available across the GTA and Surrounding Area.
Order your gift package online at www.soupogram.com.
We will be blogging about what we love most: soups, ways to make people smile and gift ideas.
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