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Vegetable Soup Recipe

On May 20, 2011, in Recipes, by admin

vegetable soup recipe article imageIn this article I will share my favorite vegetable soup recipe. Many people are looking for a weight loss vegetable soup recipe that is both nutritious and filling. This article will share my favorite vegetable soup recipe. This is a wonderful winter soup recipe because it is hearty and filling.

 

Vegetable Soup Recipe Setup

 

Broth

  • vegetable broth or instant vegetable base
  • dried beans
  • 150-200g of white beans
  • 150-200g of red beans

 

Vegetables

  • 200-300g green beans
  • 2 medium zucchini
  • 1-2 floury potatoes
  • 2 carrots
  • 4-5 tomatoes
  • 200g of fine, thin soup noodles
  • 1-4 garlic cloves
  • 5 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 onion
  • 1/2-1 bushel parsley
  • Sea salt or coarse salt ground pepper
  • Freshly ground white or black pepper

 

Set

  • 2 servings of pesto
  • 200-300g of fresh, finely grated Parmesan

 

Cookware

  • 1 large soup pot
  • 1 sieve
  • 1 potato peeler
  • 1 Cheese Grater
  • A kitchen scale
  • 1 measuring cup

 

Vegetable Soup Preparation

Make the broth. Soak the white and red beans and overnight in unsalted water.

 

Making The Soup

  1. Pour the unsalted water in a small pan, bring to a boil.
  2. Slice the tomatoes and cook for about 30 seconds in the boiling water.
  3. With a spoon lift out of the water, remove the skin and remove the stalk.
  4. Cut the tomatoes into quarters, remove the seeds from the vegetable water and cut the tomato flesh into strips.
  5. Drain the beans through a sieve and let drain.
  6. Peel the carrots and slice them thinly.
  7. Wash the potatoes, peel with a vegetable peeler, cut unsightly places and cut with a kitchen slicer into thin slices.
  8. Wash the zucchini and cut into thin slices.
  9. Wash the green beans, cut both ends and pull the threads if necessary.
  10. Cut the onion and garlic into small cubes.
  11. Wash the parsley, remove anything ugly, dry and remove the stems and slice the rest into fine pieces.
  12. Simmer the beans with the parsley together for 1.5 hours in liquid to cook.
  13. Season the carrots and potatoes and simmer for about 20 minutes together.
  14. Now add the beans and add zucchini and simmer for about 20 min.
  15. Add the soup noodles and cut into strips.
  16. Add tomatoes.
  17. Simmer another 10 minutes on low heat.
  18. Taste the soup/stew and season to taste.

 

Setting The Table

Serve with pistachios and cheese.

 

Additional Sides

Baguette – any kind of dry bread will suffice.

 

Variations

Prepare the soup just with the same amount of beef stock or chicken broth.

 

This recipe is a bit complicated, but it makes a wonderful soup. If your are looking for vegetable soups, this is well worth your time. Vegetable soup recipes are a healthy and wonderful alternative to other less filling soups and other meals. They are relatively easy to prepare because you can make them in bulk and it is well worth the effort. If you enjoy this vegetable soup recipe, please share your experience in the comments below.

 

 

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Ways to Lose Weight Fast

On April 5, 2011, in Weight Loss, by admin

If you are looking for ways to lose weight fast, then you have come to the right place. This website has many weight loss tips from how to exercise to how to eat and everything, including psychology, in between.

The first question people often think about with weight loss is what they are eating. A reasonable first question may then be about what to eat to lose weight fast.

While this is a good question, the negative is even more important. So instead of just thinking about what to eat to lose weight, you may first want to consider what not to eat to avoid gaining weight.

The reason I focus on what not to eat first is because one bad meal or snack can ruin an entire day, or even several days worth, or perfect dieting.

So what are some good rules for what not to eat?

  1. Think “outside of the bakery”
  2. Processed means dead calories (lots of dead junk that makes you fat)
  3. Fats and carbohydrates are like cats and dogs – they usually do not get along
  4. Do not eat until you feel like an inflated balloon

Actually, rule 3 is just a repetition of the first rule. carbohydrates and fats are like carbohydrates and sugars – they help you gain fat very quickly. Unless your bakery is very different from the one by my house, almost everything found inside of one will destroy any efforts you make to eat well.

Rules two and four help you constrict calories where they should be constricted. Do not drink or eat anything that is contained in metal, plastic or cardboard. Many of you may not know how to eat at first given this rule, so you may have to go and ask active and healthy looking people how to eat better.

This means no cereal, no fruit juice and no canned vegetables.

You actually need to go to the produce section and buy foods that will rot if you do not eat them in the next week. You also should drink beverages like green tea (no sugar or milk), miso soup, and apple cider vinegar water or fresh fruit smoothies and yogurt.

Of course, water is at the top of the list – no calories and it helps hydrate you when your body is thirsty – asking to be hydrated with, well, water!

Follow these dietary guidelines and you will quickly lose a lot of weight quickly!

However, this is not all for this article since there are many ways to lose weight fast. I will now talk about the other key component; exercise.

You may be wondering, “What is the fastest way to lose weight?” The above recommendations are good, however, a better question to ask is:

“What is the best way to lose weight?”

Focus on the long term and you are guaranteed long-term success. Focus on the short term and your results will only be temporary.

Therefore, the best way to lose weight fast is to follow my “do not eat” rules and to become an active person.

Active person means that you are a person who regularly seeks activity. You do not avoid it, and being active becomes a very important part of who you are.

If you want to lose weight, you likely have a lot of excess weight on you. This comes from two things; poor diet and inactivity.

I discuss in other articles what I think are the best exercises to lose weight, but for now, just look at your current activity.

How many hours of exercise do you perform each week?

Walking up stairs does not count as activity, nor does walking into stores from your car. If you are not going to use your legs, you may as well get one of those electric wheel chairs. Many people who are forced to use them would kill to be in your position with a working pair of legs.

Whatever your current level of exercise, a simple recommendation is to increase it by 4 hours per week. If you currently get no exercise, go to the gym and workout 4 hours a week, or play a few games of soccer / football. Sorry, bowling and baseball do not count – you need to actually exert yourself for it to count as exercise.

If you have a lot of extra body fat, consider riding bike outside where you are forced to pedal up hill sometimes. Try to beat your old times, and push yourself.

Your body will not change unless you force it to.

I have not talked about what food to eat to lose weight, but what food not to eat since this is more important in the beginning. Couple this with four more hours of exercise per week and you will see fast weight reduction.

Enjoy the rest of this site – most articles will help you find several ways to lose weight fast, but remember, the three keys are diet, exercise, and becoming an active person.

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On November 21, 2010, in , by admin

 

Welcome to BendTheBar.com, a blog focused not only on weight loss tips, but a winning psychology as well. We all want to be happier, healthier people, but with the amount of junk floating around on the Internet, our heads can get quickly filled with rubbish.

 

 

Put enough rubbish in there and we start to think it’s true. This is how brainwashing works. Well, I’m here to make that brain of yours dirty again with empowering ideas and helpful tips that will help you become what you want to be.

 

How can you trust me? Well, I think a picture is often worth a thousand words:

Me in 2005, not my fattest

Me in 2007 after losing the fat

 

Now, this is not a picture of a bodybuilder who fattened himself up for a photo op – bodybuilders do not look like I used to! I was a genuine fattie, and had a great personality, yadda yadda yadda. I would love to show you some pictures of my leg and arm definition (this was before I became strong), but since I am a teacher – it is not appropriate to post anything more revealing than the above. And if my students saw my fat picks… how embarrassing! Note, I’m not a model – I did not shave off body hair for the photo, use tanning oil, pump iron or use Photoshop. If I did, I could look like the model on a magazine cover, and so could you! I know this because I do use Photoshop and have learned many tricks of the trade – but that is not what this blog is about.

 

It’s the candid truth about losing weight, and that’s why it’s valuable – from someone who has actually done it, and kept it off for over 6 years now.

 

Had I not lost the weight and kept it off, I guarantee that I would not have met my lovely wife or done half the things I have done in the last 6 years. I have since been to 18 countries, been married for 4 years to a smart, sexy and wonderful Korean woman. I also only work 25 hours per week. Before I lost the weight, I had been to one country and worked 3 jobs. I look like a new man, and trust me, it makes all the difference.

 

At least for now, I will not focus on the benefits of how being physically powerful has its advantages, but these benefits have had unexpected rewards as well.

 

Don’t believe the lies they tell you about it being OK to be overweight – they’re meant to keep you from becoming what you want to be. If you suddenly get fit, your fat friends will feel threatened and likely ostracize you and try to sabotage your efforts. Don’t let them. You will feel healthier for the rest of your life, be able to do things you could never do before, and you will make better, more capable friends who can enjoy these activities with you.

 

As you can guess, there are many topics that I wish to cover on this blog. These include, but are not limited to losing fat and eating better. I admit that many of my article titles may not be very revealing, but they are at least pertinent to the title and are to the point. I don’t write a title for one thing then talk about something completely different, at least most of the time. Nor do I use newspaper titles to lure your interest and then waste your time. I also hit the same topic from several different angles, and I direct you to different posts often.

 

For example, I may tell you how to get rid of belly fat in one article, and how to reduce tummy fat in another. There are many ways to lose weight fast, but I will talk about how to lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks several times. Protein shake recipes sound an awful lot like meal replacement shakes for weight loss? They are! However, I have different things to say about each, so pleas just bear with me.

 

I blog because I enjoy writing and making resources available for friends, family and my Internet followers. However, I hate organizing everything. If I had to do this, I would have less time and motivation for writing. I hope you can lose weight quickly and keep the weight off thanks to these posts. It is just the beginning, but I plan on writing hundreds of posts on weight loss topics that are relevant to you.

 

I recently decided to expand the blog to include food because I decided to start cooking a bit. Therefore, I will talk about what to eat to lose weight including chicken breast recipes of course (every bodybuilder’s favorite), as well as at least one healthy vegetable soup recipe, and probably a lot more to follow.

 

If the fancy hits me, I may also cover weigh loss fallacies and methods which are unsafe, and unsustainable. There is no point in losing weight temporarily unless you are a bodybuilder preparing for a competition, or a sick person preparing for an operation. Therefore, I will focus on sustainable weight loss; teaching you how to naturally lose weight and keep it off.

 

Finally, my pen name (and not my real name) is Nicholas Giles because some of what I write and picture I post may not be appropriate for my young students, like the one below (a bit drunk in France with both a Champagne bottle in one hand and a watter bottle in the other!) . If I am no longer a teacher, I will likely share my identity and other projects with you. Thank you for understanding.

 

Come back often to see what new health posts I’ve made and always feel free to leave comments and share tips of your own! I look forward to continuing my improvement with you.

It feels great to lose weight, but sometimes you gotta to bend the rules!

 

 

 

Sincerely,

Nicholas Giles

 

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