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Eating low seems to be most of the McDougall plan for weightloss--with exception of making starches more of a player and heating higher fiber.

I make easy crock pot veggie soup daily in my small crock pot. Here’s what I do if you're interested:

I toss into crock pot at least a half cup mixed frozen veggies, some chopped mushroom and chopped onion, few T. uncooked rice or small diced potato, cup water, t. pre-mixed pizza seasoning from the bins, half cube low sodium vegan broth, T. frozen cube of tomato paste (see below).

I might also put in a little (T.) dulse dried seaweed for umami flavor and for iodine. If I have kale stems left over, I dice them and toss them in, and sometimes I might add some cilantro or asparagus spears from the freezer--whatever veggie is left over works--even kale leaves.

I use a silicon ice cube tray and put a small can of tomato paste into the cubes and freeze. When frozen, I pop out the cubes and put in zip-lock and refreeze. When I need a tomato base for soup or for Spanish rice, I just reach in and grab a cube or cubes.

I’ve been making crock pot soup almost daily for over 2 years. It works with lentils or any cooked beans, and it works with about any whole grain or root starch. The pizza seasoning is the best and cheapest trick I’ve found to flavor lots of vegan meals. Another trick is add a t. salt-free Mexican spices from the health section bins of my grocery. Works for soups and rice dishes.

Every journey begins with the first step.

I've been an off-again on-again vegan/vegetarian for about 8 years. I've lost lots of weight on both McDougall Plan and Fuhrman plan. But I've never kept it off.

Keeping better watch on oils, processed grains, and simple sugars is my objective this time around.

Hi Jellen! Welcome to the forum. There are lots of us in similar shoes and getting better every day. I have no doubt that sticking to the McDougall plan will give you a significant improvement to your health, it has for me

BTW, those soup tips are great! I never know what to do with those cans of tomato paste that I only use a few spoons out of...they usualy go bad before I use it all. Now I'll just start freezing them into cubes, great idea.

For the crockpot soup do you just set it on low for a few hours/all day? or do you time it?

Again Welcome!

Thanks geo, but I've actually been around since 2009, although I've not kept up my original journal thread.

Hi Jellen
It was nice to see you back
Will you start a fresh journal?
Take care