Natural, Nutritious and Tasty – Vegetable Soup



Not only I like having soups but I also like trying my hands on it. All my family members love having different soup preparation. Today, I made a 100% healthy soup. It was without any artificial flavor or color. No cornstarch, no sauces. It’s completely natural and nutritious soup. I love serving it to my kids and my parents. It is quite simple to cook. Ingredients: Hand-full of cabbage, Peas, Carrot, two hand-full of Spinach, two thin slices of beet root, ¼ Bottle Gourd,1 small Potato, 5-6 medium Size tomato, boiled American corns, 1 lemon, salt and pepper.



1. Wash all veggies properly. Remove all possible dirt from it.
2. Cut all veggies in cube size. It may not be evenly cut as everything will be blended.
3. Soak all veggies except tomato in water. Cut tomato separately.
4. Take a pressure cooker and put 2 glasses full of water.
5. Put all soaked veggies as well as tomato inside cooker.
6. Put little salt and close the cooker.
7. After one whistle, keep the pressure cooker on a low flame for around 20-minutes.
8. Once all the pressure inside the cooker is over, open the cooker.
9. Blend all the veggies with blender.
10. Take a big container and a strainer. Put the boiled and blended veggies over the strainer.



11. Put little cold water over it. Wait till the liquid of veggies is cooled up.
12. Get maximum possible liquid strained into container. Let the thick liquid collected below strainer also into container.
13. Don’t throw the thick liquid collected on the back side of strainer. In fact put it inside the soup. It will make the soup thick and moreover, it contains lot of nutrients.
14. Put water if required. Add salt and pepper according to taste.
15. Keep the container of soup on flame. Let it get one boil.
16. Serve the hot soup in soup bowl. Put the one spoon of boil corn and 5-6 drops of lemon over it.



Enjoy this healthy and nutritious soup with your friends as well family. Soups are appetizer as well as a blessing in winter season. I also tried my hands on some organic vegetable soups from down to earth like chunky tomato, cream of pumpkin, carrot ginger soups, roasted pepper soup and many other tomato soups.

                      


                                 

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Tasty and healthy snacks for munching

I often feel hungry when I sit idle or whenever I do some boring job. Like many girls, even I am conscious about my health. That extra gain in weight scares me to hell. I use to often wonder what can I eat to satisfy my hunger and at the same time to satisfy my taste buds. I thought of making a list. Here it goes:

1.  Puffed rice snack: It is the most common snack available in India. All you need to do is, take little oil in pan, fry peanuts for a while and keep at aside. Add curry leaves and crushed garlic in oil. Wait till garlic turns brown. Reduce the flame, add puffed rice, fried peanuts and turmeric powder and some chili powder and salt. Mix well and fry it puffed rice becomes crispy.

2.    Bhel/ Puffed rice with veggies – All you need to do is add veggies like onion, tomato and cucumber to puffed rice. Add salt and squeeze a lemon. Mix it well and you are ready with your healthy tasty and munchy snack.

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3.   Pop corn – I like to munch popcorn during my idle time. It satisfies my  hunger and do not cost much on my health.

   

4.   Salad with loads of lemon – I am simply a lemon lover. I can eat anything with lemon added to it

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5.   Apple with walnut butter – Apple has lots of fiber. It gives a lot of energy and at the same time reduces hunger also.You can add little walnut butter to increase its taste.

     

 6.   Vegetable Sandwich – If I am extra hungry during an odd hour. I prefer a vegetable sandwich. Quickly cut tomato, onion, cucumber, boiled potato in thin slices. Add little salt and pepper.                    Apply butter  on a two slices of bread. Spread some ketch up both sides. Take a  slice of bread, put a layer for each vegetable and cover it up with another slice of bread. If you want it hot. Just toast the bread and you ready with your quick meal.

  

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How is organic food better for your family?

Is there any difference between traditionally grown food and organic food? Is it worth the money I pay for? How can I always get organic food from market? Will it be difficult to digest traditionally grown food later in life? Will it be fitting in my budget? These questions always hit my mind while purchasing grocery. I knew organic food is any day better for health. But, somehow, these questions use to bother me.

 


Finally, after doing some research on organic food, I decided I will give it a try for a month. I will just buy organic food and see if it hitting my grocery budget too much or not.

 To my surprise, things got better with organic food purchase. I will tell you how :
- Organic food gives sort of a feel good factor. It gives me a feeling that

1. I am doing a right thing for my coming generation
2. I am not letting my kids have chemicals, fertilizers or pesticides
3. I have read somewhere that our food has a great impact on thoughts we get in our mind. Good food results in good thoughts and good thoughts results in successful life.

      - We are atually spending less on medicines. Our expenses on medicines have gone down by almost                80%.      

      - I have also realized, if many educated people like me will start consuming organic food, it will result in greater demand, which in turn will result in cost of production for organic food to go down. Our farmers will eventually just produce the organic food.
 

Share your thoughts on consumption of organic food. I would suggest, next time you go for grocery purchase, and choose organically grown food over conventionally grown food. At least try for a month and see result. You know, it is any day better for your family. Make sure you see a USDA mark before buying organic food.

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