Soup is My Big Thing - My entry to Vdux's Haiku Contest #3

Soup is my big thing
my specialty for decades
always made with love

Cori MacNaughton

This is SO TRUE! As anyone who has known me for any length of time can attest. I could live on soup, make it all the time, and bring it as a hostess gift on a regular basis. I typically make a huge pot and freeze it into individual portions.

At any given time, we usually have at least two or three, if not more, different kinds of soup readily available in our freezer.

I remember as a teen reading an article where study participants were divided into three groups. This was primarily a weight loss study.

The first group had a specified menu, meat and two vegetables, served on a plate.
The second group ate precisely the same foods, in the same amounts, but instead of being served on a plate, they were made into soup.
The third group was told to eat sensibly without being given a specific diet.

Predictably, the first group, with their calorie controlled portions, lost some weight.
The second group, with the same foods and portions made into soup, lost almost twice the amount of weight as the first group.
The third group, with no specified diet, remained about the same weight.

I was surprised at the time that the soup group lost so much more weight, but it makes sense, as the additional water in the soup not only helps with digestion, but with carrying waste from the body once digestion is completed.

That is when I started eating more soups, learning to make many soups, and making soup a regular part of my diet, which it is to this day.

Pictured above is my latest soup, also made with turkey bone broth, that we're just about to finish off. It has been really, really good.;-)

Want some soup? ;-)

Thanks to @Vdux for continuing his haiku contests. This was fun.

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The photo above is of our Christmas turkey, a few years back, and I can guarantee without hesitation that, once it was carved and the meat removed, that made for some fine bone broth, as a base for later soups. I probably took that photo with my Canon SX 30 iS camera.

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