It's not Grandma's Chicken soup, but......

Today I found health advice down the aisle of Trader Joe's. I was doing some shopping when an older woman noticed I had put some frozen Chicken Won Ton Soup into my cart.  She asked me if I knew how much sodium was in that soup, and I told her I hadn't looked.  I got that "shame on you" look and then a helpful suggestion that I put it back and she would guide me on how to make a much healthier soup.

So, being the health conscious person that I am (no, not really, I just didn't want to hurt her feelings) I proceeded to follow her around the store.


I have to say after just having a bowl of "Linda's Soup" that it was quite good.



I thanked her in the store, and told her she should give health advice out. Perhaps, write a blog. She told me she doesn't use computers or email.  She likes to communicate the old fashion way.  She has a point. People have lost the ability to go up to strangers and give them recipes!!!!!

Anyway, here is the breakdown of my new soup. It has a total of 755 calories and 4100mg of sodium. It makes approximately 8 servings so that works out to about 95 calories and 513mg of sodium in each bowl. Not too bad considering the Chicken Won Ton soup I was going to eat had over 1000mg of sodium.  The cost to make the soup was $9.26 which works out to around $1.16 per serving.

So, since Linda doesn't communicate in the new "tech way" I thought I would write a blog about her.

I wonder what I will find the next time I visit Trader Joe's.  I always thought they had a nice friendly and caring environment. That was just proven more so today.

Here's to health and not being afraid to speak with strangers!

Sylvia