Good Housekeeping The Amazing Soup Diet: Eat all you want and still lose weight!

By Hearst

Eat as much as you want . . . and lose 20 pounds fast! 
Bonus: The meals are hearty, delicious--and ready in 20 minutes!   You won't believe it's a diet! Lose weight while dining deliciously on bowl after bowl of rich, varied, stew--like soups-from sausage- and rice-filled jambalaya to cheese-laced minestrone with pasta and beans. Good Housekeeping makes it so easy: even though each soup tastes totally different from the next, they are all built from the same basic recipe.   Just start with the Hearty Vegetable Soup recipe and add a few ingredients each night to create a wonderful new main course. And to make things even simpler, there's an entire meal plan with an appetizing variety of breakfasts and lunches, along with a full range of dinners. Soup is at the heart of these menus, which feature recipe variations from star chefs, including Emeril Lagasse, Lidia Bastianich, Michael Chiarello, Ming Tsai, Dean Fearing, Madhur Jaffrey, and Don Pintabona. In addition, there's advice on storing the soup and dining out, plus a complete shopping list.  
As always, all these recipes were triple-tested for success in Good Housekeeping's renowned test kitchens.    Soup's on! Here are just a few delicious soups to try:
- Hearty Vegetable-only 45 calories a cup!
- Mexican Chicken
- Southwest Chili
- Greek Fish Stew
- Emeril Lagasse's Creole Super Soup
- Lidia Bastianich's Mussel Super Soup and Lentil--and her Rice Super Soup
- Michael Chiarello's Napa-Style Minestrone Super Soup
- Ming Tsai's Hot-and-Sour Super Soup
- Dean Fearing's Southwestern Super Soup
- Madhur Jaffrey's Far Eastern Super Soup
- Don Pintabona's Italian Super Soup--and his Oriental Super Soup

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hearst
• Release date: Aug 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781618370952

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD

INTRODUCING THE AMAZING SOUP DIET

HEARTY VEGETABLE BASIC SOUP RECIPE

STORING SOUP

SEVEN SIMPLE SOUP VARIATIONS

THE SEVEN-DAY EAT-TO-LOSE MEAL PLAN

STAR CHEF SOUP DIET RECIPES

EMERIL LAGASSE

MICHAEL CHIARELLO

LIDIA BASTIANICH

MING TSAI

DEAN FEARING

MADHUR JAFFREY

DON PINTABONA

SNACKS

MAKE THE DIET WORK FOR YOU

SIMPLE SUBSTITUTIONS

DINE OUT ON THE SOUP DIET

INSPIRING STORIES OF DIET SUCCESS

SHOPPING LIST

FOREWORD

It all began a few years ago with a taste test in the Good Housekeeping Research Institute kitchens. Susan Westmoreland, Good Housekeeping Research Institute’s food director, and Delia Hammock, then its nutritionist, had been working for months to fine-tune our Amazing All-You-Can-Eat Soup Diet, and they’d invited staffers to sample the results.

The seven of us who gathered around the oval table expected something just fine . . . for diet food. But none of us bargained for what we got: bowl after bowl of deliciously rich, stew-like soups—from sausage-and rice-filled jambalaya to cheese-laced minestrone with pasta and beans. Each dish tasted so different from the next, it was hard to believe they were all based on the same easy recipe (you just add a few ingredients each night, and voilà! a new main course). And it was even harder to believe that these hearty meals could help anyone lose weight. They tasted too good. The portions were too big.

Then somebody at the table said, I wish I could go on this diet. Several others seconded the motion. We all looked