Chicken noodle soup

(glenn myatt) #1

can you eat canned chicken noodle soup and remove the noodles or does the carbs come out of the noodles and into the soup broth. same with a restaurant , can i order the soup and just remove the noodles ?

(Little Miss Scare-All) #2

At a restaurant I’d be careful, sometimes the broth is thickened with a flour-based roux.

(Carl Keller) #3

The only soup I might trust in a restaurant is vegetable soup or chicken vegetable soup. And canned soup, even if showing as low carb on the label, is likely to have ingredients you are better off not having.

That’s not to say you won’t stay in nutritional ketosis if you eat those things but just realize that they won’t do much to achieve satiety.

(Bob M) #4

I don’t even trust those. I had hot and sour soup that (along with seafood salad) caused my blood sugar to fly through the roof, as evidenced by my continuous glucose monitory.

I will sometimes eat cream-based soups at restaurants, but I wouldn’t doubt those were bad too. Sometimes, I like a soup though.

#5

I have been making a “faux pho,” with bone broth mixed with a seasoning cube. I add in some vegetables and a protein, then add in enoki mushrooms that substitute well for noodles.

I have had reasonably good luck ordering hot and sour soup without added cornstarch.

#6

When I want soup I use one of the Wyler’s beef or chicken broth cubes. The beef has 0 carbs and the chicken has 1 carb in a large coffee cup type serving.

There are a few undesirable ingredients but, hey, 0 to 1 carb is not going to knock you out of Keto and it surely has not stopped my weight loss. And you’re not drinking a quart of it either.

I use these mugs of soup often while fasting in place of my coffee. Works for me and fills me up for several hours. By the way, I add a tiny bit of zero carb spices like celery salt, garlic powder and red pepper flakes to zest it up. Plenty of salt in them so that helps on a fast.

Protein is nonexistent as well.