I told you before about my affinity for vegetarian soup recipes because they tend to also be low fat soup recipes, which can be pretty healthy.

Yesterday, knowing that I would have no time in the evening to make dinner, I pulled out my trusty slow cooker (the best kept secret to good parenting!) and one of my favorite cookbooks that is full of excellent vegetarian slow cooker recipes - Fresh From the Vegetarian Slow Cooker, and got to work.

For some reason, I was feeling a little wild and crazy and decided to try something new. My family is pretty vegetable-ly adventurous and there was a little recipe for white bean and cabbage soup that was beckoning. Hmmm…you see where this is headed.

No one here is a big fan of white beans or cabbage. Separately, I might be able to disguise them enough to trick the troops into a favorable review. But together..? However, I did have both white beans and cabbage on hand this particular day.

Well as the D-hour approached I was almost convinced that my vegetarian soup recipes experiment would be a success - it did smell good. And surprisingly everyone tried it without any coercion. But it really did fall short of yum, even I had to admit that. Tactfully, I was being told that this vegetarian soup recipe wasn’t going to cut it - “It’s really good but I’m not hungry…can I have dessert?” or a more direct “I don’t really like this soup.”

But in the background what did I hear? Clink, clink, clink. The musical sound of spoon against bowl. My son, the “ketchup is a vegetable, isn’t it?” son, the one who won’t try anything if it is any shade of green (candy aisle items, excluded), was ravenously consuming bowl after bowl - “This soup is delicious, mom!” - “This is the best soup ever!”. We all stared at him in amazement. Stranger things have happened, I suppose.

I wonder which of the low fat soup recipes I will have to try for dinner tonight?