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A big bowl of this hearty, homestyle vegetable soup is the perfect thing on a cold day. It’s packed with veggies, low in fat (or make it fat free), and contains healthy carbs for a delicious Trim Healthy Mama E soup. Easily tweaked to suit S and FP styles, too!

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It’s been a little cold and snowy lately in our area. That means soups to warm and fill our bellies are what we crave.

Vegetable soup is so easy! It’s a great way to use up little bits and pieces of veggies, too.

Below I have a simple, classic, homestyle vegetable soup for you. However, feel free to change up the veggies with what you have on hand (or prefer).

One of my goals this year is more plant-based meals every week. I’ve made this a completely vegan recipe, but it’s easy to tweak if you prefer chicken broth or lean meats added to your veggie soup.

What Do I Need For This Recipe?

Basically, you need broth, veggies, and seasonings. I’ve included my favorite combination for a classic vegetable soup:

• Vegetable broth
• Diced tomatoes
• Carrots
• Celery
• Onion
• Garlic
• Peas
• Green beans
• Corn
• White beans
• Yellow potatoes
• Olive oil (optional, leave out for fat free soup)
• Bay leaves
• Thyme
• Nutritional yeast (optional)
• Turmeric
• Salt
• Pepper

It looks like a ton of ingredients, but this vegetable soup is easily comes together! I use frozen peas and corn and frozen green beans also work well. I just happened to have fresh French green beans on hand and used those.

This soup almost tastes like canned vegetable soup — but way better! And, it has far less sodium than canned soups.

It makes a big pot of soup, too. Great for bigger families or meal prep. Make some over the weekend to easily reheat later for quick meals.

This soup even freezes well, just cook the veggies until they’re almost tender if you’re planning to freeze for later.

How To Fit This Homestyle Vegetable Soup Into Your THM Meal Planning This Week.

As written, this delicious, hearty recipe is a solid THM E. It’s low in fat (2.7 grams) and higher in healthy carbs (36.2 grams net).

If you like, leave out the oil and cook the onions, celery, and garlic in a bit of broth instead.

If the carb count is higher than you like, cut back on the starchier veggies or eliminate one or two. Replace with more of the non-starchy veggies or completely different non-starchies if you like.

Serving with a slice of sprouted bread, or another on-plan E bread option, makes this dish a complete protein!

For more protein, choose lean protein options such as:

• Lentil Burgers
• Chicken or turkey breast (add to soup or side salad)
• Egg whites (on the side or in a salad with low fat dressing)
• Half or full scoop of collagen stirred into your soup
• Smoothie or shake made with on-plan protein powder
• Low fat cottage cheese
• Fat free Greek yogurt

Want more delicious soup recipes? Check out my Soups category!

How To Make This Soup THM S or FP Friendly.

It’s very easy to change up the veggies in this soup and make it THM S or FP friendly!

• Replace the potatoes with sliced or diced radishes or cauliflower rice
• Omit the corn
• Leave out the peas or reduce to 1/4 cup
• Omit the white beans or reduce to 1/2 cup
• Omit or reduce the carrots to 1/4 cup
• For THM S, use more olive oil to cook the veggies or increase the fat elsewhere in your meal
• Increase the green beans
• Add cabbage or other non-starchy veggies like zucchini (add this in the last few minutes of cooking)
• You can also increase the broth as needed, just be sure to adjust the seasoning if you do

For S meals, enjoy fats liberally. Salads are perfect companions to bowls of delicious soups so enjoy a lovely S-friendly dressing like my Creamy Citrus Salad Dressing (it’s dairy free).

For FP meals, keep your fats low and don’t go overboard on protein. Around 20 grams is good, for reference: a 3 ounce piece of chicken breast has almost 20 grams.

Bread options for THM S include my Mock Rye Bread or Mock Rye Cocktail Bread, my yummy Garlic Biscuits, or these Melt In Your Mouth Biscuits.

For THM FP, choose low carb and low fat bread options like the THM WWBB (Wonderful White Blender Bread), Basic Low Carb Yeast Bread, Parmesan Herb Biscuits Muffins, or In a Jiffy Corn Muffins.

THM Fuel Pull Desserts To Try.

Low fat, low carb desserts or smoothies are a great way to finish off your S or FP meal, too:

• Mini Waffles with my Strawberry Sauce (or Strawberry Rhubarb Sauce) OR Sugarless Chocolate Syrup
• Strawberry Rhubarb Whipped Cottage Cheese
• Chocolate Covered Strawberry Smoothie
• Blueberry Lemon Smoothie
• Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies
• Fudgy Brownie Bites
• Low Fat Soft Serve Ice Cream
• Sunrise Surprise Smoothie
• Cider Spiced Donuts

While soups are delicious in the colder weather months, they’re great all year round.

Ok, when it’s 105 and wickedly humid outside I’m not thinking of soup. But eating soup in the summer is not necessarily unusual for me! Sometimes, it just sounds good.

Do you eat soup all year long? What’s your favorite soup?

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