Cabbage Soup Diet Review & Recipe| Weight Loss and Fitness Reviews

No one knows where the ubiquitous cabbage soup diet originated. There is no diet book to buy and the whole plan fits on 1 page. Its not a diet to stay on for more than a week; no one could stand it for more than one week I would think. The idea is to make you so bored with your food that you will not overeat- you just won’t be able to face any more cabbage soup!

The Cabbage Soup Diet cabbage soup diet review

Don’t follow this diet for more than one week. You can eat as much cabbage soup as you want on any day.

Day One:
Cabbage soup and all the fruit you want except bananas. Drink water, herbal teas and unsweetened cranberry juice.

Day Two:
Cabbage soup and all the other green leafy vegetables you want plus one large baked potato with a little butter. No fruit is allowed. Drinks as Day 1.

Day Three:
Cabbage soup and all the fruit and vegetables you want except potato and banana. Drinks as Day 1.

Day Four:
Cabbage soup and up to eight bananas. Drink as many glasses of skim milk as you want. Drinks as Day 1.

Day Five:
Up to 20 ounces of beef, skinless chicken or fish with up to 6 raw tomatoes. At least 8 glasses of water and/or herbal teas. Drinks as Day 1.

Day Six:
As much beef or chicken and vegetables other than potato. Have cabbage soup at least once. Drinks as Day 1.

Day Seven:
Cabbage soup brown rice and vegetables except potatoes. Drink unsweetened clear fruit juices, water or herbal teas. Drinks as Day 1.

The Cabbage Soup Recipe

Recipes for the cabbage soup vary, but all are based on cabbage, onions, tinned tomatoes, green peppers, celery, carrots and onion soup mix. Here is one version of the cabbage soup recipe.

The recipe varies but always includes similar ingredients.

3-6 spring onions (scallions)
2 green peppers
2 cans of tomatoes
3 Carrots
1 head of celery
1/2 a cabbage
1 package onion soup mix
1 or 2 cubes of bouillon (optional)
1 48 oz can V8 juice (optional)
water to make fluid up to 12 cups

Directions:

Slice spring onions and place in a large saucepan. Sauté until soft but not browned using cooking spray or water. De-seed the green pepper. Cut cabbage, carrots, and green pepper into bite size pieces and add to pan.

Add spices and flavorings as desired. Add 12 cups of liquid, water and bouillon or 8 cups of water plus the V8. Bring to boil then reduce heat and simmer on a low heat for 2 hours. Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Note: This makes a massive amount of soup. To fit it into my largest pan I had to use less fluid and add it as required when re-heating the soup. I also froze some of it in single serve bags. It froze well and tasted just as good as the fresh soup.

If you can stand it for the week you will lose weight, some of it fat. It isn’t really unhealthy just for a week as you get loads of vegetables and meat is included on days 5 and 6. Rather too much meat in fact, for who could eat 20oz of meat in one day? The diet provides between 800 and 1000 calories per day and promises weight loss of up to 10 lbs ( 4.5 kg) which is too much to be only fat, although the benefit of such a quick weight loss is that it boosts motivation. Losing a lot of weight in a week might give the impetus needed to keep going and finish the job. On the other hand remember what happens when your body senses starvation? It closes down its engines and you burn fat more slowly.

The Cabbage Soup Diet Review