A carton of soup and two slices of bread should not have my daily salt allowance and half of my sugar allowance

[Marue]

I'm a bit in shock, just worked out that by having a soup with bread I've had just over my salt allowance and half of my sugar allowance for the day in one snack!

I know your only supposed to eat half of the carton, but they aren't very big and one carton equals about one bowl.

It was a Thai style soup, it was just OK nothing special!

I, and many people I know, benefitted greatly from cutting out (or down) sugar. I stopped eating sweets, drinking fizzy pop, and putting sugar in my tea. Other than making protein a bit of a priority, I ate whatever I wanted, as much as I wanted. I lost weight, my complexion cleared, my mood became more stable.

I had intended to tackle the my drinking next, but once I stopped having added sugar, I no longer craved alcohol.

I'm definitely in favour of eschewing sugar.

There shouldn't be any problem with sugar if you can burn it off. It would have been the same had you ditched any other calorific food.

For tooth health it is slightly different but acid is just as bad, and nobody ever suggests citrus is poison.

No, it wouldn't have been the same.

Many people who cut out sugar lose weight without any other effort. They don't have to count calories or anything.

This isn't true of everyone... Some people will compensate by eating more of other things. But the point is that large doses of sugar set many people off on a blood-sugar roller coaster where they feel like rubbish and eat more to try and feel better.

Many people who adopt a low carb or "paleo" diet will eat significantly fewer calories, feel better, and lose weight. (frequently after suffering from withdrawal symptoms.)

I absolutely think that the excessive amount of added sugar in our diets is harmful.

"I've just made a quick tomato soup from 500ml jar of pasta" Yuck! Why on earth would you do that?

A 600 ml carton of soup is not a snack. It's a fourth meal!

Did you mean passata, rather than pasta?

Ha ha yes I did. And it was delicious ;)

A word of advice, stop looking at the bloody stupid labels, you will drive yourself mad and still die eventually!

What's stupid about the labels? They list the ingredients, that's all.
I always read the labels. I like to know what I'm eating. Haven't gone mad yet

Thanks to you and this thread Marue I had pea soup and a slice of bread for lunch.

You made me want soup!!!

Salt and cal content?
Erm. NO idea! I plonked the ingredients in the bread machine and 4hrs later had a lovely loaf of wholemeal. This includes a tsp of sugar with the yeast and a pinch of salt.
Dumped freezer peas in a pan with stock, cooked, added spinach (it was going off!) and mint and then blitzed it.

I actually have a lot of soup here so I'm having some tomorrow and also freezing some.

...I added pre cooked cold quinoa from the fridge to my soup too. I like soup with rice and "stuff" in so it felt like a good idea.

I am lucky. I work from home. This allows me to do things like "make bread" (weigh ingredients and then delegate to a machine) whilst having a cup of tea. Or "make soup" whilst emailing clients.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to offend with my comment that I thought your portion was an "enormous meal" I know that if I tried to eat that quantity that I would be very overfull and uncomfortable. For some reason I find soup filling. Possibly because I eat it slower?

"Skinny" foods are the devil. They lure you in with promises of new jeans and swishy hair (they're synonymous in my head) but then bite you in the bum with their hidden ingredients or lack of flavour or general crapness.

Just wondering what your recipe is for quick tomato soup from passata. I love tomato soup!

I am not marue, but fry some garlic (say 4 cloves per kilo of tomatoes. that might be a bit garlicky though) in olive oil (and onion if you like), add some fresh quartered tomatoes (in the summer or when available, go for tinned otherwise, or I guess passata. i have never used passata though). salt to taste. add a teaspoon of sugar if the tomatoes are tart (I don't usually). cook for say 10-15 mins. Bizz with stick blender. add some fresh herbs (any of rosemary, oregano, basil or nothing).

kids love it. in fact my fussy DD says it's her favourite soup. you can fancy it up by skinning and seeding the tomatoes and then running it through a sieve, but that's more work. you could also fry some carrots and celery (I'd say 1 each per kilo of tomatoes) with the garlic for a different flavour.