Cabbage soup recipe: how to lose weight in just 7 days
Have you been struggling with weight problems for a while? If so, you can try the cabbage soup diet. It’s the latest fad diet and it promises to help you lose 10 pounds in just 7 days. And the best thing about this diet is that you won’t have to starve yourself.
Incredible but true! For seven days you will need cabbage soup along with some stipulated foods. And therefore the knowledge about cabbage soup recipe is helpful when you want to follow this diet plan. Before we proceed with this, let’s take a look at the diet plan.
The 7 day diet chart
• Day 1 – Soup and many fruits await banana. You can drink water, cranberry juice, and unsweetened tea. Start with a simple recipe on the first day.
• Day 2 – Soup and lots of green leafy vegetables. You can cook your vegetables or eat them raw. You can opt for a soup recipe that includes a lot of vegetables. For dinner you can have a baked potato with butter.
• Day 3 – The soup, fruits and vegetables. Stay away from plantains and baked potatoes. You can repeat the recipe from the day before if you want.
• Day 4 – Cabbage soup with banana and skimmed milk. You can have as much skimmed milk as you want and more up to 8 ripe bananas.
• Day 5 – You can eat tomatoes and beef. You can have 20 ounces of beef and about six ripe tomatoes. If you don’t like beef, you can go for chicken, but don’t have both. You can opt for a recipe that includes tomato and beef. Have the soup at least once. Drink 8 glasses of water.
• Day 6 – Eat beef and vegetables with at least one serving of the soup. Eat 3 beef steaks if you want. Try a recipe with lots of vegetables. Stay away from the potato.
• Day 7: Eat soup, vegetables, brown rice, and unsweetened fresh fruit juice.
The recipe
For the ideal cabbage soup recipe you will need:
• 6 green onions
• 3 carrots
• 2 green peppers
• 2 cans of tomato
• 1 can of mushrooms
• A bunch of celery
• Half a head of cabbage
• 1 packet Lipton soup mix
• Pepper, parsley, salt, garlic powder and curry to season
Now the recipe.
• Slice onions and use cooking spray to sauté them in a pot.
• Cut the stem of the green pepper and then cut it in half. Remove the membrane and seeds. Chop up bite-sized pieces and add to pot.
• Remove the leaves from the cabbage, dice it and add it to the pot.
• Cut the carrots and celery into small pieces and add to the pot
• Cut the mushrooms into thick slices and add them.
• Add tomatoes.
• Add garlic powder if you like.
• Add 12 cups of water; cover the pot and let the soup cook for a couple of hours.
This is the ideal recipe for your cabbage soup diet.