Vegetable soup is healthy. It is easy to make your own and control the salt. And there are many reduced salt commercial options. Though salt can increase blood pressure, most people have healthy kidneys and can drink when thirsty – peeing out excess salt.
My urologist, my endocrinologist and my nephrologist disagree with you. And my own empirical evidence as well.
If you leave out the anchovies, parmesan, and Worcestershire, what makes it a Caesar salad?
What is the evidence?
…sorry!
Greetings from a fellow type 2.
I have found a lot of good diabetic recipes on this website. Here is a good one for soup : Cabbage Soup | EverydayDiabeticRecipes.com
This is another good site for diabetics:
Good luck.
First of all, I’m sorry to hear about your diagnosis, and good for you for trying to eat healthier! IANAD, but I think it’s safe to say that making this kind of change in your diet now will have a positive effect on your prognosis and long term quality of life.
If sodium is a big concern for you, then you might want to consider making your own stock for soups. That can be time-consuming, and kind of overwhelming if you’re new to soup-making. You can also do what I usually do, and just use water instead, plus lots of spices. In my experience, you can still get a very flavorful soup without using pre-made stock, you just have to let it cook for a while.
If you’re looking for other ways to get more vegetables and fiber in your diet, try hummus or other bean dips, with carrot or celery sticks. I find this to be a decent replacement for chips or crackers, because it’s crunchy and savory and pretty filling.
Roasting vegetables as a side dish is also pretty easy. Mix them with a little bit of olive oil and some spices, shove them in a hot oven for a while, and eat them when they’re as soft as you like. If you search for recipes, you’ll find more specific instructions about what temperature oven to use and how long to roast them to get a specific result. You can get lots of types of vegetables frozen and keep them on hand for when you don’t have anything fresh.
Canned soups have sugar added it too, homemade veggies soup is better and healthier for you . It taste a hell of a lot better too. Soup is not hard to made and you can use Mrs. Dash instead of salt .
Maybe high blood pressure somehow makes you crave salt?
I know personally that salt raises BP, because i have very low BP and using a reasonable amount of salt in food makes it so i can stand up from sitting on the floor with out playing peek A boo black out.
And when i forget, which is a lot, it’s back to jump and and Hey where did the damned room just go to, and then i remember oh crap, i have not used any salt in the last 2 weeks, yay back to 87/56
I have no idea how much it would take to make it high, probably more than i could stomach
Forgot my soup recipe.
Probably not too many will like it but.
Pack of celery, chopped, leaves and all. I chop the leafy part nice and fine
3 large turnips cubed
5 large parsnips slice
6 carrots sliced
2 large onions sliced
3 toes of garlic, smashed to pulp
1 chicken bullion cube
cover with water, low boil until done enough for you, or toss in a crock pot.
It’s simple, easy, and except for the bullion cube there isnt anything unhealthy in it that i know of.
My doctor claims that only about 20% of high blood pressure is salt related. But he goes on to claim that too much salt is hard on the kidneys and I don’t need anything that is hard on the kidneys. On the other hand too little salt is not good either, especially if you are sweating a lot.
Although vegetable broth is easy to make (just google it to get many recipes), I prefer to make it with a little extra flavor. After we have finished a chicken, I save the carcass and boil it up with cut up carrots, celery, peppercorns, onions, leeks, whatever else happens to look good and we have, for a few hours, then strain the broth (and, incidentally, eat all the veggies, although they have little flavor left) and serve it over rice or noodles. And yes use a bit of salt. Otherwise it is insipid.
Joel Fuhrman’s book End of Diabetes has a lot of diabetic-friendly recipes that are vegetable-based and include soups. I recommend the book - I don’t have diabetes myself, but it runs in my family, so I bought the book and I’ve read it a bunch of times. I use it and its companion book (Eat to Live) to guide a lot of my food choices.
The book is also helpful for diabetic-friendly desserts (the recipes are based on fresh fruit rather than artificial sweeteners). I’ll share a hint I learned from it - you can make tasty sorbet using just frozen berries (I used cherries) and pureeing them with a blender (I use an immersion blender, but anything should work). You can add cocoa powder to the frozen fruit if you want, but it tastes good just with the one ingredient.
Thanks QC, I’ll pick it up. Also to Aspenglow, I tried your minestrone recipe last night and it was really good. I think the meat protein is a good addition for me. I have to get myself into the mindset of taking more time for food prep than I had previously.
Some really good links and recipes in this thread. Thank you all.
Simply reducing the salt in soup can make it not taste as good (salt tastes good at quantities higher than you might want to be ingesting it).
Adding in a bit of lemon juice or vinegar can help a lot in making the soup taste better.
Cilantro works good too