Souper Skinny Soups

By Carla L. Henry, Yolanda Fintor, Carla Henry

Mothers have always claimed that soup was great for treating a cold. But most didn't realize that it is also great for treating a growing waistline. Souper Skinny Soups helps readers prescribe a dose of high-flavor but low-calorie medicine in more than 220 recipes for a bowl of good health.

Soup is a filling food that makes eating less feel like eating more. It is also easy to fix without loading in unnecessary fats, cholesterol, and calories. Whether an appetizer or main course, a hearty bowl of soup is a nutritional way to eliminate the yo-yo effects of dieting.

Souper Skinny Soups teaches readers how to create the stocks, creams, and bases for a variety of recipes. Every soup comes with serving guidelines and nutritional information for calorie counters. The book offers many simple recipes as well as some of a more gourmet variety, such as Veal Paprika and Russian Borsch.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882899546
• ISBN13: 9780882899541
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful book full of delicious soups....

This book only has 2 flaws: 1.) No pictures (I'm the type of person to judge food how it looks, and it's kinda trial and error because of this.) I feel even with black and white pictures, you could get an idea on the final product if they had them. 2.) Does no list the sodium values for the various soups. The book does however talk about what you can use to substitute FOR salt, but for a young cook like myself, it's sort of confusing, and more trial and error. Below each recipe you only see how many calories, fat grams and cholesterol values. But anyone who is trying to eat healthy knows, you must also keep track of carbs, fiber, protein, sodium, etc. With some quick math work you can figure this out for yourself and write it in the book by hand (which is what I've done for easy reference, as there is some room to write below these values.) I also wish it listed Chowders in their own category or in the index. This is still a GREAT book for anyone who loves soup and is looking to cut calories from their diet. Just be sure to watch how much sodium actually goes into it. Some of these go past your daily value in one serving if you don't substitute an ingredient!

More inventive soups than one can digest in a lifetime.

I used to think soup was just something that came in a can, but this book changed my mind and lent new a new fervor to my soup-making. There are literally hundreds of soups here, and thousands of possibilities for varying the recipes. Soup is definitely good food, but you're a fool if you don't make it yourself from one of the recipes in this book