Weight Watchers Zero Points Garden Vegetable Soup ♥

Weight Watchers Zero Points Garden Vegetable Soup ♥ AVeggieVenture.com, WW’s famous original soup, quick to make, sure to satisfy. Vegan. Low Carb. Gluten Free. Whole 30.
The famous zero point Garden Vegetable Soup from Weight Watchers. It's quick to make with minimal chopping, sure to satisfy. This WW no point soup uses a mix of inexpensive and easy-to-find fresh and frozen vegetables. If you're looking to slim down, reset your body's expectations after a period of too-much or too-rich food, make this fresh soup your starting gate.

Real Food, Fresh & Flexible. Year-Round Kitchen Staple. Great for Meal Prep. Low Carb. Low Fat. Weeknight Easy. Weight Watchers Friendly. Not just vegan, Vegan Done Real. Naturally Gluten Free. Whole30 Friendly.


Saturdays: They're my favorite day to cook, especially in winter. Most Saturdays, you'll find soup simmering on my stove, either for supper or the week ahead. This Garden Vegetable Soup is famous in Weight Watchers circles. To my mind, it deserves fame in wider circles for it's easy, it's delicious, it's healthful. There's some chopping involved but in a rush, frozen vegetables are perfectly acceptable. Saturdays, you'll find it on my stove.

Many Zero Point Soup Recipes from Weight Watchers

Weight Watchers Garden Vegetable Zero Points Soup (the original, recipe below)
Weight Watchers Mexican Zero Points Soup (it's got zing!)
Weight Watchers Asian Zero Points Soup (it feels light too!)
Weight Watchers Italian Zero Points Soup (it's milder!)
Weight Watchers Fresh Vegetable Soup (best made a day ahead!)

My Own Variations

How to Make Homemade Vegetable Soup My Master Recipe
Low-Fat Vegetable Soup A Huge Batch
How to Convert One-Point Soup Recipes to Zero-Point Soup Recipes An Easy Technique

Your WW Soup Variations!

So many readers make "their own" version of this soup. They're in the comments below, such good ideas, thank you! (I'll summarize for you here, because, really, who has time to wade through blog comments?) I'd love to know how you make the WW Garden Vegetable Soup, what you add or change to make this soup fit your taste and kitchen? Comments welcome! Help me build out this list of improvements and adaptations!

More zero-point vegetables: summer squash, asparagus or mushrooms, even butternut squash
Cabbage substitutions: fresh spinach
Extra seasoning: bay leaf, black pepper
Extra tomato: tomato paste, 1/2 cup salsa
Good stock: homemade chicken stock, packets of chicken stock base
Added protein: cooked chicken breast and other leftover meats, kidney beans

More Weight Watchers Resources

How to Eat More Vegetables For Everyone, Not Just Weight Watchers
Vegetable Recipes for Weight Watchers Vegetable Recipes, Zero, One and Two Point Recipes
Weight Watchers Points for Vegetables Updated for myWW
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Weight Watchers Zero Points Garden Vegetable Soup ♥ AVeggieVenture.com, WW’s famous original soup, quick to make, sure to satisfy. Vegan. Low Carb. Gluten Free. Whole 30.

Compliments!

"... a tremendous hit! " ~ SusanV
"... very tasty!" ~ ElectricVegan
"... even my husband loved it! " ~ Anonymous
"... with the rest of the tomato paste, pepper and about a 1/2 cup of salsa, YUM!" ~ Anonymous
"... took this recipe to a girls weekend at the lake and they loved it." ~ Anonymous
"... loved it so much, I had it for lunch and dinner." ~ GramaMolly
"... made the house smell delicious " ~ Michelle
"... this is a great recipe and well worth a try!!" ~ Anonymous





WEIGHT WATCHERS ZERO POINTS GARDEN VEGETABLE SOUP RECIPE

Hands-on time: 20 minutes
Time to table: 1 1/4 hour
Makes 9 cups

6 cups vegetable stock

Cooking spray
2 carrots, peeled and diced
1 large onion, diced
4 teaspoons garlic, minced
1/2 cabbage, chopped
1/2 pound frozen green beans
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon kosher salt plus more to taste

1 large zucchini, diced

Bring the broth to a boil in the microwave. (This is a time-saving tip that can be skipped if there's no hurry.)

Spray a Dutch oven with cooking spray and heat on MEDIUM HIGH. Add the carrots, onion and garlic and cook for about 5 minutes. Add all the remaining ingredients EXCEPT the zucchini and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce the heat to MEDIUM and simmer for about 15 minutes or until the beans are tender. Add the zucchini and cook until the zucchini is tender. Serve and enjoy!

ALANNA'S TIPS & KITCHEN NOTES
BROTH Canned broth or bouillon granules work fine but are quite salty. For more freshness, consider using Homemade Vegetable Bouillon or Light Vegetable Stock or for meat eaters, No-Big-Deal Homemade Chicken Stock. With the far-less-salty homemade stock, you'll likely want to be liberal when adding salt.
GARLIC Use garlic from a jar or substitute about four cloves minced garlic.
CABBAGE Fresh cabbage is best but you can use a bag of pre-cut slaw, just look for the biggest chunks you can find versus the fine angel-hair slaw. Don't skip the cabbage, somehow it makes the soup.
UNDERCOOK? If you're making this soup ahead of time on the weekend, say, to to reheat during the week, consider undercooking the cabbage, green beans and zucchini.



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One Pot for Soup, For Life

In my kitchen, three pots and pans get used nearly every day. A skillet. A saucepan. A Dutch oven. For soup, let's talk Dutch ovens. A Dutch oven is a large, sturdy pot so suited for soups, stews, chilis, even large roasts. The high-end versions are super pricey but with care, one pot will last a lifetime. And good news, especially on either side of Christmas, TJMaxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods often have a few pots for sale. Plus, the classic pots are so popular, other companies now produce more affordable pots.

For beauty, there's nothing classier than an enameled cast iron Dutch oven from Le Creuset, that's the one in my photo at the top of this page. That red color is so pretty, even when I'm not cooking, I love to leave the pot on the stove for inspiration! What color would hang out in your kitchen? So many choices!



Still Hungry?


More Zero-Point Recipes

~ Vegan Chickpea Gumbo ~
~ Peasant Cabbage Tomato Soup ~
~ Slow Cooker Vegetarian Lentil Sloppy Joes ~
~ more Weight Watchers vegetable recipes ~
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~ Shakshuka (Eggs Nested in Summer Vegetables) ~
~ Quinoa & Black Bean Salad ~
~ Scandinavian Split-Pea Soup ~
~ Squash & Carrot Stew ~
~ more Weight Watchers recipes ~
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Comments

  1. Hi Alanna,
    I just sent the link to this post to Sam at Becks & Posh. You may or may not know that she recently joined WW and is blogging all about it. Great to see that you have all kinds of yummy WW recipes already on file. Should save her some time in the kitchen! : )

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  2. Hi Alanna--I made this last night, and it was a tremendous hit! I'm about to write about it in my blog, so check there later today.
    Thanks for all the great recipes.
    --Susan

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  3. Hi Alanna...odd for me to write that since it's my name with an added "n"...but I digress...

    The reason why it's zero points is that these particular veggies do have calories...but with these veggies your body burns more calories digesting them than are in them. Voila! You probably knew that...but I thought I'd clarify, having been a WW instructor at one time. You could add any summer squash to the soup, or asparagus, mushrooms...those are all the zeros too.

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  4. How much weight have you lost on this Vegetable soup. I plan to by the stuff tonight, but I need to know if this is all you have at.
    Any information would be wonderful.
    Thank You

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  5. Hi ShopGirl ~ Weight Watchers doesn't work like fad diets (say the Cabbage Soup Diet) where you eat only one thing. So this soup would be one option in a complete balanced menu. If you're looking to lose weight, I do encourage you to find a local Weight Watchers location and join. That way, you can re-learn how to think about 'what' and 'how much' you eat to lose and then maintain a healthy weight. Good luck!

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  6. Weight Watchers just published three new variants on their veggie soup just this week! There an Asian variant, a Mexican one, and I think an Italian :-)


    I've long been a Veggie Venture fan, but I had not noticed the WW recipes until recently when I joined the plan. Your recipes are a great help to me!

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  7. be care full on the soup! I gained a pound yesterday eating it!!!!

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  8. Are you sure it was that, Anonymous? :-) Even if you ate the whole pot, it's only 10 points!

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  9. This was very tasty! Thanks a lot. I added a bay leaf, but that's the only change I made.

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  10. Yummy, I cooked it last night, even my husband loved it! Thank you!

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  11. Alanna, What a great web site. I happened upon it by accident. I'm a life timer with Weight Watchers but lost my garden vegetable soup recipe. (I need to drop about a pound.) I Googled "WW garden veg soup recipe" and got your site. How lucky I am.

    I quickly joined to have emails sent. I look forward to your wonderful recipes.

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  12. AnonymousJuly 14, 2008

    I stumbled onto your site this morning looking for the Weight Watchers 0 point soup:) We are a mostly healthy eating family, always looking for new vegetable recipes. The addition of your Weight Watchers Point Values to familiar and new favorites will assist me as a try to get back into my skinny(er) summer clothes. Thanks so much!! Your references and visuals of the Kirkwood Farmer's Market especially made me smile, as it's not far from my Glendale home:)

    Thanks so much!! I am THRILLED to have found your site.

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  13. AnonymousJuly 27, 2008

    Mad this recipe before as this is my second go-round with WW. I didn't care for it much last time, and this time wasn't much different....until I added: the rest of the (sm) can of tomato paste, pepper, and about a 1/2 cup of salsa. YUM!

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  14. Where did the 701 mg of sodium come from in only 1 cup of soup!? The broth certainly can't have THAT much sodium!

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  15. Hmm. I've since switched systems for nutrition analysis but my guess is that the sodium count comes from the selected vegetable/chicken broth. THAT said, salt is an important component of making these soups taste good --

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  16. I want to like this soup, I really do... but for me it has a harsh, almost metallic aftertaste. I tried the 1 point version from Alanna's sister, and to me it was about the same. I've tried using home-made chicken broth rather than canned, fresh tomatoes rather than the paste...any suggestions?

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  17. Hi ACR, you've given it a game try, for sure. Maybe this just isn't your recipe? Try the Low-Fat Vegetable Soup from Kitchen Parade, I think it has more nuance and texture.

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  18. blogkitten, believe it or not...
    the first time I made this I looked at the sodium listed on the label of "regular" fat free broth and about fainted. get low fat AND low sodium for sure.

    also you can change up the spices - I like parsley better than basil and thyme.

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  19. Thank you Alanna for the veggie soup.. I am a lifetime Weight Watcher. I have gained about 10 pounds and plan to find my way back to my goal weight by using high fiber veggies.. I remember the lost 'Cabbage Soup' recipe and always loved it. Am just the luckiest gal in the world to, quite by accident,jdw find your site. My pot is on the stove already cooking.

    Flagirl

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  20. Just took this recipe to a girls weekend at the lake and they loved it. I did use chicken stock instead of Veg. but that was the only change. I'm making it again and adding a little cut up chicken to make it more of a meal for my husband. It's certainly healthier than what we usually have for dinner.

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  21. I'm confused. About the "Weight Watchers Zero Points Garden Vegetable Soup", why is it that some people are talking about it being zero points and others are talking about it being 10 points for the pot? At the end of the receipe it says it's one point. Please clarify.

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  22. Susan ~ Hi, you are maybe new to Weight Watchers? If so, welcome, at first all the point business is a little confusing.

    First, it's important to know that all nutrition estimates just that, estimates. They are MUCH better than no information at all but they are not exact, they're just good guesses.

    Have you seen the studies that look at packaged food and compared the actual nutrition of a particular dish (doing the measurements in a scientific lab) versus the nutrition label: they're often way off, both directions.

    The same thing is true at home. Let's say your onion is a little bigger, your carrots a little smaller, your cabbage a little bigger, etc. Let's say your bowl holds 1.1 cups. All these things will make a difference.

    That's one set of differences. The other is a mathematical question, how the source numbers are calculated/used and how they're rounded. I'm in the middle of auditing the Weight Watchers points here on my two websites and am finding a point difference on some recipes, both up and down, depending if I rounded the source nutrition information or if I didn't. In addition, some WW calculators seem to always round down (up to about .8) and that, I think, is deceiving so I'm fixing them.

    Another thing that makes a difference is how big your portion sizes are. That's why some times people will make a recipe and then say the "whole recipe" is so-many points, then they divide it among however many servings they decide it is. That's works for them, but not for me. On my websites, I have nearly 1500 recipes that use the same portion size so that it's easy to make an apples-to-apples comparison of the volume consumed to the calories consumed. So a portion of soup is always 1 cup. A portion of meat is always based on 4 ounces of uncooked meat. A serving of vegetables always starts with 1/4 pound of vegetable per person. I don't question if you'll eat one or two cups of something, not my business. But I am trying to teach myself (and others) about healthy portion sizes and my way to accomplish that is to stick to certain volumes.

    So what I think you'll learn, as I did, is to use the Weight Watchers point system as a guide, a great starting point, but not to obsess whether the specific values are right on, or not, ESPECIALLY for what is obviously a low-calorie healthful soup or salad or whatever.

    I hope this long explanation helps. Good luck with Weight Watchers, it really does teach us how to eat well, not too little, definitely not too much!

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  23. Thank you so much for posting this recipe... it's similar to an old favorite and we lost the recipe card for it. Thank you!!

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  24. Dear Alanna, I just found your sight and am excited to try all. I was sick for about 10 days and a friend's mother sent this soup over for me. I loved it so much, I had it for lunch and dinner. Can't wait to sign up for you news letter and try more. I live alone (widow) so don't cook often, like I used to. But now am going to try some of these healthy, good sounding dishes. Thanks again, it's nice to have someone to guide me and share receipes with. Molly

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  25. Hi Molly, So nice of you to write! I know this is a really good soup but who knew it had medicinal powers? You might like some of the recipes in Cooking for One or Two, with any luck, they'll inspire you to head back into the kitchen once in awhile! Be well!

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  26. MIchelle SullivanFebruary 22, 2011

    What a great soup and made the house smell delicious I also added some Butternut Squash ..pretty good..i actually took this to subway with me tonight and my daughter said Mom you are so embarassing..lol

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  27. AnonymousJune 22, 2011

    I am not on weight watchers, but I love this recipe. The cabbage adds such great texture- and its easy to make with a few common ingredients. For extras I like to add a can of kidney beans and a packet of chicken stock base (I don't often have vegetable stock in my apartment). Tonight I also had leftover spicy italian sausage, so I chopped that up and put it in. When I don't have cabbage I substitute with a pack of frozen spinach- which is good too! Just yummy all around- you can't go wrong!

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  28. The soup is only considered 1 point if you only eat one serving. In WW, just because something is zero points, doesn't mean you can eat all you want without counting it. For example, a small can of spinach is 0, but a large can in one point.

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  29. So glad to know about this! Thank you!

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  30. A few years ago when I was on WW, I used this soup as something to hold me over. I would eat this soup when I was out of points for the day and got hungry. I would sometimes eat it for lunch with a few slices of whole wheat bread (the serving size for the bread was 3 slices for 1 pt)
    This soup made WW so easy because I was never hungry.
    I must admit I did cheat my way through WW, I didn't exactly eat the healthiest foods, but I did lose 50 pounds, so I was doing something right.
    Well, a few years later, I just found out I gained about 9 pounds in the last 6 months after keeping the weight off all that time. So, here I go back to the soup and the watching what I eat. This soup is going to help me kill off those 9 pounds plus more (I only weigh 124 pounds at the moment, so I don't have too much to go)

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  31. Blogkitten--Canned tomato products have quite a bit of sodium in them. Not to mention the tsp of Kosher salt. Swanson makes a no-sodium chicken broth---love it!!! But this is a great recipe and well worth a try!!

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  32. there are many no sodium added tomato products out there now I buy them all the time Hunts and even Walmarts brand have no sodium added ;o)

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  33. Just re-started WW and wanted to make this soup from years ago. Thanks for having the site!

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  56. I found you many years ago and this has been my go-to soup recipe since then. I add Pace Picante sauce instead of tomato paste and I add broccoli. I love it! Thank you!

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