The Mersea Diet (Delicious Seafood, Soup and Salad Diet Recipes)

If you love a recipe, please give it a thumbs up by rating it 5 stars! Making the broth right now. When you say a cup of veggies for a serving, do you mean a cup total including all veggies or a cup each making a batch- sorry, i just want to be sure? Beautiful soup and tastes lovely! I live off grid and stocked up on this soup. Thank you for sharing!

I would never have thought of putting turmeric, vinegar, and ginger in vegie soup you know, used to traditional thyme, sage, blah blah. This completely fits the bill. As to the super food focus, it is so easy to stay on. All the delish things in this soup, berries, your oat bran bowl, shaved salads.

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I am so glad I found your blog. We love Swanson products. I love this soup. Hi-Any thoughts on what I would prefer to do which would be make a big batch of the whole soup, not just broth and portion it and freeze it that way? Thanks for posting about this!

Please read my disclosure policy. If you want to use this recipe, please link back to this page. You Might Also Like. Grapefruit Gingersnap Pie December 15, Previous Post Next Post. But it led me to ruminate on the likely fate for most of our coasts - with the decline of fishing many of the coastal communities are destined to become charming but lifeless exhibits of past endeavour. I found great fish there, though - the still-bountiful produce of the North Sea and North Atlantic.

The fish auctions at Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Scrabster and Kinlochbervie are bustling and successful, with good landings of fish from the north all the way to Norway. At the market in Peterhead, there were a dozen halibut all over 20kg. I was surrounded by boxes of the freshest brown cod I'd ever seen, speckled with yellow and tinged with green, lustrous black; monkfish with heads on for the continental market, lots of coley, or saithe as it is also known, with charcoal backs and unusual species such as wolffish, known locally as rock turbot.

I found some pretty memorable meals up there, too - a crab salad at the Cellar at Anstruther on the Fife coast was all that I could have wished for. The Tollbooth at Stonehaven just outside Aberdeen had a wonderful bouillabaisse-style fish stew with really positive flavours. Early summer this year saw me at the estuary of the river at Glencaple near Dumfries, on the River Nith, taking part in a day of half-net fishing for salmon: Later, we journeyed all the way up the west coast to Cape Wrath, stopping off at Loch Fyne Oysters for smoked salmon, a perfectly-grilled piece of halibut, and, of course, the lovely oysters.

Then it was on to the Airds Hotel at Port Appin for a dish of red mullet and langoustine tails with diced red peppers, olive oil and capers. This was followed by a a week of uncharacteristically balmy weather in the far north where I came to the conclusion that the Western Isles presents one of the world's most beautiful vistas.

I went across to Skye, to the Three Chimneys and marvelled at the remoteness of such a place and yet the sophistication of the cooking.

The owners, Shirley and Eddie Spear, had left the south east of England for a better life on the Celtic fringe of the country. I found other restaurants on that coast such as The Summer Islands Hotel at Achiltibuie and the Albannach Hotel at Lochinver with similar idealistic southerners running great fish restaurants. Maybe that escape to a simpler life underpinned my decision to open a restaurant in Cornwall.

How wrong I was! Go out to West Cork where there's a cluster of Breton restaurants opened by people who saw in that charmed part of the country a pureness and innocence gone from Brittany. I spent some time searching the west coast of Ireland for good chowders - an interesting culinary migration from France to New England and back to Ireland. I was impressed with the bowl served at Monks pub in Ballyvaughan in County Clare.

Idealism and a wish for a simpler life flourishes in the far west in Connemara, too, where Peter Mantle left a job as a financial journalist in London to set up Delphi Lodge near Leenane. The sea trout fishing here is becoming good again after many lean years caused, Peter thinks, by the fish farms near the lodge whose presence led to an explosion of sea lice which decimated the wild popula tion.

The seafood in the evening at the lodge after a day's fishing is pretty special - eaten at an enormous table with Peter and fly fishermen from all over the world and involving a drowsy evening of port and tall fishing stories by a log fire even in summer. I made turkey sausage patties for breakfast topped with tomatoes. For lunch, I had grilled chicken topped with tomatoes seasoned with salt, basil, pepper and cabbage soup.

For dinner, I had more wonder soup, but I added turkey breakfast sausage to it and more tomatoes.

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I got tired of the soup on this day. I had turkey sausage and roasted veggies for breakfast. I had a stir-fry with chicken and veggies for lunch, so good. I had spaghetti squash with tomato sauce and ground turkey for dinner. Spaghetti squash is off limits starchy , but I had to have it! Today was the best! I was feeling over cabbage. I wanted more meat. I feel clean inside.

For breakfast, I make a huge fruit and veggie smoothie using spinach, apples, oranges, grapes, and water. It was so divine and sweet! Kept me full until it was time for lunch! For dinner, I do another riced cauliflower stir fry with roasted veggies. I snack on baked cinnamon apples and cantaloupe. Day 8- 10lbs down this morning and I can see it!!

Tummy is nice and flat, and my face looks much slimmer. My husband notices my weight loss too.

My fingers are slimmer, and my wedding ring fits different. Today I paced myself with food and will do so for the next week while on vacation. No sugary foods or bad carbs. I continue with a diet full of fruits, veggies, and lean meats. Here are a few frequently asked questions about the 7-day cabbage soup diet. Can I substitute with other foods? Other than that I follow the plan with a few cheats here and there. And be sure to come back and let us all know how it worked out!

I loved my results, can I do this beyond seven days? Can I exercise on this diet? Your calories are minimal on the cabbage soup diet. Do not work out for the seven days while on this plan or a few days afterward. I feel so tired of this diet, help? This diet may not be for you, especially if your days are high energy.

The cabbage soup diet has low calories. Eat as much cabbage soup as you would like to keep your stamina up and drink plenty of water. If I start to feel sluggish, I cheat and have a baked sweet potato, a protein shake or some juice.

I gained all my weight back shortly after completing this diet? Be sure to continue drinking lots of water after the diet. If you stop with the water intake, your body will start to hold on to fluids again. Pace yourself after the diet and eat small, frequent portions of fruits, veggies, and proteins. No refined sugars and bad carbs. Start with a balanced eating plan or lifestyle that will support normal weight loss along with exercise.