Pumpkin Apple Soup

It's icky and raining today, so I thought I would share with you the fabulous soup I cooked last night. It sounds so good, smells so good, looks so good and tastes so good. So is it still GAPS Diet approved for me? ABSOLUTELY! (Side Note: this is a version of Dr. Campbell-McBride's "Pumpkin Apple Macadamia Soup)

Ingredients

1. Olive Oil
2. 1 tsp grated ginger
3. 1 sm onion, minced
4. 3 cups fresh or pureed, cubed pumpkin
5. 1 sm apple chopped
6. 3 cups homemade vegetable stock OR chicken stock (Side Note: YES, I absolutely use my own, homemade stock! There are too many additives and sodium in store bought broth! It's also cheaper to make your own!)
   
7. 1 tsp cinnamon
   

 Directions

1. Cover bottom of a heavy pan with olive oil. Add the ginger and onion.
2. Saute for 3 minutes until browned.
3. Add the pumpkin and apple, and cook 2 to 3 minutes.
4. Pour in the stock.
5. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes until the pumpkin and apple are soft.
6. Add cinnamon. 
7. Transfer ingredients to a blender and process until smooth.
8. Serve in bowls and top with extra cinnamon, if desired!
   

Enjoy!

Soup

Day 81.

I have broken my "food-rut," even if for just one meal. Leah gave to me half of the idea. I provided myself with the other half.

It's my own soup. A simple soup. I'll just call it Sarah Kay Hoffman's Simple Soup. Here are the ingredients:

• (Steamed) Cucumber, yellow tie squash, carrots, zucchini
  
• Organic, Low Sodium Chicken Broth
• Quinoa
• Lean turkey meat + onion
• Pinch of sea salt + a pinch of cayenne pepper
  

That's all. (It looks a little crazy, but it tastes so great!)



My stomach was not very good again today. Tonight it was definitely not good. It felt like it was rotting. It felt like it used to when I ate a lot of dairy. My mouth was also not pleasant again today. It increased throughout the day to arrive at a 6/7 or 7/8. I had to shift my attention several times throughout the day today to make me think only positive thoughts. It worked!

Here was my day:

Breakfast #1 (Pre-workout)

• 1/4 Fruit Fusion
• Tiny Coffee + Unsweetened Rice Milk
  

Breakfast (Post-workout)

• Rice & Shine + Unsweetened Rice Milk+ Nutribiotic Vanilla Rice Protein Powder
• 1/4 Fruit Fusion
  
• 1/2 c. coffee + unsweetened rice milk + stevia
  

Snack

• Nutribiotic Vanilla Rice Protein Powder with Unsweetened Rice Milk, Coconut Milk Light, Flax, chlorella and Stevia

Lunch

• (Steamed) Carrots, squash, zucchini, cucumber, spinach + garlic
  
• (tiny) Baby Organic Spinach
• 1/2 Fruit Fusion
• Green Tea
  

Snack

• Banana
• Pineapple, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, strawberry
  

Dinner

• (Steamed) Carrots, squash, zucchini, cucumber, spinach + garlic
  
• Fish oil + spirulina + 1 Tbsp flax a little sea salt
• Sarah Kay Hoffman's Simple Soup.
  
• 1/2 c. unsweetened applesauce