It is starting to get cooler here in Colorado and nothing is as nice as a big bowl of soup on those chilly days. This recipe meets all the requirements of your lean and green, but keep in mind that this recipe doesn't require a healthy fat when adding the shredded cheese. If you would like to leave out the cheese and have a lean from the leanest category (such as 99% lean ground turkey, egg beaters, shrimp, fish, etc and not be over your healthy fats requirements), then please do so because this recipe already has 1 1/2 healthy fats from the laughing cow cheese alone. I tried the soup with 2 laughing cow cheese wedges so that it would only be 1 healthy fat, but it really needed 3. I wouldn't omit any laughing cow cheese wedges. On the other hand, whether you do decide to leave out the shredded cheese or not, the soup is still yummy! Not to mention it makes a very generous serving! Enjoy!
Broccoli Cheese Soup
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups cooked broccoli (3 Greens)
3 light laughing cow cheese wedges (any cheese flavor) (1 1/2 Healthy Fats)
1/8 tsp salt (1/2 Condiment)
1/8 tsp pepper (1/4 Condiment)
1 cup chicken broth (1 Condiment)
1/4 cup or 1 oz reduced fat shredded cheddar cheese (1/4 Lean)
Directions:
Combine all of the ingredient in a blender. Blend until well blended. If a chunkier soup is desired, add broccoli last and blend for a few seconds.
1 Serving with 3 Greens, 1/4 Lean (need 3/4 more Lean from the leanest category such as 5.25 oz shrimp, tilapia, 99% ground turkey or 1 1/2 cup egg beaters), 1.5 Condiments and 1.5 Healthy Fats
7 comments:
Depending on how much fat there is in the low fat shredded cheese, you would not be able to use any fat.
If you are using 3-6 grams fat per serving shredded cheese 4 ounces equals 1 lean, not 8 ounces. You would also not be able to add fat as it's a "Lean" lean.
Less than 3 grams fat per serving cheese would be "Leaner" lean so you could have 1 fat serving and 6 ounces of the Leaner cheese.
I fixed the correction. I had put 1 cup or 8 oz of reduced fat cheese so the 1 cup is correct, but it is only 4 oz. As for the healthy fats, Nutrition Support confirmed that you are able to use a healthy fat as a condiment when choosing from the lean category which normally doesn't require a healthy fat. This would consist of whole eggs, 5 oz of beef, pork, dark meat poultry, reduced fat cheese etc. I had gotten Emeril's Cola Pot Roast approved using a 1 tsp of olive oil as a condiment.
Laughing Cow Cheeses are a little different than the other fats because they contain carbs that like your example,the olive oil, do not. Laughing Cow is still confusing even since NS made it legit! :)
Here's what NS has to say:
I hope you are doing well. My name is Meridith, a Registered Dietitian for Nutrition Support. Laughing Cow cheese are allowed on Plan, as follows:
1 wedge of Laughing Cow Cream Cheese as 1 fat serving
1 wedge of the Original Laughing Cow cheese as 1 fat serving
2 wedges of the Laughing Cow Light varieties as 1 fat serving
1 wedge of the Laughing Cow Light (a flavor with 1 g carb/wedge) as 1 condiment
In this case you can't use 2 wedges to represent 1 condiment.
So in this recipe if you want to count the LC cheese as condiments you're at 4 3/4 condiments.
Thanks! So they still represent a condiment even though they are healthy fats, but 1 wedge is 1 condiment. Seems like the best thing to do is to add only 1/4 cup shredded cheese and eat the soup with 5.25 oz of the leanest meat such as shrimp, tilapia, 99% ground beef or turkey, etc so that you can have 1 1/2 Healthy Fats.
That would work and be delicious! :)
I love your recipes!
Thanks so much and for your help!
I made this last night and it was delicious and just what I needed to satisfy that soup craving (not a huge fan of the MF soups). Thank you!
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