Question:
Does this sound ok to have occassionally?
I found a recipe for a chilled strawberry soup. My hubby and I went on a cruise a couple years back, and I had this soup and LOVED it. I looked for the recipe for awhile, could never find it, and NOW I find it. Figures, huh? Anyway, the ingredients are as follows-let me know if this is something I can have. 2 cups frozen strawberries, 2 cups milk, 1 cup heavy cream, 1/2 cup sour cream, 2 tbs sugar (or to taste.) I know the strawberries and milk are fine...and I can sub fat free or reduced fat sour cream for the regular and Splenda for the sugar. But what about the heavy cream? Is there something less fattening I can use in place of it that you know of? I know this isn't an everyday soup, but since I've been dying for it, do you think I can have it? — jenn_jenn (posted on November 9, 2003)
November 9, 2003
Jennifer,
This is my advice.
Use your Honeymoon period. Eat right learn how to eat. you will regret it
if you don't. Once you get those skills down then you will be able to add
goodies like that in. You are only a few weeks out. you don't want to start
out eating goodies like that. its just friendly advice. the strawberries
and milk may make you dump. you may have trouble with the seeds. I throw
them up if I eat strawberries. Love,
Nicole
— nicole79
November 9, 2003
Hi Jennifer: Nicole is right, now is not a great time to be eating things
you probably shouldn't. On the other hand, if it's really something you're
dying to have, maybe not eating it will be detrimental too. I guess you
have to weigh it out. Does the desire to have it cause you to eat other
things you also shouldn't have to make you feel better? I know sometimes I
eat things I know I definitely shouldn't just to get rid of the desire and
move on. So like I said, think about it and do what you think will work
out best for you. I do agree that it might be something that could make
you dump. So only have a little bit and see if that's what you decide. I
never had a problem with milk until after surgery. Now I think it's kind
of resolved itself and milk is ok again, but I've lost the taste for it.
Good luck. S
— sherry hedgecock
November 9, 2003
Please follow the great advice that Sherry and Nicole have given you.
Remember that your surgery merely provided you with a tool to help you in
dealing with your own food demons; the honeymoon period is the best time to
try to break free of the desire (or need) to use food for pleasure or to
satisfy varying emotional needs. After all, at about 6 months, when you
start to feel hunger again, and you realize that you can tolerate eating
more, you will have to deal with these same issues again--- so why not get
a head start on it today and rework your relationship with food? Good
luck.
— SteveColarossi
November 9, 2003
I've had luck with using fat free half and half. It is creamy (not as good
as heavy whipping creme, but as good as "real" half-and-half) and
might give you the consistency you need. Splenda would probably work well.
I really hate fat free sour cream - although find light to be very good..
OK correction, that was my pre op opinion.... now both sound icky to me,
but I'm having issues, LOL!!. The soup sounds good, but also seems a
little rough on the stomach - with the strawberries and all. I am 7 weeks
post op and can occasionally stomach things like melon that I chewed really
well, but other fruits are kind of hard to take. Take is slowly... the
soup might have been great pre-op but hard to take now. If it doesn't work
now, try it a few months later. Sounds like a good recipe with good
modifications to make it light.
— w8free
November 9, 2003
I would not touch it, personally., But if you must, it's the strawberries
& milk that are the enemy, not the sour cream & cream! You are now
malabsorbing fats, to a degree, you WILL absorb every sugar in the milk.
Can you maybe do something with varying amts of cream, sour cream, the
naked berries (not frozen, sweetened) and splenda? Leave out the moo? And
like the others, I'd say wait til you hit a major goal to do something like
this. I like berries, like the cream.......... but I just wouldn't do it.
— vitalady
November 9, 2003
I was going to say, use Splenda in it and GO FOR IT! However these other
people are right... USE YOUR HONEYMOON PERIOD WISELY. I sure wish I had.
Perhaps then I would have made it to goal. :( But if you must have it, why
not half or quarter the batch so you have just a taste without eating much
of it? Don't waste the first six months. You may be sorry. I am.
— Danmark
November 9, 2003
Sometimes you just have to have a taste of something in particular to
satisfy a craving or you will eat all kinds of other stuff looking for
relief LOL. Not really funny but true none the less. Carnation evaporated
milk or Carnation evaporated skim milk might work as a replacement for the
heavy cream. You could try it. Make sure the berries are not already
sweetened with sugar. I think this soup may be ok for once in a while but
I wouldn't make a habit of it. Don't be surprised if you dump or this soup
makes you sick, so many things change when you're postop. Is this soup
eaten warm or cold? Just curious since I've never heard of Strawberry soup
:)
— mary ann T.
November 9, 2003
MaryAnn... it's a cold soup. I had it once and although it was'nt bad I
did'nt really care for it.
— Danmark
November 9, 2003
Do you thnk you could get satisfaction from a strawberry smoothie or melted
strawberry ice cream? I had this soup on a cruise too, it was tasty- but it
should not be a meal..and it will make a whole pot..thats alot of
strawberry soup :)
— ~~Stacie~~
November 9, 2003
How much of it would you be having? Like 1/4 a cup? It is a liquid and
seems very highly caloric. If you can control the amount you eat, then its
fine. I know I can't. I'd suck down the whole thing, which is why I stay
away from problem foods right now.
— mrsmyranow
November 9, 2003
Why not experiment a little? Try using plain low fat yogurt unstead of the
sour cream and heavy cream, add the strawberries and Splenda?(Maybe add a
little whipped topping in, too) It may not be as rich and thick, but the
flavor should still be there, and it might actually be GOOD for you! I did
this same thing with a recipe I had for a cold cucumber-dill soup and it
worked well. (P.S. I've had cold strawberry soup before and it is really
good. I have a recipe somewhere for a cold pech soup with raspberry puree
that was also very good, and very pretty with the raspberry puree swirled
in.) Personally, I dump on high fat stuff, and I bet I would dump on
something with heavy cream in it.
— koogy
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