Recipe for cabbage soup diet

recipe for cabbage soup diet

Start cooking our easy recipe for the cabbage soup diet. This recipe of cabbage soup is delicious when you use only organic vegetables.

Although personally I have had much more success with the Japanese Banana diet, I am convinced that there is an ideal diet out there for each person.

So for those wanting to try the cabbage soup diet, read below how the diet works and how you can make a not too fat cabbage soup.

What is the cabbage soup diet?

The cabbage soup diet is mainly a one week effort to change your eating habits without having to starve yourself. The diet goes as follows from day 1 till day 7:

Eat all the fruit and cabbage soup you want. Strangely but true: the cabbage diet forbids you to eat bananas…(see day 4)
Eat all the vegetables and cabbage soup you want. Try not to eat beans nor peas but stick to green leaf vegetables. Cooked or raw doesn’t matter
and you can add a big baked potato to your meal!
Combine day 1 and 2 but without the baked potato treat.
Go bananas! Eat at least 8 bananas and drink as much skimmed milk or cabbage soup as you feel like.
10 to 20 ounces (300 to 600grams) of beef or skinless chicken, at least 6 fresh tomatoes, 2 liters of water (4 pints) and all the cabbage soup you want (that is if you still feel like eating anything after 4 normal servings of meat…)
Eat as much beef, green leaf vegetables and cabbage soup as you want.
Try brown rice, vegetables and fresh fruit juices. Of course keep on drinking your cabbage soup.

After 1 week of the cabbage diet, people do loose weight.

On top of that this change in eating habits will open your taste-buts for other food than fastfood. You will discover the taste of brown rice, fresh fruit juices and healthy green leaf vegetables.

Make sure you write down a list of all the flavours you loved during the cabbage diet and base your new diet on those.

Simple recipe for cabbage soup diet

Cabbage soup ingredients

1 litre hot (boiling) water
olive oil
1 organic head cabbage
2 pounds (1 kg) fresh organic tomatoes
3 big organic onions
1 bunch organic celery
4 stems of organic leek
1 green organic pepper
1 red organic pepper
4 cloves garlic, peel removed
2 cubes of organic low fat vegetable broth
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon curry powder
salt and pepper to taste curry powder and your favourite spices

Cabbage soup preparation

Slice the leek in rings and cut the onion and celery in cubes.
Put a little olive oil in a non stick pot and saute the onions, celery and leek on a low fire. Stir in the cayenne pepper and curry powder after 5 minutes and let simmer for 5 minutes more.
Meanwhile start slicing the rest of the vegetables - except the garlic - in strips and add after the onions and leek are sauteed.
Dice the tomatoes.
Add tomatoes, the still intact garlic cloves, water and stock cubes and bring to a boil.
Cover the pot and simmer until the cabbage soup is ready (1 to 2 hours, depends on your cabbage, on your cutting and on how hard or how soft you want your cabbage to be).
Taste and add salt or pepper if needed. Add skimmed milk if you find your cabbage soup too spicy, but next time just add less cayenne and curry powder!