{"id":25,"date":"2007-04-02T18:14:17","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T18:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/02\/the-zone-diet-recipe-green-and-blue-soup\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T18:16:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T18:16:49","slug":"the-zone-diet-recipe-green-and-blue-soup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/02\/the-zone-diet-recipe-green-and-blue-soup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zone Diet Recipe &#8211; Green and Blue Soup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s meal on the zone diet: Green and Blue soup, so called as it consists of only green vegs and blue cheese (mostly).  This is a 10 block family meal on the Zone diet plan, which you then serve up appropriately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 cups of Leeks &#8211; 4 Carbs<\/li>\n<li>12 spears of Asparagus &#8211; 1C<\/li>\n<li>2 2\/3 cups courgette (zuchini) &#8211; 2C<\/li>\n<li>1 1\/4 cup of Green Beans &#8211; 1C<\/li>\n<li>4 cups of Broccoli -2C<\/li>\n<li>10oz Blue Cheese &#8211; 10 Protein<\/li>\n<li>3 1\/3 tsps Olive Oil &#8211; 10 Fat<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Instructions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simply chop and fry off the veg in the olive oil.<\/li>\n<li>Add 1-2 pints of chicken stock (or any stock or just boiling water, adjust amount to personal preference).<\/li>\n<li>Simmer for 20 mins then liquefy.<\/li>\n<li>Grate the cheese and mix in till it melts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Optional Extras:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Herbs.<\/li>\n<li>Garlic.<\/li>\n<li>Wholegrain Mustard .<\/li>\n<li>Ground Pepper to taste.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Variations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduce \/ remove the olive oil to allow for single cream to be added at the end (replaces the 10 blocks of Fat).<\/li>\n<li>In its current guise this is a vegetarian zone diet recipe, but you could reduce some cheese and replace with some bacon.<\/li>\n<li>Any veg could be substituted for something else if desired.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The thing I find with zone diet recipes, is it&#8217;s actually tricky to get enough favourable carbs in a meal without bulking it up too much.  This zone recipe makes a lot of soup for 10 blocks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s meal on the zone diet: Green and Blue soup, so called as it consists of only green vegs and blue cheese (mostly). This is a 10 block family meal on the Zone diet plan, which you then serve up appropriately: 4 cups of Leeks &#8211; 4 Carbs 12 spears of Asparagus &#8211; 1C 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-the-zone-diet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}