Joyfully Domestic: Chicken soup for one

Chicken Soup for One

Sometimes when you are trying to get healthy or lose weight you default to meat and salad.

But it is winter and I understand the need for soup.

Soup can be great. Full of good thing.

Or it can be full of things that don't support your weight lose efforts.... like butter or cream.

So if you are craving soup like I was here is one solution.

Take all your Lean and Green ingredients... and heat them up! Sounds simple because it is.

Here are the ingredients.

Chicken soup for one

6 ounces pre-cooked chicken, shredded

1/2 C mushrooms

1/2 C celery

1 C spinach

1 C low sodium chicken broth

spices (more on this later)

Throw the mushrooms, celery & chicken in a pan sprayed w/ oil. Saute until fragrant.

Measure 1 C low sodium chicken broth & slowly add to pan while stirring.

Add 1/2 teaspoon of something. I used Thai seasoning. I love this stuff. You can add 1/2 teaspoon thyme, oregano, whatever. Just make sure the seasoning doesn't have any salt or sugar and you are good to go! If you are using thyme you might need to grind in some pepper. This Thai seasoning has red pepper already in it.

Get a bowl. You'll need a bigger size bowl for this. Put the raw spinach in it. If you want, you can add the spinach to the pan and cook it. I like to do it this way: