Pumpkin Soup
If you can’t view TikTok Video – Please see below for original.
Here on the southern tip of Vancouver Island Fall comes early. This year I noticed it began to shift in the last few days of July! It starts with the foggy haze rolling in during the early hours. For some somatic dominant experiences, this may mean a shift in the focus of attention on food choices that came earlier this year. I have observed that somatic experiencers are inherently more naturally in tune with the shifts in nature. In this little TikTok video clip, the food of choice was a can of pure pumpkin.
Pumpkin is low in calories, heart-friendly and great nutrition. Adding spices like ginger and cinnamon becomes a good choice for watching weight. Both spices are well known for curbing appetite and increasing the body’s metabolic rate to speed up digestion. Cayenne is a well-known spice to increases inner heat and is good for rolling into fall.
The recipe for pumpkin soup using canned pumpkin makes it quick and easy to make. The ingredients are probably ones already in the pantry that include; onions and garlic, plus spices and maple syrup. The recipe called for heavy cream which this writer doesn’t use or have on hand. Many will though. A couple of ingredients this writer added though were mushrooms, nutritional yeast and rice dream. The rice milk was a substitute for the heavy cream and won’t be used in future. It isn’t necessary.
This is a lovely soup for the fall and can be added to any meal or be the center of a meal. It’s seasonal and aligns with the current harvest in nature north of the equator. Along the southern tip of Vancouver Island, it is almost time to see fields of pumpkins emerging as the foliage dies back that once hid them.
In this post, the focus is on the seasonal shift in eating patterns that reflects the cultivating of awareness in the Awareness through Eating patterns here @insideawareness. There is also the dynamics of current food costs. This writer has stopped buying soup at the market due to a reaction to the prices. Pre-covid lockdown cans of soup that were a buck are now $4.00 or more. Each can of soup is being sold as a designer brand however they aren’t. This can of pumpkin was the cost of a can of soup and is far healthier meeting more functional needs in the alignment of body, brain and mind functions that generate emotional responses. This recipe is easy and fast and warms the heart knowing it is packed with ingredients that increase health and wellbeing.
Canned pumpkin on Amazon ranges in price from our local markets. One may want to invest time into getting a raw pumpkin, however there is the time and effort that would go into processing it. The consolation is that it makes more soup that can spread over 2 or 4 meals depending on the number of people. The link to Amazon is below. If you come across more economical pricing, do let us know here @insideawareness – contact. What has been of value for this writer to get from Amazon are Pumpkin Seeds. They are usually cheaper and fresher. Once again if you have insight on a cheaper source than you find fresh drop us a line or connect on social media. YuPik is the brand and size I normally choose.
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