| Would you say there are 10,000 different chicken soup | | | | 2,000mg (for the entire pot)! Keep in mind, that's just |
| recipes out there? Maybe more? I always thought my | | | | the broth. You can get into serious trouble by adding |
| mom made the best chicken soup, but little did I know | | | | high-sodium, high-fat ingredients to that broth. Not with |
| she made the deadliest chicken soup. It tasted great, | | | | my recommendation! Let's have a look: |
| but it was killing me as a young boy- and now I know | | | | Heart Healthy Mexican Chicken Soup: |
| to shy away from it because of my experience in | | | | First, use NO SODIUM chicken broth, mixed with broth |
| creating healthy recipes and living a life of making | | | | that is REDUCED SODIUM- you will never tell the |
| healthy food choices. | | | | difference, and you are saving thousands of mg of |
| Mom's soup was made with chicken broth that | | | | sodium. I work off the 3 to 1 ratio (3 no sodium for 1 |
| amounted to nearly 9,000mg of sodium (for an entire | | | | reduced sodium). |
| pot). My healthy recommendation comes in at about | | | | |