Soup, soup and more soup

Eating soup is a simple and delicious way to get your daily veggies into your diet. Although you'll want to limit cream-based soups that are high in calories, you can thicken your soups by blending some of the soup liquid and vegetables in a food processor or high-powered blender. Also, you can blend raw cashews or cashew butter to get a creamy texture.

Making homemade soups will allow you to keep the sodium content low and the nutritional value high. (Even some prepared 'reduced sodium' soups have half or more of your day's worth of sodium per serving.)  You can make a big batch of soup because it will keep in the refrigerator for several days - and most soups even freeze well.

You'll find several of Dr. Fuhrman's soups on my blog (under soup, healthy options and vegetarian tabs). His recipes are chock-full of nutrient-dense vegetables, legumes and other fiber filled ingredients.