Souping by Alison Velazquez

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I actually started doing the 21 Day Fix back in December and I’ve been cooking separately for myself from the rest of my family. I wanted to look at recipe books and picked out Souping by Alison Velazquez (for me) and The No Time To Cook! Book by Elena Rosemond-Hoerr (for my family.)

A full-color cookbook with more than 80 healthy hot and cold soup recipes and cleanses for losing weight, detoxification, and revitalized health.

Souping is the new juicing! Packed with more than 80 delicious and incredibly healthy recipes that can be eaten on the go, Souping is the first-ever cookbook of its kind to cover this trend. Step-by-step instructions for making and storing each savory, sweet, filling, energizing, or calming soup make souping easy, and nutritional breakdowns and explanations of the health benefits of key ingredients allow you to track your progress. Both time- and goal-based plans ranging from one to seven days outline day-by-day menus, never offering the same meal twice.

Whether you want to lose weight, boost your immunity, or improve your overall health, Souping can help you cleanse smarter.

Souping includes over 80 nutrition-packed soups made by combining everyday ingredients in your blender to create fresh, delicious soups. The soups can be used as part of a regular diet but they are meant to be used as part of a souping cleanse program.

I was looking for new recipes to shake things up a bit with the 21 day fix, specifically when I feel like I need a lighter eating day while still packing in nutrition.

The book starts off with a section that explains what Souping is, explains the differences between Souping and Juicing, the health benefits of Souping, the essential ingredients you will want to have on-hand and the tools and equipment you will need to make your soups.

Souping, like all DK books, is filled with beautiful full-page colour photographs. It also includes easy to follow recipes including quantity & serving sizes and maximum storage times as well as nutritional information broken down by serving for each recipe so it’s easy to determine which recipes will suit my needs and give me the most bang for my buck.

The 10 different Cleanses included in Souping are:

Metabolism Boost (3-Day Cleanse)
Energize (3-Day Cleanse)
Weight Loss (5-Day Cleanse)
Hydrate (2-Day Cleanse)
Alkalize (3-Day Cleanse)
Beauty Reboot (3-Day Cleanse)
Detoxify (5-Day Cleanse)
Immune Boost (3-Day Cleanse)
Digestive Health (5-Day Cleanse)
Anti-Inflammatory (3-Day Cleanse)

Each cleanse is explained clearly and broken down step-by-step with a timeline of tasks to complete including soups to prepare and portion out in advance. Also included is a shopping list with all the ingredients needed to prepare your soups.

It’s certainly an interesting eating plan, and while I am not sure I would be able to get through even 3 days of just soup, I am certainly interested in trying out many of the soups – especially the fruit based ones like Mango Soup with Lime, and Cantaloupe Jalapeno Soup.

Elizabeth Lampman

Elizabeth Lampman is a coffee-fuelled Mom of 2 girls and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. She enjoys travelling, developing easy recipes, crafting, taking on diy projects, travelling and saving money!