The Original Cabbage Soup Diet

Spyder-man's Note:

I got this out of the National Enquirer in 1995-1996 when the soup diet originally came out. I don't remember the rules of the diet other than you could eat as much of this as you wanted.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 10 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 20

• 1 head cabbage, chopped
• 6 onions, sliced or chopped
• 2 green bell peppers, chopped
• 1 bunch celery, chopped
• 1 bunch shallots or 1 bunch green onion, sliced
• 2 chicken bouillon cubes
• 1 (1 1/4 ounce) envelope onion soup
• 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar (optional)
• 48 ounces V8 vegetable juice
• 2 (28 ounce) cans chopped tomatoes
• 1 lemon, juice of
• pepper
• 6 garlic cloves, crushed

Directions:

1. Place all in large stock pot and bring to a boil.
2. Simmer for 1 hour.
3. Refrigerate all leftovers.

Reviews

[monday night gal]

Even my 2 yr old loves it! Like other reviewers, I added about 3 lbs carrots, which I actually grated to enhance the tomato flavor. Also, this may sound odd, but I added 1 teaspoon of nutmeg and it was delicious! Several tomato based soups my family enjoys call for nutmeg, and I wasn't disappointed when I added it to this one

[Spice Guru]

I was skeptical, but this really is great! I wanted to add carrots, but stopped myself, thinking there must be a dietary reason for their absence (too much starch and sugar?). I used Spicy V-8 and followed monday night gal's suggestion, adding nutmeg (and ginger and savory). Very tasty "diet medicine"! Thank you for posting the original recipe, Spyder-man.

[Patticake24]

This is the best soup ever! I remember eating it back when I was younger when my mom was trying to lose weight and I thought it was sooo good then! I use hardly any balsamic though as it makes it way too tangy for my taste, but a tablespoon or two gives it a nice flavor. We usually have this soup on hand since the recipe makes so much that we'll freeze a bunch of it. And it freezes very well! Once we run out we'll end up making another batch a week or two later. Thanks for finding this and posting!