New Potato Pages Added to Mr Soup and Salad
Potatoes: A Simple Ingredient With Plenty To Explore We have started building our potato section on MrSoupandSalad.com. Potatoes are one of those everyday ingredients that many of us already know and use. They are affordable, filling, flexible, and can be cooked in…
New Tomato Pages Added to Mr Soup and Salad
We have added some pages about Tomatoes. a general tomatoes page, a page about the nutritional value of tomatoes and one about grow your own tomatoes.
A Balanced Diet
Despite the name, Mr Soup and Salad is not about living on soup and salad alone. A healthy balanced diet needs variety. It can include vegetables, fruit, protein, fibre, wholegrains, healthy fats, dairy or dairy alternatives, herbs, spices, and the occasional treat…
Eat The Rainbow
One simple way to make healthy eating more interesting is to “eat the rainbow”. This means adding a variety of colourful fruit, vegetables, herbs, beans, pulses, grains and other plant-based ingredients to our meals. The colours in fruit and vegetables usually come…
Eating Healthy, Not Perfectly
Eating well is not about being perfect. For me, healthy eating is about giving my body more of what helps it feel better: colourful vegetables, fresh ingredients, useful protein, fibre, good flavour, and meals that leave me feeling satisfied rather than sluggish. When…
My Weight Rollacoaster
JUNE 2022 18st 3lbs EVENT: Join a slimming club. EXERCISE: Just walking the dogs. FOOD: Decide to reduce, bread, dairy, fatty foods, processed sugar, and meat. Instead focus on soups, salads, home made meals, vegetables and fresh fruit. NOVEMBER 2022 15st 10lbs…
How I Became Mr Soup and Salad
Hello, I’m John — also known as “Mr Soup and Salad”. The nickname was given to me at a slimming club, and somehow it stuck. My journey started on 1 June 2022. I was nearly 19 stone and approaching 60. I originally went along to keep my wife company, and I did not…