It’s {Another} Book!

Dear, dear people.

Lately I have started way too many posts apologizing, and here’s another one, just to round things out.  I’m sorry I’ve been MIA.  In my defense, while I’ve been missing from here, I’ve been beavering away over there, and entirely on your behalf.  I’ve written you {another} cookbook.  A whole second book!  I think you’ll like it, mainly because it is full of soup.  More to the point, it is full of *SANE soup.  40 fat-burning, health-boosting, totally delicious soups.  I think my timing was good because it’s definitely soup season where I am, and where a lot of you are, too.  If you are one of our Southern Hemisphere friends, make them anyway – even though you’re heading into summer – they really are delicious.  And easy.  And simple.  And staggeringly healthy.  Did I mention delicious?

I’d really like it if you added this cookbook to your collection of awesome SANE resources, mostly because these recipes have the power to make living a SANE lifestyle that much easier, and THAT is important, dear people.  It’s important because Jonathan and I continually hear that you want delicious SANE recipes that make it a doddle to stay on track, and that part of staying on track is recipes that are easy and fast to make.  Check!

Then, we regularly hear the cry, “How can I get more veggies into my day?”  This book is the answer to that – 40 scrumptious SANE soups.  FORTY!!!!  The big 4-0!!!!

As the lovely Jonathan Bailor said in his foreword:

“Enjoying an abundance of non-starchy vegetables is the single most impactful action you can take to optimize your health. Enjoying these spectacular, simple, and savory soups is the most practical and enjoyable way to do that. I could not recommend anything more highly than I recommend “Eat Smarter! Soups”. It’s made living optimally infinitely easier and more enjoyable for me, and it will do the same for you.

Practicality, perfected. Nutrition, perfected. Taste, perfected. I’m so excited for “Eat Smarter! Soups”  to warm your soul while it shrinks your waist.”

SANE soups are magical.  Here’s why:

 

• They are wildly nutritious.  Veggies, veggies, and more veggies.  These recipes are all veggie all the time, although your taste buds won’t believe it.  There is no better way to get a ton of real, whole food goodness into your body.  We love non-starchy veggies!

 

• You can eat way more veggies in soup form before you get full than if they were in whole form.  If your goal is to cram more nutrition into your day, soups do it better than anything else; not to mention that with soups you don’t feel like you’ve been munching on veggies all day long.  You just feel like you’ve been slurping down deliciousness.

 

• They don’t look like vegetables.  If you – or those you feed – are not typically of the vegetable persuasion, this could well be the all-star game-changer.  Our minds are great trick players – if it tastes great and doesn’t look like something you thought you didn’t like, it’s a slam dunk.  Top tip: ask people if they like it before you tell ‘em what’s in it.

 

• They don’t taste like vegetables.  At least they don’t taste like the vegetables you’ve been used to.  With these soups you can eat things that you don’t like in real life.  Cabbage that tastes like tortilla soup?  Brussels Sprouts that taste like bacon?  Cauliflower that tastes like rich cheese sauce?  Yes!  Please!  And can I have seconds?

• They are simple and easy to make.  Simple recipes that come together in a heartbeat and are easy enough for kitchen novices.  Just learning your way around a kitchen?  Start with soups!

 

• They are low maintenance.  You can wander off and do something else while they are cooking.  Dishes?  Done.  Laundry folded?  Done.  Quick break with a cuppa?  Done.

 

• They can easily be made in large batches. It takes almost no more time to make 16 servings than it does 4.  Make a huge pot and enjoy effort-free meals for several days.

 

• They are freezable.  Make large batches, freeze in portion-sized containers, and you have instant meals at your fingertips; except these instant meals are healthier than just about anything else on earth that you could eat.

• They are easily portable.  Perfect for lunches, road trips or any time you need to have a tasty, nutritious meal on the go.

 

• They are fast and easy to reheat.  A pan on the stove top or a quick spin in the microwave, soups are reheated and ready to go in minutes.

 

• They are just as tasty cold as they are hot.  Well, most of them.  Some soups just need to be hot to make sense – like Chili – but others are equally as delicious cold.  Soups aren’t just for winter anymore.

 

• They only need a spoon to eat them.  Then, if finding a spoon is an issue, you can just drink them.

Most important of all – the ones with protein included in the recipe are perfect, complete SANE meals.  They have everything that you need in one simple, portable bowl – non-starchy veggies, protein, and healthy fats.  No wondering what to have with your protein.  No juggling several different dishes or sides.  No wondering if you got the balance right.  Just pack a bowl of this and you’re done.  For the recipes that don’t include protein, there’s a handy chart to help you decide what protein to toss in to make the perfect one-bowl meal.

And if you still aren’t sure whether you need this SANE and scrumptious soup cookbook in your life, here’s the note that The Bailornator posted on my Facebook wall a couple of weeks after I shared some of the recipes from the book with him.  When I say shared, what I really mean is that I made him soups from this book and took them down to the recording studio for a couple of weeks.  And then gave him the recipes because he said he could not possibly wait until the book was published to eat them again.  Bless him.

I admit when I saw those words on my Facebook timeline, I nearly fell out of my chair.  I can’t imagine anything more humbling than seeing the dude who spent 10 years of his life researching nutrition, the author of the brilliant Smarter Science of Slim, and, let’s face it, a guy who has 9% body-fat and a staggering physique, change his eating habits to eat as many of my recipes as possible.

So if you’re looking for a way to cram veggies into your day in the most delicious and nutritious way – here are 40 ways to do just that.

THANK YOU for all your support while I was missing.  THANK YOU for all the cheering and whooping from the sidelines.  THANK YOU for all the notes and posts and emails.  They meant the world to me while I was heads down working on this tome.

You dear, dear people are simply awesome.