Useful Tips and Info About The Sacred Heart Soup Diet and Cleanse
Consider adding papaya to the Sacred Heart Cleanse. In the sacred heart diet, as much variety and colour as you can muster will help you with your weight loss efforts. As you know there are only certain foods you can have during the diet but the fact that you can eat as much as you want for the 7-day cleanse makes this an ideal springboard to health and wellness and weight loss.
The smoothie is a great addition to your diet and you can simply blend fruit and yogurt to make a great smoothie. Papaya is known for weight loss benefits because papaya can increase metabolism so making a papaya smoothie is a great idea for your weight loss efforts.
On your banana day, consider blending papaya with your banana smoothie for a great treat that has multiple health benefits.
Have I mentioned that my sacred heart soup recipe calls for tea? Instead of water, use:
-green tea
-white tea
-chai tea
-wulong tea
These teas infuse your soup with flavor and provide an array of health benefits that include antioxidants, increased metabolism and other health benefits as well. Go for organic tea whereever possible and steep it. Continue to use chicken or beef broth but switch around the water portion with tea.
White tea has a really light taste and provides health benefits that include fighting bacteria with strep and staph infections. It’s also good for your teeth!
Green Tea is of course a great way to rev up your metabolism and the metabolism boosting sacred heart soup could do even more for you with green tea.
Wulong or oolong tea is known for its metabolism boosting properties and it has a host of other health benefits as well.
Chai is an exotic flavor that adds something unique to your soup. I use this in an asian noodle soup my family makes on a regular basis.
Tea works great in many recipes and is great for your plants as well. When doing the soup diet, the soup can get boring fast if you don’t use your imagination. For each pot of soup during your 7-day cleanse, try using a different kind of tea.
A great way to make sure you have hot sacred heart soup on tap all day is to do it in the crockpot. The day I’m planning to start the diet I prep the soup the night before and put it in the crockpot before going to bed. You can cook it all night on low and have it ready for lunch for day 1 on the soup diet.
Not only does the crockpot cook it nicely but it keeps it warm throughout the day so you don’t have to use the nutrient zapping microwave. You can also find that when you make your soup in the crockpot you’ll have more flavour in it because the lid will be on and your broth won’t be evaporating.
The only complaint some have about making the sacred heart soup / cabbage soup this way is that sometimes if you leave it on too long, the noodles and vegetables can get overly soggy. After it’s done, consider putting it away at the end of the day in your refrigerator and then plugging it back in for the next morning.
This site also has some alternative cabbage soup recipes as well.
On the sacred heart (aka cabbage soup) diet, a lot of vegetables need to be consumed. To save yourself from getting bored, you need to mix it up and find different ways to serve it during your seven day cleanse to keep things tolerable. Here’s a vegetable stir fry that you can do on any day that you’re allowed to eat veggies as well as that can be mixed with your rice on the day you’re to eat brown rice.
-A small amount of cooking spray or extra virgin olive oil
-julienned vegetables of any variety including multicolored peppers, broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, baby corn, snow peas and anything else you like.
Stir fry on medium-high heat stirring constantly. If they seem a bit dry, feel free to put in a little bit of brewed tea or broth from your sacred heart soup to loosen it up. In fact, you can make your soup from this way by sauteeing your vegetables first and then adding in your broth and other ingredients for something a bit different.
In terms of spices…this is where the flavours can reallly come in to play. Try some lemon pepper seasoning and a dash of lemon juice or Mrs. Dash or ClubHouse Greek Spice. Some fresh garlic or any other spices you desire can also be used. Hot seasoning can even increase your metabolism as well.
The Sacred Heart Soup Diet is also known as the Cabbage Soup Diet. If you want to jump start weight loss or cleanse and detoxify your body this can be a great seven day solution that provides an unlimited quantity of specific foods setting itself apart from many other diets that leave you hungry and more likely to cheat.
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