I bought a spiral cut ham for just my Wife and I.

"we" have LOTS of left over ham, and I'm thinking of making some soup with it.

I'm on a low carb. diet, and can't have any beans, rice or 'taters.

So my options are limited.

Am thinking maybe some kind of chili, with no beans,(correct kind) green pepper, onion, etc.

Anyone have any good ideas?


Thanks! Virgil B.

vbs, ham, and chili in the same sentence somehow sounds a bit strange to me.
I hope someone comes along with real help, all I can think of just now might be diet Ex lax pudding.

How about Split Pea Soup. No Beans, you can either use green peas or yellow split peas which ever one has the lowest carb count. Good Luck

you can make a decent soup with stock, the ham, kale, spinach or some other greens, celery, and vegetables like corn, carrots, turnips or squash.
Frankly, it would be a LOT better with some rice in it.

Lentil soup. Dried lentils soaked overnight, the ham, carrots, onions, maybe a little celery if you like, chicken stock, cumin, garlic. That's all I can remember off the top of my head.

try shedded potatoes in your soup. we use left over spiral ham in soup all the time. shredded taters ,corn and ham is very good. onions are always a must.sometimes we add a can of white beans.

Bingo.

Lentils are high in total carbs. They are slow to break down generally, but not good for a low-carb diet.

Cabbage and cauliflower are king. Onions are fairly high in carbs, too, and the carbs are sugary rather than complex.

Ham, cabbage, and cauliflower make very good soup.

Blended cauliflower with butter makes a very good mashed potato substitute.

What is the exact purpose of not eating carbs, when you wadding in salty, fat ridden ham and junk????

It is traditional where I am from to have soup twice a day, lunch and supper. In the winter the most popular soup is hunters stew (bigos). It is basically what ever meat you have, spices similar to pickling spice, tomato, mushrooms, sauerkraut and cabbage.
Tradition says it is on the back burner at all times, and every day you add stuff to get the pot full. So there is no real recipe, just add left over meat and keep the main items like cabbage added. My family strives for multiple meat types like beef, pork,venison, and associated sausages - not really chicken or turkey.

http://paleoleap.com/bigos-polish-hunters-stew/

http://easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/maincourses/r/bigos.htm

Here is a cabbage soup recipe I just stole off Allrecipes.com. Sounds pretty good and would be great with your ham tossed into the mix. I may give this a try myself.

Place carrots, onions, tomatoes, cabbage, green beans, peppers, and celery in a large pot. Add onion soup mix, tomato juice, beef broth, and enough water to cover vegetables. Simmer until vegetables are tender. May be stored in the refrigerator for several days.

Who said the ham was laden with fat? Could be a very lean ham, or the fat might be trimmed completely away.

If you were a diabetic, you would understand his low carb need.



If you don't want a broth based soup,or you prefer something different with texture, you could make a cream style soup with them also. Use lots of cauliflower. When the cabbage and cauliflower are cooked, remove the heads of cauliflower, blend them with some whole cream, or some half & half. and them ad back to the soup kettle.

No need to add any salt. Flavor with garlic, black pepper etc...

Good luck in your search.

What a miserable prick....

Don't you have a puppy to kick or something.

Thanks for all the tips!
Will keep these in mind for next time.

The soup I ended up making had;

2 cans low sodium chicken broth

1 can diced tomatoes

6 tomatillos

1 bell pepper

2 lbs diced ham

1 diced onion

1 Ts. chili powder

2 Tbsp. Tapatio

2 Tbsp. green Tobasco

It actually turned out pretty darn good!

I've lost 13 lbs in the last month, on my low carb. diet!

Virgil B.

Forgot to mention;

YES, all the fat was trimmed away from the ham.

On this low carb. diet, I can have all the meat I want, just very few carbs. that come from things such as rice, beans, carrots, potatoes, bread, wheat etc.

Bigos is a favorite of mine.

Virgil B.

F$%K you field $hit for brains I just wondered I have seen every kind of diet come and go you can shove the olive branch up your ass you mouth overloading [bleep]!!!!!!!!!

My you have a potty mouth!

Low carb diets have been around for a long time and are still going strong because they actually work.

Yeah , it's my mouth to use as I choose been that way for 60 years, learned from the best so nothing to do bout it now!!!!!!!!

Sounds like you spent too long on the lead paint chip diet.

These sort don't seem to last long around here.
Miss Lynn would be of use, but she has been scarce lately.

Definitely, not directed at you but can you blame her? This joint went to heck for a short while there. And then of course there was the……well NM!!

Enjoy the soup gents!!

As you said, byc, this place has it's ups, and downs.
We should, as they used to say, "Accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative."
I am lost on "NM". But, I am lost a lot!

Low carb = no sugar !!! Did u check out that ham???...I'm 20 lbs down in 24 days so far !...I sleep like a baby at nite and I'm not one bit tired during the day
! Man did I say I feel good ??....oh yea I do !!!!

Go Thru the induction food list and make the soup from their acceptable foods list !

NM=never mind. I was going to dive into subject matter directed at people missing but not pertinent to the OP.

Sorry for the diversion.

I'm trying to follow the Low Carb/High Fat/Moderate Protein diet. Down 35 lbs in 7 months. The Wife bakes cakes as a hobby so it can be a struggle. Just remember Cauliflower is your friend and can be substituted or incorporated into many recipes.

How did you do that??

Eastern European ? Mother was from Hungary and soup was a staple on our dinner table.

My spiral cut ham was honey cured, which is heavy with carbs, but had to be eaten up, so I used it for soup.

I'm still down 13 lbs. for the last month, and will be using un-cured meat for my future soups.

Next on the list, is a Beef, broth, Cauliflower, Chinese Cabbage soup.

I'm a "soupy" kind of guy!

Any good "hints" or ideas on this one???


Thanks! Virgil B.

Keep the windows open and hope for a breeze.

I lost 50 lbs doing the no carb diet. Most importantly I've kept it off.

mathman;
Good advice!

I might need to spend lots of time out on the front porch, guarding my bird feeder after eating some of this soup, hoping for a breeze! (GRIN!)

Got soup made last night, and will eat some later today.

Seems soup is usually best after setting over night.

I used;

2 lbs beef roast, diced and browned

3 cans beef broth

1 onion, diced

1/2 head Chinese Cabbage, diced

1/2 head Cauliflower, diced

2 Jalapeno peppers, diced

1/2 green bell pepper, diced

1/2 Zucchini, diced

1 Tbsp. black pepper

2 Tbsp. green Tabasco

2 Tbsp. Tapatio

Hope it's worth eating!

Virgil B.

I ate some of my soup last night.

It was pretty darn good with a "dollop" of sour creme it it!

Tasted kind of like a Borsch. It didn't even gas me up much! (GRIN!)

Virgil B.

I roll at <20 carbs a day

I added up the carbs in my soup, and it came up to 18 for the whole pot.

So, I'm thinking about 5 carbs per bowel with a spoon full of sour creme.

I ate a total of 19 carbs yesterday, and weighted in at 201 lbs. Down one more pound. I slipped up to 202 after eating sugar/honey cured ham. No more of that!


I'm on the right path again!

Virgil B.

per bowel ?

No desire to know nor contemplate how he counted them...

It's too bad because it was refreshing when she contributed a little pick me up on the Cooking forum.

I believe Miss Lynn is tired of these swine and simply chooses to invest her energy elsewhere.

dirt, right you may well be about Miss Lynn, thinksme.
My time spent on the "fire", may be wasted time, but now, and then I learn a few things.

I have met some nice, kind folks here.

She brought her drama to the cooking section as well as elsewhere here.

I'm not the only one she had issues with. The list is fairly long.

Here we go!! So much for soup!

Hang on!!

On the old Grocho Marx show, "You Bet Your Life", a duck came down, and gave $50 for the secret word.

What do I get? Perhaps I should not ask!

Yeah it's my fault. So much for soup.JMHO and by the way I didn't broach the subject.

Adios.

well hells bells I didn't do nutten neither!!!!

Adios me 2!!!!

Oh you think she is gone AH!

Sorry guys!

I needed to check my spelling. "bowel" should have been bowl, or per serving.

I emptied my bowels, this AM and lost another pound! Down to 200 now! (GRIN!)



Virgil B.

How? What do you eat / drink?

It's easy!

Just get yourself an Atkins carb counter book, that tells you the carb content of foods, and just eat the lowest carb stuff.

You can eat all the meat you want, and most fish also.
Plus the fat is carb free also, and good for helping you feel full.

Just stay away from starch, sugar, and grains.

No bread, 'taters, or rice.

And NO candy, soda pop or beer!


It's WORKING for ME!!! I've lost 14 lbs. in a month!

Scotch has ZERO carbs, so I can have a wee nip w/water! (GRIN!)

Virgil B.

Rooster7; I re-read your question;

You were asking about what to drink.

On this diet you need to drink at least 8-8oz. glasses of water per day to help keep yourself "regular"

Lots of low carb. vegetables help me with this also.

I drink sugarless ice tea. White wine is only .8 carbs per small glass, so I drink a little of it also.

One can drink diet pop but I don't care of it personally.

Virgil B.

Gotcha. I don't drink pop. So that's a start I guess...