Weight Watchers Easy Soup Recipes: 101 Delicious, Nutritious, Low Budget, Mouthwatering, Ultimate Weight Loss Cookbook

In addition to this, eating soup has an extra benefit from a weight and fluid retention perspective; soups that have a base of leeks, onions and celery are also particularly high in the mineral potassium. As potassium helps to bind excess sodium, it helps to rid the body of excess fluid.

Soup can be a simple meal addition – a way to ensure that the family gets all of their vegetables and nutrition; a filling afternoon snack or an entire lunch or light evening meal, especially when beans, potato or sweet potato are the base providing heavier carbs as well as chicken, lean sausage or some mincemeat for protein.