{"id":6795,"date":"2009-03-25T10:43:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T15:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2009-03-25T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T15:43:13","slug":"soup-the-perfect-food-for-a-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/soup-the-perfect-food-for-a-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"Soup: The Perfect Food for a Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>With the economic downturn<\/a> weighing down upon our collective consciousness, many of us are tightening our budgets at least until the storm blows over. Believe it or not, there is a silver lining. That is, you can find new and cheaper ways to prepare meals, and still do it on a tighter budget.<\/p>\n

There are many ways you can stay frugal and healthy<\/a> at the same time. One effective way is to make soups. I think soups (homemade, anyway) are the forgotten weight management tool. There’s a reason soup kitchens are used to feed the poor, and just generally associated with rough times – soups are economical to make, and in large quantities!<\/p>\n

The key to the effectiveness of soup, from a health perspective, is that they’re usually not very calorie dense. Meaning, you get a lot of bulk for few calories. Plus, I’ve always found soups to be more satiating than your average meal.<\/p>\n

Lastly, soups are almost always super-easy to prepare. You shop for your list of ingredients, put them in a pot, and simmer them. Sure, there are some variances, but you get the point.<\/p>\n

If you’re single, you may need to be open to reheating it for a few days to get some extended value from your soup. But, you can always miniaturize the portion sizes of your ingredients.<\/p>\n

Find dozens of healthy soup recipes<\/a> right here at DietsInReview.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the economic downturn weighing down upon our collective consciousness, many of us are tightening our budgets at least until the storm blows over. Believe it or not, there is a silver lining. That is, you can find new and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[520,634,31,29,1169,3710],"class_list":["post-6795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-cooking","tag-economy","tag-health-news","tag-nutrition","tag-recession","tag-soups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6869,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}