Holy crap.

[cyrano]

My lunch soup has 340 calories.
260 of those are from fat.
I think I bought my last Tomato Basil Bisque. sadface.
(Dude! Vegetables! It *must* be good for you, right?)

Comments

[technocowboy.livejournal.com]

Dude. Cream-based soup. CREAM-based soup.

[drivingblind.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

It's a cream soup that has had some vegetables waved at it. :)

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Bah. The importance of "calories from fat" is overhyped - low-fat diets aren't that great for weight loss, and in fact may be harmful. The idea is to not overeat (in terms of total calories), and keep things in balance - so as long as you picked relatively lower-fat foods for the rest of your daily consumption, you'd probably be just fine.

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

This was my first thought as well. "Ha! 340 calories down, in a relatively palatable and nutritious way. 1500ish to go."

[roseneko.livejournal.com]

Also, tomatoes are a fruit, and basil is an herb. :P But the bisque is probably better for you than a lot of other things you could be having.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm. Other things.

[mostuff.livejournal.com]

Just don't eat it for every meal every day...and balance it out with some "real" veggies.

Keep your fat intake to no more than 30% of your daily total calories and you'll be fine.

[satyrlovesong.livejournal.com]

I don't know you well, so if you're vegetarian please take this in the spirit in which it is meant.

I don't like chicken noodle soup much, but I bake a lot of chickens (at 70 cents/lb they are a good bargain) and I need to do something with the leftovers. I make a pretty good soup that's full of garlic and onions, cumin and cilantro, potatoes, cauliflower, carrots, fresh tomatoes, any veggies that might be leftover from other meals and a generous dose of "Dave's Insanity Sauce". Well, and chicken and chicken broth. It's spicy and full flavored, with enough of a solid density to keep you full but it's pretty low fat.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Augh! Animal flesh! In my journal! Now I have to bleach every entry!

But yeah, some weekends I can cook and make stew or chili or whatever. Some weekends it's crazy and I have to kind of make do. The pain in the ass is that I have to be careful how much fat I get, because I have high lipid levels in my blood and high blood pressure. I have to watch calories because I'm verging on obese. I have to be careful of potatoes, corn, corn syrup, sugar, bleached flour, white rice, or anything else that quickly turns to glucose because I'm borderline diabetic. And I have to plan in advance, because there are so many elements I have to watch out for that I can't just grab stuff if I'm in a hurry. I have to watch so many god damn things, it seems, that eating is like a perimeter sweep waist deep in the swamp in the jungles outside of Da Nang. It's a chore, it's a pain in the ass, and there's the constant lurking threat of danger.

There. My food whinge for the day. At least I'm not allergic to gluten or soy or citrus or milk or fish or peanuts or whatever.

[satyrlovesong.livejournal.com]

Ok, now we've established that you're vegetarian but not vegan. Good to have a baseline.

Actually, good to know all of the above. I love to cook, and I love to share food with others. Two of my closest friends (and generally the reasons I'm not an exclusive hermit) are diabetic so I spend a lot of time trying to come up with healthy meals for them. *rueful smile* Neither of them would know what to do in a kitchen, and have no interest in learning at this late date.

I flirt with diabetes myself, and have a strong family history of it. I'm lucky that in general my soft spot is fats, not sugars (oh, the cheeses).

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I am not, in fact, vegetarian. I am attempting to make the shift from the American "The Meat Is The Meal" model to the model where meat is a pleasant little part of the meal. I love beef, I'm trying not to buy pork ever since the Rolling Stone article, I love chickens, I have a mercurial relationship (ha ha ha) with fish, and I love going to La Fondue and eating ostrich and buffalo. (And cream cheese balls.)

mmmmmmmmmfats.