Is soup a substantial food? I dont think we have any dietition unicyclist but i am sure someone will know.
I eat more than my fair share of soup, and pasta, it is easy to cook and you can dip practically anything not quite as runny as soup into it. Am i being un-healthy?
soup can be Hearty! like say minastroni, or one can have a nice light tomato or broccolli soup. mmmm soup.
yeah i think its healthy, i had home made butter-nut squash soup today:D its deffinetly healthy and i love it:D it is substantial, it gives me enough energy, so it must be good
You do not need to justify your food choices to anyone but yourself. The people accusing you of not eating healthy are probably just out to get you.
I love soups, but the canned sorts tend to be very very high in salt.
yay for soup!
Yeah i realise that, i was just wondering if it is un-healthy.
i just loves me soups.
Jjuggle canned soup is brilliant, there is some salt reduced ones on the local supermarket shelves.
i hate soup or a meal, cus i feel like im getting ripped off, its more of a thick drink to me, but for a snack its good
Reduced salt soup is the work of evil beings. It does not taste good. I don’t have high blood pressure or hypertension or other health issues that require a low salt diet. In fact, physiology is such that I require more salt to maintain an active lifestyle. I need to consume extra salt when I exercise otherwise I experience a condition that feels similar to bonking. Even on just a 20 mile Coker ride I need to take salt tablets to keep my electrolyte levels up even on a cool day. Without the extra salt I am worthless by the end of the ride.
Why is the world out to force me to consume less salt? Do they not want me to maintain an active lifestyle?
I have a similar problem. My heart condition requires that I take a medication which lowers my blood pressure and pulse rate. My resting heart rate is in the low 40’s. Without lots of gatorade or salt before a ride, I can feel very faint. The cardiologist said “salt is your friend!” Salt tablets? I should look into that.
I LOVE soup. I like most, although I generally avoid any fishy ones. What about Ramen Noodles? $1.50 for 12 packages, can’t beat that! Personally, I love it - cheap, easy to make, delicious, easy to clean up.
Check a local store that caters to triathletes. They will probably carry electrolyte tables (salt tablets). I use Lava Salts, but there are others. Very handy. I take 1 or 2 about every 45 minutes during a vigorous ride. If it is hot out I take more.
Salt is your friend.
Soup is your friend.
The CSPI can eat my salt encrusted shorts. They are trying to kill me. It is obvious that no body at the CSPI does vigorous exercise. How can they with the diet they eat?
Thanks for the info!
How do they taste? Are they salty? I’ve found that you can make almost anything taste better by salting it. Haha!
I’d say that soup is a liquid cause the broth is liquid and the vegetables or meat is food, and since there’s usually more broth than soup, I’d say it’s a liquid…kinda.
Don’t get me started about CSPI. They played a BIG part in screwing up people’s health for the last two decades with their campaign against saturated fat in the mid-80s. Guess what they got the saturated fat got replaced with? Trans fat. Here’s what the Weston A. Price Foundation has to say about them.
Soup can be incredibly healthy if made properly. Some cultures have proverbs along the lines of “good broth can resurrect the dead” (can’t remember the exact reference). If you roast a whole chicken, after you are done with it, throw the bones in a pot of water and simmer for hours and hours to make a nice bone broth. People should have broth every day. I don’t know if the supermarket soups are made that way. I suspect that they cut a lot of corners with artificial flavors and MSG instead of making a traditional bone broth as the basis for their soups.
Edit: almost forgot – soup is a GREAT way to eat your vegetables. I don’t really like vegetables, but if I put them in a soup, I can eat a lot of them.
They don’t taste salty at all. They don’t taste of anything. The electrolytes are inside a gel capsule like a pill.
You need to get you some Pho. Hot, hearty, meaty, salty, filling, and CHEAP.
Mmmm, Pho.
Soup is great. And it’s a healthy food. I don’t know about canned ones, though. Make your own. Just throw lots of vegetables and potatoes into a pot of boling water, some pepper and salt, wait 15 minutes and you’re good to go!
Experiment with what vegetables and how much of them you put in.
Bones! Bones! You need bones! 
Adds flavor and collagen and minerals and calcium and other stuff I can’t remember. Make a bone broth first. Then do what you said. Can’t be beat. And you won’t get that level of goodness from a can.
Soup is good food.
But it is not bacon.
Soup is the ingredients. Good ingredients make good food.
Then again, do you mean broth, pottage, stew…
velouté, bortch, harira …
edit: oops forgot “garbure”
consomme?