Chicken Soup Diet. Review of and information on the Chicken Soup Diet. Chicken Soup Diet Recipe.
Almost every one loves Chicken Soup. It’s been around as long as we have been able to catch chickens and is a good and healthy choice for protein. Like everything that is good, someone had to take advantage of it and turn it into a diet. Technically, it’s an easy diet to follow, but it is extreme in its calorie reduction. Remember there is only one way to truly lose wait and that is to burn more calories than you consume. There are two ways to do that:
1. Eat less calories than you need
2. Burn more calories that you need
The Chicken soup diet falls under the first option.

Drawbacks of the Chicken Soup Diet
The drawbacks are sort of obvious. Although some people may truly love chicken soup, it’s doubtful that they would want to build their entire eating plans on it. The basic version of the diet calls for you to eat a breakfast of your choosing in the morning, and then to eat only chicken soup after noon. If you think you can stomach eating only chicken soup after noon, then this disadvantage can be overcome.
Summary of the Chicken Soup Diet
If you have a very small amount of weight to lose, or if you want to jump-start a longer term calorie reduction diet plan, then utilizing the Chicken Soup Diet for a short-term (3-5 days) might be plausible. The severe reduction in calories will probably help drop some immediate weight, but staying on the diet past a few days is not a good plan. For true Chicken Soup lovers, you may be able to do this for a week. Overall, I’d suggest you can skip the Chicken Soup Diet and lower your calories with more variety than a single-component diet plan. But whatever you decide to do, good luck with you plans!

The Chicken Soup Diet works on a very simple idea. You have 1 breakfast each day (see breakfast choices listed below) and as much chicken soup as you want during the day. First off, here is the recipe for the chicken soup, below you’ll find the breakfast choices you can have each morning.
Recipe:
Ingredients:
• 2 Tbs. oil, best if you use olive oil
• 4 parsnips cut into 1/2 inch pieces (this is about 1 lb. of parsnips)
• 4 ribs celery sliced
• 1 turnip cut into 1/2 inch pieces (3/4 of a pound)
• 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped
• 1 Tbs. chopped garlic
• 2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. cayenne pepper
• 16 cups reduced fat, low sodium, chicken broth
• 7 cans (5 oz. each) of chicken, or 5 cups (1 1/2 lbs) fresh chicken (cooked)
• 1 bag (16 oz.) frozen carrots
• 1 box (10 oz.) frozen broccoli florets
• 1 box (10 oz.) frozen chopped collard greens
• 1 1/2 cups frozen chopped onions
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh dill or 1 tbs dried dill.

Cooking Instructions:
Using a large pot, heat the oil over a medium head. Add the parsnips, celery, turnip, jalapeno peppper, garlic, salt and cayenne pepper. Cook all the vegetables until the are crisp-tender…this should take about 15 minutes. Add the broth, chicken, carrots, broccoli, collard greens, onions, lemon juice and dill. Brink it to a boil, reduce heat and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
This will make 26 cups of soup.

Breakfasts Choices
On the chicken soup diet you are allowed one breakfast a day. Now you can try a different breakfast every day, and this is the best way because it will give you a good nutritional balance. Since there are only 5 different ones to choose from, for the last two days of the diet, repeat the ones you liked the best. Okay, here are the Breakfast dishes:

Breakfast 1:
• 1 cup vanilla nonfat yogurt combined with 1/2 cup chopped fruit salad and sprinkled with wheat germ.

Breakfast 2:
• 1 cup ricotta cheese combined with 1/2 tsp. of sugar and a dash of cinnamon.
• 2 pieces while-grain bread, toasted
• 3 dried figs

Breakfast 3:
• 1 1/2 cups Total cereal
• 1/2 cup nonfat milk
• 1/2 cup calcium enriched orange juice

Breakfast 4:
• 1/2 cup prune juice
• 1 small whole-wheat bagel, topped with 1 oz of fat-free cheddar cheese melted.

Breakfast 5:
• 1 1/2 cups cooked Wheatena Cereal
• 1/2 cup nonfat milk

Remember, you have one of these breakfast dishes every day and then as much of the chicken soup as you want.