Liquids...

So, because I am on liquids, I have been doing some shakes, malts, and stuff that I have been allowing myself to indulge in since I cannot CHEW....

any good healthy ideas for liquids? It has been so long since I have had to do a liquid diet, that I am fresh out of ideas.

I love my natural protein soups...makes you feel like you are not on a chocolate milkshake and pudding diet! I can't do all that sweet stuff. (even though is fake sweet)  I will start with a whole chicken and carrots, onions, and celery for a nice stock or base soup.... They I make some lentils or split peas or multi-beans...puree and add the chcicken stock... You can add some of the chicken pureed (Boiled chicken is very moist) Or ham pureed to the split peas and stock!  Or a bacon and cheese...or cajun sausage and beans...Chickpeas and garlic...It's endless!!!!! You could make a chili flavor beans and sausage or ground turkey...Just puree and make it very liquidy! Hope that helps! Anita 

Anita these all sound so yummy, I want to go on liquids just so I can eat them!!  :o) Do you boil the whole chicken, etc.  to make the stock, then cook the lentils, etc in that stock or cook the lentils in something else then add the stock to them once they are cooked? How do you do the bacon and cheese? I love making soups and want to add all these recipes to my collection. Thanks, Ruth PS.  Any idea on the amount of protein/carbs/calories, etc?

Basic Chicken stock ( I forgot onion and garlic too) You can add your salt and pepper to taste...and parsley or other veggies....The main ingredients for stock is the 1 raw cleaned chicken, carrots, celery and onion and about 8-10 C of water! I make a huge pot everytime!  You can do this with a turkey carcass too (Like after you've made a nice roast turkey you can use the bones and whatever meat is left on it!  Turkey has more iron and a richer flavor!  Anytime I make a whole roasted chicken, whatever is left after dinner goes directly in a pot of boiling water! I waste nothing! LOL (Lemon chicken does not make a yummy soup in my opinion, though) Nice little trick:  after it cools...I put it in the refrigerator and the fat hardens and you just take every drop of fat off in solid form and discard!  Easy to get it completely fat free! With the fat gone 1 Cup of stock  Calories 20 Protein 4 Carbs 2 I take about 4 C of broth (none of the veggies or chicken and seperate it  for soups and freeze til I need it...I will boil fast cooking beans like lentils (20 minutes in the broth) and add whatever flavors I want the soup to be. Slower cooking beans I boil first in water to soften Then add to stock. Whatever I add I put the full calories on paper and divide the entire recipe by 4-6 servings and that's how I get my calories per soup.(once you add all this stuff the 4 servings turn to 6 servings and you divide accordingly.  Sometimes I just make one large pot and seperate into two or three pots and make soups to freeze...I get lentils going in one with a lot of the chicken and veggies in a pot....chickpeas(garbonzo beans)with the meat and some of the veggies in another and the third pot I might do split peas and ham and carrots.... It's so endless!!!! The stock itself is fat free if you chill the soup and get the solid fat off the top. With all the meat and veggies and some broth I use for just plain good old fashioned chicken soup with rice or orzo or nothing but the chicken and veggies and a little parmesan or romano cheese! Yum... All these recipes are basically low fat! Add the meat and you add the fat and calories, but you also add the protein numbers too!  Add Rice or noodles you add carbs...You can adjust to your own taste and preferences... Enjoy!

Thanks so much Anita I've been stuck on variations of cabbage & bacon soup lately sometimes with borlotti beans, but although low in fat and calories, not too good on protein.  So I'm looking forward to trying out these new ideas. I always boil my chicken & turkey carcasses as they are so useful aren't they.  I used to like making risottos with the stock - haven't done that so much since wls though! I love making fresh food and knowing exactly what it is I'm eating. Thanks again!!

I have been saying for weeks I want to make some soup. This makes me want it now. I hate that I can't buy soup that doesn't contain preservatives I am allergic too...so maybe with our so called "low front" coming in I can cook soup. Our low front is in the 60's overnight and 80's during the day. It's hysterical living in Fl. you get an alert over NOAA radio when the wind blows, nevertheless I want soup!

I make soups all the time!!! We eat some kinda bean soup in my chicken stock at least once a week...I make my soups more like stews with all the stuff I throw in them...but I love flavors and I try all kinds of stuff...I was blessed with a good idea of what flavors and ingredients compliment each other ...I think that's the Italian in me!  My mom and her mom both amazing cooks! OH speaking about Italian....I forgot my secret ingredient which I will share with my buddies!!  Add a cut up fresh tomato (any kind) for richness!  It really makes the stock nice! I feel ADD sometimes! I am not though...maybe! LOL Anita

I am going to make this for sure, so glad your posted this.,..btw, you never mentioned you were a fellow Italian something for me to ponder.... 

With all my mile long emails I never told you that?  LMAO!  Mom was born and raised in Sicily! As was her mom and dad. My dad's mom and her family also also Sicilian raised and his father's parents came from Budapest Hungary...I'm only a second generation American... I don't even speak Italian...Mom wanted us to speak English...I speak food! LOL I think I got the Hungarian genes...You know that tree stumpish stocky looking legs...Thunder thighs!  Yep....That's me!  Mom has chicken legs...This is really sounding more and more like soup!  Stocky legs...and chicken legs!  OH BROTHER!  I need sleep! LOL Hugs