Costco Chicken Soup

QUESTION: 

Hi Shannon, 

I called Costco and got the nutritional info on the Costco "home made" version of chicken soup.  As per our conversation this morning during our PT session, I ate the soup last night for dinner, as did my children, and we all woke up feeling very full.  I usually wake up starving!  You had mentioned maybe it's the salt content.  It is very high, check it out... 

 

One-cup serving:

 

220 calories

6 g fat

980 mg sodium (no, not a typo)

24 g carbs

-1 g fiber

18 g protien

 

 

So the fat wasn't too bad, but I'm guessing the sodium wiped out all of our appetites as you suggested.  

 

Thanks-

Amy

ANSWER:

Wow!  Not surprised I have to say.  The salt is definitely a major factor.  I would also bet that you all had more than 1 cup, that's not much soup.  Your average can of soup is 2 cups.  So double everything on that label.  If you're taking in 1500 cal/day and your aiming for 20% of your calories from fat, that's 33 fat grams for the day.  So 12g of fat is a little over 1/3 of your fat grams for the day.  And similarly, you protein goals would be about 75g/day and 2 cups of this soup is 36, almost half the protein you need for one day.  So lots of reasons - salt, protein, fat... it all attributed.  

Costco is good for buying healthy stuff in bulk, but stay away from their home-made goods like those monster sized muffins - yikes! 

 Shannon