Refurbished Soup du Jour

Sadly, I've learned more about diabetes since posting about my soup, so I had to remove excess protein and fat from it.  I also changed what I put into it.

The new information about diabetes is that it is a condition in which amino and fatty acids can accumulate in liver and muscle cells, shutting down insulin receptors until they are metabolized.  I've verified this in personal tests with fasting and seeing how quickly my blood sugar would go down following a meal after a fast.

In a sense it's a more basic soup, because I found the extras that I had been putting in pushed up my blood sugars.

  • organic vegetable broth from whole foods
  • organic onion (chopped and frozen) 
  • organic beans (pinto, navy) from a can (I open a can and keep it in a jar in the refrigerator)
  • organic frozen chopped blue curled kale (you can substitute frozen chopped spinach)
  • organic frozen peas and carrots
  • organic frozen mixed mushrooms
  • small yellow (Yukon Gold) potatoes (organic where possible) or small red potatoes can be substituted
  • organic frozen chopped mixed bell peppers
  • organic Bulgar (cracked Durham wheat)
  • organic strained tomatoes (from Italy) or a bit of tomato paste
  • Real Salt (mined in Utah) or a pink salt
  • organic Turmeric
  • organic chili powder

Depending on the size of saucepan you use, this is an approximation of how much of everything I put into it.  I don't measure anything myself, I just use a "handful" of this and that.

  • 1 cup vegetable broth added to saucepan
  • turn on the heat
  • add half cup frozen onion 
  • add half a cup of Kale or Spinach 
  • add quarter cup peas and carrots
  • add quarter cup chopped bell peppers
  • add a handful of frozen mushrooms
  • add one eighth cup Bulgur 
  • peel and chop the potato and add it to the soup
  • add a few tablespoons of beans from the jar kept in the fridge 
  • add salt (I add two grams, some people (such as my wife, Mary) think that is too much in which case I let her add salt to hers
  • add three dashes of Turmeric and one dash of chili powder
  • bring to boil and allow to simmer for 15 minutes
  • add a quarter cup strained tomatoes (or tomato half teaspoon paste) mix in and turn off fire


I get all my organic foods at Whole Foods because they have the best selection of organic food that is not doctored.   I was at the beach once, and the vegetable broth had fruit juice added and a few other things.  Why?




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