LOW SALT AND LOW FAT CHICKEN
SOUP
 
1 tbsp. onion, chopped
4 celery stalks, diced
4 pkg. low salt chicken bouillon
4 cans Swanson's chicken broth
3 cans water
1 lb. bag carrots, sliced (1/2 in. slices)
2 lb. cooked chicken breast (no fat or skin)
2 tbsp. fresh parsley
1/8 tsp. pepper
1 tbsp. butter
1 c. frozen mixed vegetables

Put butter and onion in 4 quart pot, saute until tender (5 minutes). Add water and chicken bouillon, bring to a boil. Add broth, chicken, celery, parsley, pepper and boil 1/2 hour. Add carrots and boil 20 minutes. Then add frozen vegetables and cook 20 minutes more on boil.

Total cooking time 1 hour. Serves 6.

recipe reviews
Low Salt and Low Fat Chicken Soup
 #108077
 Ohthatpaula (New York) says:
Low fat, yes. Low Salt... a big fat Pants-on-Fire NO! Swanson's Chicken Broth has 840mg of Sodium in 8 ounces (a can contains 14.5 oz) Do the math: 4 cans X 14.5 = 58 ounces. 58 divided by 8 = 7.25 (how many 8 ounce cups are in four cans of broth). Now multiply 7.25 by 840 (milligrams in an 8 ounce portion of broth) equals 6,090 mgs of sodium in four cans of broth. We've only just begun. Add to three day supply (based on a 2000mg daily allowance) of sodium the following ingredients. Celery has 35mg salt in an average sized stalk. 1 tbsp of butter has anywhere between 50 - 115 mg of salt. Knorr reduced sodium chicken broth has 1740mg of sodium in one pgk/cube. Yes that is the sodium content of their so-called REDUCED sodium broth. The recipe calls for 4 pgks/cubes. 4x1740 = 6,960 mgs of sodium. I won't go any further analyzing sodium content of other ingredients, we have scaled Mt. Salt. More with this "low sodium recipe". Just adding the two broth related ingredients together, 6,090 6,960 equals 13,050 mgs of sodium. divide that by 6 servings gives you a bowl of 2,175mgs of sodium! Hungry much? Those of us who are truly knowledgeable about what low-sodium diets are really about. Would be savvy enough to make this a low-sodium dish. However.. for novices, this recipe is completely misleading!
 #118306
 Ineedafix (Kansas) says:
Amen!! To the comment from the new yorker, my husband is now on a low sodium diet, it is very, very challenging and this recipe is not low sodium!!

 

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