The famous zero point Garden Vegetable Soup from Weight Watchers. Quick to make with minimal chopping. Uses inexpensive and easy-to-find fresh and frozen vegetables.
Saturdays: They're my favorite day to cook, especially in winter. Most Saturdays, you'll find soup simmering on the stove here, either for supper or the week ahead. Today was no exception. This Garden Vegetable Soup is famous in Weight Watchers circles. To my mind, it deserves fame in wider circles for it's easy, it's delicious, it's healthful. There's some chopping involved but in a rush, frozen vegetables would be perfectly acceptable.2007: I just noticed! This Weight Watchers Zero Points Garden Vegetable Soup is quite similar to a one-point vegetable soup recipe published in 2003 in Kitchen Parade, my food column. I call it Low-Fat Vegetable Soup. Be sure to check out Kitchen Parade recipes, where all the recipes are organized by Weight Watchers points.
2008: Weight Watchers just released brand-new recipes for Zero Points Soup. Do try the Weight Watchers Mexican Zero Points Soup (it's got zing!) and the Weight Watchers Asian Zero Points Soup (it feels light too!) and the Weight Watchers Italian Zero Points Soup (it's milder!).
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WEIGHT WATCHERS ZERO POINTS GARDEN VEGETABLE SOUP RECIPE
Hands-on time: 20 minutes
Time to table: 1 1/4 hour
Makes 9 cups
Time to table: 1 1/4 hour
Makes 9 cups
6 cups broth (today I used Light Vegetable Stock)
Cooking spray
2 carrots, peeled and diced
1 large onion, diced
4 teaspoons garlic (from a jar or substitute four cloves minced garlic)
1/2 cabbage, chopped (or use a bag of slaw, the biggest chunks you can find vs the fine, don't skip the cabbage for it somehow makes the soup)
1/2 pound frozen green beans
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 large zucchini, diced
Bring the broth to a boil in the microwave. (This is a time-saving tip that can be skipped if there's no hurry.)
Spray a Dutch oven with cooking spray and heat on MEDIUM HIGH. Add the carrots, onion and garlic and cook for about 5 minutes. Add all the remaining ingredients EXCEPT the zucchini and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce the heat to MEDIUM and simmer for about 15 minutes or until the beans are tender. Add the zucchini and cook until the zucchini are tender. Serve and enjoy!
KITCHEN NOTES
Zero point soups are easy to make without a recipe. Just cook a pile of non-starchy vegetables in 6 cups of a non-fat broth. It's even easy to convert one-point soups to zero-point soups.
MORE VEGETABLE RECIPES & RESOURCES
~ Peasant Cabbage Tomato Soup ~
~ Buttermilk Garlic Salad Dressing ~
~ Smoked Scallops with Zucchini Ribbons ~
~ more zero-point and one-point recipes ~
~ Weight Watchers points for vegetables ~
~ low-carb vegetable recipes ~
~ carbs in vegetables ~
~ Alphabet of Vegetables ~
~ quick vegetable recipes ~
~ Peasant Cabbage Tomato Soup ~
~ Buttermilk Garlic Salad Dressing ~
~ Smoked Scallops with Zucchini Ribbons ~
~ more zero-point and one-point recipes ~
~ Weight Watchers points for vegetables ~
~ low-carb vegetable recipes ~
~ carbs in vegetables ~
~ Alphabet of Vegetables ~
~ quick vegetable recipes ~
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I just sent the link to this post to Sam at Becks & Posh. You may or may not know that she recently joined WW and is blogging all about it. Great to see that you have all kinds of yummy WW recipes already on file. Should save her some time in the kitchen! : )
Thanks for all the great recipes.
--Susan
The reason why it's zero points is that these particular veggies do have calories...but with these veggies your body burns more calories digesting them than are in them. Voila! You probably knew that...but I thought I'd clarify, having been a WW instructor at one time. You could add any summer squash to the soup, or asparagus, mushrooms...those are all the zeros too.
Any information would be wonderful.
Thank You
I've long been a Veggie Venture fan, but I had not noticed the WW recipes until recently when I joined the plan. Your recipes are a great help to me!
I quickly joined to have emails sent. I look forward to your wonderful recipes.
Thanks so much!! I am THRILLED to have found your site.
the first time I made this I looked at the sodium listed on the label of "regular" fat free broth and about fainted. get low fat AND low sodium for sure.
also you can change up the spices - I like parsley better than basil and thyme.
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