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

[theatricalclown]

Be careful of what you add to this recipe as you may defeat the purpose of it. Carrots have a lot of sugar. 3 pounds of carrots equals the sugar found in a 20 oz can of coke. 2lbs.8oz of carrots equals the amount of sugar in a snickers bar. If you want to add flavour add fresh herbs.

[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

[Bigfoot's wife]

I used a half bag of matchstick carrots instead of the bell peppers (too slimy for my taste when cooked) and I did saute the onions with a tablespoon of chili oil. I initially left out the tomatoes and V8 and ate it that way the first day. The second day I added diced tomatoes and V8 along with lots of cayenne to what was left so I had two different soups from it. I found it pretty tasty--much better than I was expecting. Very fast, easy and healthy and used things I typically have on hand so I anticipate I'll make some smaller batches of it in the future.