RECIPE: Easy Soup Mirepoix

What is Mirepoix? I had been hearing this for years and never knew what it was. The word Mirepoix is French and is pronounced like "mirra-pwa". It is a mixture of chopped carrots, onions and celery that is mainly used to flavor soups, sauces and stocks.

You can use this simple mixture to flavor any type of meat and soup base. It is easy to make and remember in addition to being nutritious. Oftentimes, I add broth, garlic, ginger and butter in my mixture.

Lose weight with a weekend soup

If you're like me, you eat great during the week but go CRAZY once the weekend comes around.  Before switching to a Paleo lifestyle, this is exactly what I used to do for a long time. Then, I realized that eating great 5 days and not on 2 days was doing me more harm than good.  For as much progress that I made during the week, having anything (which allowed me to just completely overindulge in bad choices) on the weekend was just too hard to recover from. In this post, I will discuss a great way to lose weight by eating soup on the weekends.

How I Kicked My Salt Habit

I have a notorious salt habit. My brother and I grew up as latch key kids with working parents. After school, we would come home to have bologna sandwiches or salty french fries with our favorite Hi-C fruit juice or a sugary soda. It was a way of life for us. I was also a couch potato but was active enough to keep my weight stabilized. I don't blame my parents because they were just hard working folks that meant well by us. When my mother came home, she always cooked a healthy dinner for us kids. She could have served us TV dinners but as tired as she was, she slaved over a stove and made us dinners with plenty of veggies. It was just our lunches that were a total disaster.

As I got older and more health conscious I began to really detest some of the unhealthy habits I grew up on. So, I set out to change them on my own - one at a time. One of my hardest habits to kick was the salt habit. When I tried going "cold turkey", I would always go back. So, I had to develop ways to "ease" the salty foods out of my system and my diet for good.

Here are some of the successful strategies that have helped me: