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The Original Cabbage Soup Diet

Recipe #105365 | 1¼ hours | 10 min prep | SERVES 20 (Change Servings)

RECIPE BY: Spyder-man

I got this out of the National Enquirer in 1995-1996 when the soup diet originally came out. I don't remember the rules of the diet other than you could eat as much of this as you wanted.

Posted on: Dec 4, 2004

Ingredients

  • head cabbage, chopped
  • 6 onion, sliced or chopped
  • 2 green bell pepper, chopped
  • bunch celery, chopped
  • bunch shallot or green onion, sliced
  • 2 chicken bouillon cube
  • 1 (1 1/4 ounce) envelope onion soup
  • 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar (optional)
  • 48 ounces V8 vegetable juice
  • 2 (28 ounce) cans chopped tomatoes
  • 1 lemon, juice of
  • pepper
  • 6 garlic clove, crushed
  • Directions

    1. 1
      Place all in large stock pot and bring to a boil.
    2. 2
      Simmer for 1 hour.
    3. 3
      Refrigerate all leftovers.

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    From: Gypsysoul_

    On Apr 2, 2008

    I was pleasantly surprised! This is such a great soup, and perfect to suppliment any diet - especially you WW out there! I like spice, so I used Spicy Hot V8, chopped & de-seeded some jalepenos, extra garlic, and then about 12-14 dashes of Tabasco! It's a great pick me up! Thanks for posting!

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    From: Chef #441443

    On Feb 14, 2008

    This was great! It does make alot so after couple days of eating it as cabbage soup I added tiny clams, bacon and tiny diced potatoes to make it a Manhatten Clam Chowder. It was fantastic. A good base eaten as is or add your own ingredients and create another soup.

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    From: Country Cook in Oklahoma

    On Jan 6, 2007

    It's January again and here I go looking for this diet soup..couldn't find my recipe and knew to look here!!! Mine is from the early 60's and much the same as this,the exception being beef bouillon used instead of chicken..I think the balsamic vinegar in this recipe(wish wasn't in mine) would be a great addition to the beef flavor also. Thank so much for posting for safe keeping Spyder-man. BTW you do lose weight on this besides it being so darn good!!!

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    From: Debloves2cook

    On Jul 27, 2006

    Just the recipe I was looking for, of course it was posted on 'zaar! Delicious, I made almost as posted, including the balsamic vinegar which was a great addition! I don't have a pot big enough for all these indgredients so I cut it in half. It did not seem to have enough liquid, so I did add water to just about cover the ingredients and it was perfect for the two of us with plenty for leftovers.

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    Nutrition Facts

    Serving Size 1 (275g)

    Recipe makes 20 servings

    Calories 67
    Calories from Fat 4 (6%)
    Amount Per Serving %DV
    Total Fat 0.5g 0%
    Saturated Fat 0.1g 0%
    Monounsaturated Fat 0.1g
    Polyunsaturated Fat 0.2g
    Trans Fat 0.0g
    Cholesterol 0mg 0%
    Sodium 307mg 12%
    Potassium 597mg 17%
    Total Carbohydrate 15.4g 5%
    Dietary Fiber 3.6g 14%
    Sugars 8.3g
    Protein 2.7g 5%
    Vitamin A 2047mcg 40%
    Vitamin B6 0.3mg 17%
    Vitamin B12 0.0mcg 0%
    Vitamin C 58mg 96%
    Vitamin E 0mcg 2%
    Calcium 60mg 6%
    Iron 1mg 5%

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