Healthy soup/chili recipes????

muriah2

It's so cold and rainy this week, I really wanna make a pot of chili, but I know my recipe is loaded with sodium and cals! HELP!

Louise12

You could use Turkey Mince or Quorn Mince as a healthy alternative!

blooeyes79

I always use the ones from skinnytaste.com they are the best and she lays out all the calories and they are healthy! my fae is the Chicken Taco Chili

lindsaylove07

Weight watchers taco soup! it's healthy, delicious and just a bunch of cans of stuff thrown into a pot! I'll have to go home and get the recipe though, sorry to be such a recipe tease!

nab22

Try this one! You can sub ground turkey for the beef

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ellie-krieger/three-bean-and-beef-chili-recipe/index.html

WifedUpMartin

I'm gonna come back to check on this thread! I was looking for the same kind of recipes!

garcian22

I tried this turkey chili recipe from allrecipes.com a while back and loved it. I've continued to make it ever since.

http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/simple-turkey-chili/Detail.aspx

At my fiance's request I added a can of black beans to the recipe, but I love it with or without

TeaBea

Stuffed Pepper soup from Cooking Light - Yum!

Ingredients
1/2 pound ground round
2 cups chopped green bell pepper
1 cup chopped onion
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 (14-ounce) can less-sodium beef broth
1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained
1 (10 3/4-ounce) can tomato soup, undiluted
1 1/2 cups hot cooked white rice
Preparation
Heat a small Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add beef; cook 3 minutes or until browned, stirring to crumble. Add chopped green bell pepper and onion; cook 8 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Stir in black pepper, less-sodium beef broth, diced tomatoes, and tomato soup; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer 45 minutes.

Spoon 1/4 cup hot cooked white rice into each of 6 bowls; top with 1 cup soup.

I use Progresso tomato soup because it's lower in sugar. I also like basil.

weaziemand

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lulusmom

I made a yummy one just this week:

1 can of black beans, rinsed and drained.
1 can of kidney beans, rinsed and drained.
1/2 bag of frozen zuchini and squash
1/2 jar of tomato basil pasta sauce (read labels carefully to get a low sodium/calorie one with no sugar)
1 tablespoon of Cholulua Hot Sauce
1/2 cup of minced onion
2 tablespoons of minced garlic
1 table spoon of black pepper

Simmer for a few hours. I put mine in single-serving containers (it made 3) and ate it for lunch each day. SO yummy and filling. By my calculation, each serving was about 275 calories each.

jr1985

A way to REALLY cut back on the sodium is to use dry beans that you soak and either cook in a pressure cooker or a crock pot, instead of canned, and to use V8 low sodium tomatoe juice - I like the hot and spicy kind in my chili... Use a lot of whole seasonings instead of mixed blends, you are a lot more likely to get a lot of sodium and sugar from mixed blends. Chili powder, Mrs. Dash, red pepper flakes and paprika I believe are all sodium free, and I know are all calorie free. I tend to put a LOT of peppers and onions in my chili as well, great way to add a lot of flavor and get in a veggie serving without adding a lot of calories... I'm not sure of the calorie/sodium ratio, but I put in a packet of taco seasoning with my chili, sounds weire I know but tastes amazing!.

This one is harder to get to be low sodium... but pretty low cal and very tasty!

Pepperoni Soup

1 (3cup) can of double veggie speghetti sauce
4 small cans of low sodium chicken broth (12 oz I think)
1 chopped and seeded red bell pepper (or more
1 chopped yellow onion
6 cloves chopped garlic
1 package hormel pepperoni chopped,
Adobo, Mrs. Dash, Italian Seasonings, red pepper flakes and black pepper to taste... i like mine very spicy so tend to use a LOT

Combine all of the above and cook in a crock pot overnight on low, in the morning break up whole wheat linguini about 6 oz into about 3 inch long pieces It is all ready for you when you come home on your lunch break! You could add more veggies if you like to it, if you are a mushroom fan they would be good in there. I have a friend who adds half and half to his to make it creamier, but i want to save the calories. top with low fat cheese! just the soup makes about 6 servings and is about 300 calories per large bowl

I don't remember the calorie count, but also made a really good roasted butternut squash soup.
Roast your butternut squash with just a little cooking spray until soft throughout, Chop about 4 small honey crisp apples, 1 red pepper and about half an onion, a cook on low in a crock pot with 1 large can of low sodium chicken broth, about 4 cloves of garlic chopped and the de-skinned butternut squash, cook on low overnight wth a lot of yellow curry powder and a little cinnamon, blend it all together with an immulsion blender stick thing the next day, it tastes great and is pretty healthy too.

muriah2

http://www.jennieo.com/recipes/recipe_detail.aspx?Id=1086

Above is the recipe I'm going to try, except with dried beans and fresh tomatoes that I'm cooking myself. Thanks everyone!