.. Re: question re my attempt at soup

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...I am wanting to get healthier, so please feel free to make any

comments or suggestions to help me to improve and understand things.

It makes sense as you say it. I had a bag of salad mix and just figured I

would get more vegetables by putting it in.

In future I will put more vegetables in without the lettuce.

Thank you for letting me know about this.

Rusty

Re: question re my attempt at soup

The biggest thing I can see " wrong " (and I mean that in the spirit in which

you asked the question) is that it has lettuce in it. Lettuce is the ONE

food that you NEVER see canned, dried, frozen, and rarely cooked-that is

because it is so high in rapidly declining enzymes, that it simply doesn't

keep well. If you were to make your soup without the lettuce, you could

freeze leftovers in ice cube trays and transfer them to zipper freezer bags

for future use, adding your fresh lettuce in at the time you reprocess them.

Lettuces tend to get slimy very quickly, due to the rapid enzyme release, so

adding them at the moment of consumption is pretty much the only way to get

a good result. The " thickness " that comes as the lettuce breaks down, is

really just a sort of " slime " forming as the enzymes release-not harmful,

but not the most pleasant either. I grow tons of lettuces of various kinds

in my gardens, both indoors and out, and have tried many ways to " preserve "

them-with not-so-good results. I finally just started growing mostly

" cut-and-come-again " type lettuces, where I can cut off what I need AS I

need it, and the leaves will keep growing. You can very easily grow this

type of lettuce indoors on a sunny window ledge, or in something like an

aerogarden, so you always have it when you need it, without the waste.