I love Tom Yum Kai Thai Soup, especially now. Its spicy (you can choose), brothy, low fat and low carb. I am currently pureeing the chicken and veggies in the store bought soup and mixing with the broth to drink.

I recently picked up a new product, Tom Yum Soup starter base, I have been looking for something like this for a while so I cant wait to cook with this as finding authentic Thai veggies to put in the soup at home is hard. Of course good restaurant soup is both expensive and inconvenient :-)

This soup base is basically chicken broth (10 cals per cup, no fat and 2g sugar) so it would have been perfect for the day before surgery if I had found it then.

I cant wait to cook with it, hopefully this weekend...

See attached images for calorie info.

Sounds WONDERFUL!

Way cool! Thanks for the heads up. Where did you find it? Grocery store, specialty Asian, online?

Way cool! Thanks for the heads up. Where did you find it? Grocery store' date=' specialty Asian, online?

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I found it at my local grocery store - Ralph's, in the organic section. I think Whole Foods also carries this brand. I will make a soup with this over the weekend. Will let you know how that goes.

The black bean soup from these guys saved my life during my liquid phase!

So I made the soup per the instructions on the carton and I must say I was disappointed. Not that it did not taste good, it did. It was very healthy with low fat and carb but it did not taste like Tom Yum soup.

I had to add a fair bit of lime juice to make it taste like Tom You soup I am used to.

I will still continue to use the broth but I will probably continue to modify the recipe to suit my tastes.

One recipe I have used in the past and I like is at the following link. It is a lot more work so I don't make it so often:

http://riya-kitchen.blogspot.com/2007/08/tom-yum-kai.html?m=1

Tips:

- Just substitute Galangal with ginger (I add a little extra ginger).

- If you do not have the Lime leaves don't worry about it.

- Any mushrooms will do in a pinch, white or shiitake preferred.