A question for the vegetarian ladies.
Most of my life I've been a veg-a-phobe, but I have replaced a LOT of meat in my diet with a LOT more vegetables since my major lifestyle change. All of a sudden I crave them...and the thought of a steak kind of freaks me out now...ewwww...But my question relates to soup.
A bunch of people from work had a retirement dinner for someone last night and trying to stay on plan, I ordered the split pea soup for an entree. And it was SO...FREAKING...GOOD. I never liked peas and all of a sudden I was like whoa. Divine bowl of mushy green stuff.
I checked calorie king and fit day, and I'm wondering is split pea soup actually healthy? Can something as healthy and low fat as split peas actually taste that good? Fit day said two cups of it was like 330 calories and 5.9 grams of fat. I thought to myself that's impossible. Nothing can taste that good and be that good for you.
Is there some way of preparing the soup that restaurants use like throwing lard in it or something? I'm just curious. If not, I'm ordering split peas every time I go out for the rest of my life.