North american soups, stews & chilis recipes with 500 or fewer calories

Crab and Corn Chowder

Perfect for fall, Crab and Corn Chowder fits the bill for a satisfying main dish lunch or dinner chowder. This is from the Crown Prince website.

Slow Cooked Beef Stew

Crockpot Pinto-Bean Stew

Crockpot Pinto-Bean Stew is a delicious, hearty and spicy Tex-mex style recipe with spicy corn meal dumplings. Ingredients include, pinto beans,…

Slow Cooker Beef with Barley Soup

Cooking the pearl barley a long time gives this soup a nutty flavor and smooth texture. It's very different…

Beef and Barley Stew

Our theme for food this month is “Food from the Heartland” and since we had a cold and rainy weekend a warm satisfying stew was my food of choice.…

Five Star Chicken Gumbo

"If you've never eaten authentic creole, you truly don't know what you're missing. I discovered this Louisiana favorite while residing there in the…

LOBSTER STOCK

Recently, we visited Lobster Place in Chelsea Market in NYC and bought some fully-cooked lobsters which we brought home to eat. In my opinion,…

Chili con Carne - Stove Top or Crock Pot!

Hurray for fall and chili time! This makes a batch for about 5 adult servings, but there’s no such thing as…

Homemade Ham Stock

Whenever I make a ham dinner I always make sure to save the ham bone because it can be used in soups or stocks to which it adds a ton of flavor.…

Crock pot lentil soup

I love lentil soup and I must not be alone in that love because when I used to buy canned soup I loved a particular brand’s lentil soup and it was…

Crock Pot Beef Stew

Delicious comfort food...homemade beef stew in the crock-pot. My kids will eat this when they won't eat vegetables. This makes a huge 6 quart crock…

Butternut Squash and Apple Soup (with Pressure Cooker Option)

Inspired by a recipe from New Paradigm Cooking (Sandbach, Terranova and Ware), I chose to forego the cookbook’s…

mexican chicken pozole verde

There are many variations on pozole, a traditional hominy-based Mexican stew closely associated with the Pacific-coast state of Guerrero. Anya von…

You’ll love This Heavenly Chicken Tortilla Soup

This Mexican style soup is so rich in intriguing flavors and full of tantalizing aromas that fill your…

Sensational Skinny Reuben Soup

Wait until you get a spoonful of this new soup…All the flavors of a fabulous Reuben sandwich right in this amazingly delicious bowl of soup!!! One…