Cabbage soup recipe variations make for interesting eating and not boredom. Cabbage is a cool weather crop and there's no better time than now to stir up your own tasty version.
Soup can be bland, but there's no reason it has to be. Spices and some creative variation turns cabbage into gourmet fare. Many traditional diets around the world use cabbage as a staple. Prepared properly, it's gourmet peasant eating at it's finest.
The long-time popular cabbage soup diet includes the soup as a major part of the eating plan. This is just a short-term plan to drop a few pounds fast. Lose ten pounds in a week is the claim. It's more than just eating soup though. You eat different foods each day for the seven days. Then the soup becomes a filler that you can eat whenever you like.