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Perhaps my biggest pet peeve is seeing food marketed as “healthy” or “natural” that is anything BUT those things. How can they label bubble-gum flavored apples “100% Natural”?

Of course, I know how. “Natural” is a regulated term that just means derived from nature rather than totally synthesized. But it does not, in any way, mean that the food is presented as it is in nature, or in a way we’ve traditionally prepared it. Hence, we can have “natural” orange juice that has been vat stored for up to a year and had “natural” flavorings added back into it since it would otherwise be flavorless.

“Healthy” is just as ambiguous a term in food marketing. But we buy into it. Over and over.

Case in point? Campbell’s Healthy Request Cream of Mushroom Soup. It says it’s healthy right there on the label. But is it really?

Here’s what the manufacturer claims:

Campbell’s® Healthy Request® condensed Cream of Mushroom soup offers the rich traditional flavor of Cream of Mushroom soup with a more nutritious profile. Great taste made with lower sodium natural sea salt, 98% fat free, 0 grams trans fat, no added MSG, and 480 mg of Sodium per serving. Good source of Calcium.

This soup is part of our Wellness Collection.

It’s got the name “Healthy” right on the label! It’s “more nutritious”! It’s made with “natural sea salt,” has “no added MSG,” and “0 grams of trans fat”! These are all good things…. I think.

Campbell’s Healthy Request Cream of Mushroom Soup: Ingredients

WATER,

MUSHROOMS,

MODIFIED FOOD STARCH,

WHEAT FLOUR,

VEGETABLE OIL (CORN, COTTONSEED, CANOLA, AND/OR SOYBEAN),

SUGAR,

SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE,

CREAM (MILK),

SALT,

POTASSIUM CHLORIDE,

FLAVORING,

LOWER SODIUM NATURAL SEA SALT,

CALCIUM CARBONATE,

DISODIUM GUANYLATE,

DISODIUM INOSINATE,

DEHYDRATED MUSHROOMS

Campbell’s Healthy Request Cream of Mushroom Soup: DECODED

Water and mushrooms need little explanation. We could get picky and ask if it’s clean water and organic mushrooms, but let’s not. Okay?

Modified food starch is a heavily-processed ingredient used as a thickening agent, stabilizer, and emulsifier. It can be made from any number of starchy foods, including corn, wheat, or tapioca. The consensus seems to be that it’s relatively harmless. However, if you’re gluten-sensitive, you’ll want to avoid it unless it’s explicitly labeled “gluten-free.” Also, if it’s made from corn, there’s a 88% chance it’s genetically-modified corn with built-in pesticides and other “goodies.” It’s also likely that modified food starch hides MSG, although this may not always be true for all cases.

Wheat flour is a refined flour with added synthetic vitamins and minerals. While this may not be best for you, it’s also not especially concerning. Many foods are made with refined flours, and this is in low enough quantities that I suspect it’s only here to be a thickener.

Vegetable oil is definitely one of those totally gross products of the industrialization of our food supply that I wish our culture would entirely abandon. Corn, cottonseed, canola, and soybean oil are all highly likely to be from genetically-modified plants. But the real kicker here is that these industrially-produced oils are completely unnatural and new to the human diet:

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Healthy Soup Recipes For Weight Loss Biography

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’ll never forget the moment in a Weight Watchers meeting when the conversation turned to “The Soup.” Everyone in the room, it seemed, owed their success to the Garden Vegetable Soup recipe in the program booklet. Words like “easy,” “yummy” and “filling” kept coming up, and the best ones of all: “virtually calorie-free.” I practically sprinted home to make it that night.

The soup was simplicity itself: carrots, onions, cabbage, ­tomato and spinach simmered with seasonings in broth. It tasted fantastic. And it worked: I ate the soup for lunch most days (and for dinner some busy nights) and lost 15 pounds in a few months without feeling deprived.

Soon I was experimenting with different vegetables, flavors and recipes, from mulligatawny to menudo. Sometimes I added beans or a little meat to give the soups a shot of protein-rich staying power. I brought them to potlucks, rarely letting on that they were my go-to low-cal staples (and the main reason those 15 pounds stayed off).

Fast-forward to a few years ago, when I spotted a woman loading her cart with canned vegetable soups at the supermarket. “These are my meals for the next month,” she joked to the cashier. “I have to lose 10 pounds for my daughter’s wedding.” Inspiration struck: Why not make my fresher, better-tasting (and far less salty) soups a business?

I started sharing my soups with health-conscious friends, who began to tell their friends—and eventually “Veggilicious Soups to Go” was born. Now I have a small business where I simmer up some 20-odd types of soup, delivering locally to folks like my neighbor Anne who crave what she calls “comfort food without the guilt.”

Along the way I’ve learned something else about soup: it’s the best way to serve up vegetables to people who aren’t crazy about them. When nutrient-rich kale, spinach or beets are sautéed with aromatics and herbs and napped in a savory broth, they become something altogether different—and irresistible.

See for yourself how Moroccan Lentil, fragrant with cumin and coriander, will keep you full and happy. Or maybe you’re in the mood for the simple comforts of Mushroom-Beef Noodle? All of the following soups provide at least two servings of vegetables in every bowlful. Simmer up a batch on a weekend and you’ll have healthy meals on tap all week long.

No matter how you dish it up, your own homemade soup is fresher and tastier than the canned stuff. Or to put it another way, it’s just veggilicious.

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Red Lentil Soup Recipe Biography

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This recipe is a Dove favorite, not only for its flavor and simplicity, but also because it came from Claudia Roden, an Egyptian Jewish (now British) food writer born in Cairo. Her Sephardic family loved this soup, whereas I encountered it in Muslim Egyptian households as a Ramadan break fast specialty. Vegans in America love this soup made with vegetarian broth (or water). It's a true Middle East peace recipe.

1 large onion, finely chopped
1 3/4 cups (350 g) split red lentils
7 1/2 cups (1 3/4 liters) meat or chicken stock or water*
Salt and pepper
1 teaspoon cumin
juice of 1/2 to 1 lemon
Extra virgin olive oil to drizzle, to taste.

In a saucepan put the onion, lentils, liquid, a little salt and pepper, and simmer 1/2 hour, or until the lentils have disintegrated. Add water if soup needs thinning. Stir in cumin and lemon juice and adjust seasoning (Leila's note - this really needs salt and lemon in generous quantity). Let people help themselves to a trickle of olive oil.

*Update, three years later. If you aren't using chicken stock, you should really, really put in a cube or two of Knorr bouillon cubes. Vegans and vegetarians will appreciate the vegetarian bouillon cubes. I made this vegan over the weekend and it's just not much fun without the Knorr cubes although you could make it so with plenty of salt and lemon.

I must get twenty referrals a day to this blog from people looking for red lentils, red lentil soup, and so forth.

Serves 6

Claudia lists a half dozen variations, including that of the Baghdadi Jews of India: add 1 teaspoon turmeric, and 2 dried chopped chilies or a good pinch of cayenne pepper. Read The Book of Jewish Food for more information.

In Egypt at Estoril Restaurant or the Automobile Club of Cairo, this soup was served with lime wedges and chopped fresh cilantro. Toasted pita triangles make a nice accompaniment.
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I've had this wonderful red lentil soup at a local Egyptian restaurant a few times and loved it so much I just HAD to find a recipe to share with my family. Last night I made your soup, Claudia, hoping it would be close to what I'd tasted before. It was magnificent! I love the simplicity of the recipes that still burst with flavour. Thank you!

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Cream of Roasted Asparagus Soup by Nutmeg Nanny {Made in the #Vitamix!}

I’m still having a love affair with my Vitamix. Good lord someone save me! I have also been having a love affair with asparagus. It’s my favorite vegetable and was on sale last week, score! I only paid $1.49 a pound! I cannot resist a good sale so I picked up 5 pounds. Maybe a little overkill but it gave me a good excuse to try a few new asparagus recipes. 

Cream of Roasted Asparagus Soup by Nutmeg Nanny {Made in the #Vitamix!}

I had never made asparagus soup before but I knew I wanted to give it a try. Plus I’m always looking for a reason to use my Vitamix. It makes super smooth soups. Like velvet! I should point out that I’m not being paid to say this. Vitamix does not know me and I doubt they have ever even heard of me. I just really really really love this damn thing.

I’m just a girl, standing in front of her Vitamix, asking it to love her. Ok, so that was probably overkill. I just quoted Notting Hill. What is wrong with me today?

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Cream of Roasted Asparagus Soup

yield: 4 1/2 CUPS prep time: 5 MINUTES cook time: 20 MINUTES total time: 25 MINUTES

INGREDIENTS:

1-1/2 pound asparagus, ends trimmed

2 tablespoons olive oil

Salt and pepper

1-1/2 cups chicken stock

1/2 cup heavy cream or half & half (Also works well with unsweetened coconut or almond milk)

Slightly adapted from Vitamix

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

Add asparagus to a high sided sheet pan and drizzle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.

Roast until the stalks are soft but not mushy, about 12 minutes.

Add asparagus stalks to a high powered blender (I used my Vitamix) and pour in chicken stock. Start on the lowest speed and work your way up to the top speed. Blend until smooth and hot, about 6 minutes.

Lower speed and add in heavy cream or half & half. Blend for 30 seconds just to incorporate the dairy.

Pour and enjoy! I drizzled mine with a little sour cream and a few reserved asparagus stalks.

*Note* If you do not have a high powdered blender such as a Vitamix you can still make this soup on the stovetop. Puree roasted asparagus and chicken stock in a regular blender or food processor. Add to a pot and heat until warmed over medium heat. Add cream, heat and enjoy!

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There is such a sense of possibility the New Year always brings. From deep within people find themselves motivated to take action as the calendar starts over anew. Personally speaking, the beginning of a new year has always been a time to allow myself enough grace to try again to achieve a goal that I previously gave up on but never entirely forgot. This is especially true when it comes to different aspects of parenting.

Already I have a long list of mental bullet points I want to tackle when it comes to mothering. From wanting to be more nurturing to making sure I make those teachable moments really count. Now that my daughters are old enough to understand the direct correlation between the decisions and choices they make and the consequences or rewards that result, a top priority for me is to make sure I explain (instead of assuming they know) to them why I feel strongly about certain things especially when it comes to what they eat.

I want them to know why some foods are good and not-so-good for them.

I’m learning to let go little by little the control I have over their food choices and instead try to share knowledge so they can take more responsibility over the foods they eat. Sometimes this means encouraging them to try a new food just because the nutritional value is worth it. For example during the last few months I have been explaining why certain foods such as fibrous whole grains, or the micronutrients from fresh fruits and vegetables, are good for their growing bodies.

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This week I have been discussing with my kids why I love lentils and their protein packed nutrients. Although I am convinced they aren’t really listening to me very closely, I know they must be to some degree because when I recently made lentil soup with leftover holiday ham they did not complain, hesitate, or argue with me. Instead, they complimented me on how delicious the soup was. Score one for me.

Lentils, like some beans, are a type of legume and are high in nutritional value and low in calories. A great source of protein, iron, and B vitamins, lentils also help manage blood sugar levels because of their high fiber, which can lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease.

Today I would like to share a simple and easy recipe for Lentil Soup made with lentils, broth, cumin, and finely minced ham. If feeding your family healthier meals is a goal of yours this month, this recipe will not disappoint. The simplicity of the soup itself is why I love it, and I hope you’ll love it too.

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Recipe: Easy Lentil Soup

Prep Time: 5 min(s) Cook Time: 40 min(s) Total Time: 45 min(s) Servings: 6

A healthy and heart healthy meal, this lentil soup recipe only requires 4 ingredients and is very simple to make.

Ingredients

2 cups lentils, picked and rinsed

1 cup finely minced ham (best minced in a food processor)

8 cups chicken or vegetable broth

1 teaspoon cumin

Instructions

Bring the lentils, ham, broth, and cumin to a boil.

Reduce the heat to low and cover.

Cook the soup on a low simmer for 40-45 minutes, occasionally stirring to make sure the lentils do not stick to the bottom of the pan.

The soup is ready when the lentils are soft and tender. Serve immediately.

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Oxtail Soup Recipe Biography

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A New Twist on An Old Soup

It all began when Christine, who is Jamaican-American, told me she was planning to make oxtail soup. I casually mentioned that my mother, who kept a kosher home, also made the soup. “But oxtail isn’t Kosher!” Christine responded, her voice rising as if to underscore the seriousness of her charge. Christine worked for many Jewish people and knew the hindquarters of an animal weren’t kosher. Period. End of story.

So is oxtail kosher?

The controversy revolves around the sciatic nerve which runs up the tail of a cow (actual oxen aren’t used anymore). A highly skilled shochet (ritual slaughterer) must totally remove the sciatic nerve and all its adjoining blood vessels -- a complex, labor intensive procedure -- for oxtail to be kosher. Some rabbis say the procedure is too intricate to be 100% reliable, and deem oxtail nonkosher.

But in the 1950’s, my mother bought oxtail at a kosher butcher in the Bronx. The boney joints weren’t always in the shop -- the cow has only one tail. When it was available, my mother, who wasn’t easy to please, would come home excited, and proudly announce: “The butcher had oxtail!”

As best I remember, she made soup with onions, celery, carrots, turnips, bay leaves and barley.

Christine made her soup with onions, tomatoes, garlic, allspice, a hot green pepper, white beans, and beef stock.

What’s going on here? Two such different soups with the same name?

Online, I discovered a dish called oxtail soup -- slow cooking, and prized for its rich flavor -- was found all over the world (e.g. China, Eastern Europe, Mexico, Zimbabwe). Its components -- oxtail, spices, vegetables, and beans or a grain -- were universal. But wherever it was found, some of the soup’s ingredients were indigenous to the locale.

My mother, who was from Poland, used barley, an integral part of Eastern European soups.

Christine made her soup with allspice, a berry grown in Jamaica.

It was more than a trip down memory lane, I was intrigued by the ubiquitous soup. I wondered: Could I make the soup with kosher oxtail? Could I stay true the soup’s character, yet tweak it to suit my taste?

The challenge was to find kosher oxtail.

My son and daughter-in-law picked up the gauntlet and went to Borough Park, a neighborhood in Brooklyn with an abundance of kosher butchers. They were turned away by several, who told them -- in no uncertain terms -- oxtail wasn’t kosher. But they persisted, and found a kosher butcher on the main shopping avenue who, unfazed by their request, went to the freezer and returned with oxtail.

Assembling the vegetables had its problems, too. I put turnips in the mix as a nod to my mother’s soup. But the once popular vegetable isn’t used much any more, so three local supermarkets had to be canvassed before it could be secured.

Finding an ingredient indigenous to my environs was the easy part. I live next door to a part of Manhattan -- sometimes called Curry Hill -- where kosher vegetarian Indian restaurants line the streets, and pungent aromas stream out of spice shops. The Indian spices I chose, while not homegrown, were certainly close to home.

Finally, to give the soup a more contemporary Jewish sensibility, I chose Israeli couscous -- pearl sized granules of semolina wheat -- for the grain. Of the dozens of recipes I found online, I didn’t see any with Israeli couscous, so the soup may have had a personal touch, after all.

Here’s how it came together.

Ingredients:

Oxtail: 2 1/2 pounds oxtail joints, cut in 2 inch pieces, fat trimmed

Spices:

1 teaspoon powdered garlic,

2 teaspoons powdered coriander,

1 teaspoon ground cumin,

1 teaspoon powdered ginger,

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon,

1/4 teaspoon powdered cloves, and

1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes, mixed in a bowl

Vegetables:

Chunks of:

1 medium onion,

1 carrot,

1 medium green bell pepper, and

2 small white turnips,

1 14 ounce can diced tomatoes (with juice)

1/2 cup Israeli couscous

Preparation:

The oxtail joints were washed and put in a heavy pot. Diced tomatoes (with juice), 4 cups of water, and the spice mix were added, stirred, and brought to a boil. The heat was reduced, and the ingredients simmered for 2 hours. More water was added.

The fat was skimmed, the vegetables added, and the ingredients simmered for an additional 1 1/2 hours.

The soup was cooled and refrigerated overnight.

The next day, more fat was skimmed, Israeli couscous added, and the ingredients reheated.

I approached the soup bowl with trepidation. Would I take a spoonful and think: “Is that all there is?” But no. I found the soup hardy and satisfying; the meat was juicy and fall-off-the-bone tender; the Israeli couscous was melt-in-your-mouth creamy.

But the turnips stole the show: drops of soup slipped between the the vegetable’s smooth layers and added an unexpected burst of spiciness to its silky texture.

I included turnips as a gesture, but the vegetable ultimately became an homage to my mother’s soup.

Today, oxtail soup is made by home cooks from the Caribbean, it’s not usual fare on the American table. The soup requires time and patience to prepare, and oxtail, kosher, or not, isn’t readily available. Still, it takes only one taste to understand why oxtail soup is enjoyed by folks all over the world.

Other foods thought to be nonkosher may also be kosher. An article in the Forward (July 28, 2010), reported fried locusts were served at a $100 a plate kosher dinner in Jerusalem. While oxtail may have landed in my soup bowl, I’ll have to think long and hard before locusts -- fried, or otherwise -- jump onto my dinner plate.

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