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AmberBelandria · February 2016

I have a recipe for Japanese Onion soup. In the recipe it says to use carrots, celery stalks, garlic cloves, onion and mushrooms. You cook all that plus broth in a crock pot for 4-5 hours then strain the vegetables and just eat the soup. My question is do I count the calories, carbs etc from the vegetable I strained or do I omit them because they were just used for flavor?

MelaniaTrump · February 2016

Consider this.
That broth is probably around 10 calories a cup. Nothing.
I would omit the veggies that you strain out.
This is an opinion, and everyone will have different ones.

rainbowbow · February 2016

I personally would log all of the veggies. HOWEVER, i think it's going to be so low calorie it wont make much of a difference.

AmberBelandria · February 2016

I am looking for lower carb, If I count all the veggies that will put me over my carb limit.

CyberTone · February 2016

I could not find a USDA entry in the MFP Food Database created by MFP staff, so I would choose one of the vegetable broth entries already in the Food Database or create my own from the information found in the USDA National Nutrient Database for "Soup, vegetable broth, ready to serve."

AmberBelandria · February 2016

Thank you CyberTone

AmberBelandria · February 2016

That was really helpful!!!

elaineamj · February 2016

Yep - I would just log it as veggie broth. I do the same thing with my homemade chicken or beef stock.

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