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Originally Posted by pink clouds  I will try it Popcorn...the sad thing is I have never made soup before unless it was pre-made in a can...how sad. But I will give it a try it sounds scrumptious!! The whole stones things really interests me but I can never understand the concept of it because its always explained as 14 pounds and I cannot see how one who is better acquainted with the metric system can identify weight in pounds comfortably. 14 pounds converted is 6.3 Kg so I wonder like how did they invent this stone? How many exact Kg is a stone? Do you know how they came about making this measurement? Sorry to bore you with something so simple...it is probably the same as asking why is 8oz. a cup...but I am so intrigued by this. I even tried to google it but i just get rocks LOL I would love to track your loss in stones with you lol maybe soon I will be talking in stones as well.  |
Hi Pink Clouds,
Stones are just an old imperial measurement - it seems illogical when you've used metric all your life, but when you've grown up describing your weight as, say, nine
stone two (I wish!), it is a bit confusing hearing weight given in a mass of
pounds.
Wiki describes the background better than I can – it's just a bit of a UK anachronism, really.
I really recommend making soup. I saw a programme that ran an experiment that demonstrated that if you gave someone a plate of food and a glass of water, and then another person the same food and water, cooked and pureed to make a soup - the soup kept the person more 'full' for longer. The great thing about soup is you can cook up any old veg, some stock (cubes are fine), and whiz it up in the blender and it always tastes better than the sum of its parts. I always start off by frying some onion, and often add a potato to give a velvety texture - everything else is pretty low in
calories.
