The soup sounds good but I would definitely need the sour cream and I’d probably add bread and butter so really not low cal.

Poke bowls are my go to healthy/low cal dinner. I add different things each time.

One of my favorites is meatless mushroom stroganoff (with yogurt instead of sour cream) served over cauliflower rice.

There's a Weight Watchers cabbage soup the same or nearly so as what Lucille described. It differs slightly, as with tomato paste instead of diced tomatoes but that's close to the same thing. It's very good and also filling. For us, no need to add sour cream. We sometimes increase the ratio of flavorful vegetables (of all kinds) to liquid and it becomes almost more like a vegetable stew than soup. Either way. very tasty and a solid portion of veggies for the day. The liquid content and veggie content makes it very filling.

I just did a search and found a reasonable recipe approximation online.

When I'm watching my carbs, my go to breakfast is a mushroom/spinach omelet with whatever protein one wishes to use. I generally go with bacon (not low fat, but allowed when low carbing), ham or some sort of chicken sausage. I add some salsa and a 1/4 slice of jack cheese on top of the omelet. I always have a small fruit salad on the side. It usually contains strawberries, blueberries, some sort of melon, a few orange sections and maybe some apple or pear if I have those on hand.

I find this breakfast satisfies me until dinner time.

One of my favorite lunches is what I call a calzone without crust. I use Farmers cheese, or whipped cottage cheese . About 2/3 of a cup, add a slice of deli ham cut into smallish pieces, and a slice of provolone cheese ripped up. A sprinkle of garlic grandules. Microwave about 45 sec. Or till cheese is melted a little. Under 325 calories.

Another lunch or breakfast idea. I use farmers cheese, half a small avacado diced, and about a 1/4 cup of medium salsa all mixed together. Warning this does not look good, but tastes great. Farmers cheese and whipped cottage cheese have a dryer consistence .

Lucille, your soup is very similar to a WW favorite as Elmer has mentioned.

My favorite very low cal dinner is already cooked chicken sausage. It is Nature's Promise Organic that I get at Stop and Shop. They are 80 calories each. I saute onions and peppers. No rice.

The other thing we like to do is a salad for dinner.. One has a warm pesto sauce dressing. It does call for pasta but I only use 1/2 pound. This salad can last us two nights.

A quick easy dinner is Trader Joes Turkey Bolognese. It comes frozen. One package is enough for 1/2 lb of pasta.

Sometimes we do a vegetable night. Cooked yams, a green vegetable (peas, green beans) and corn.

Because I don't count calories, I'm not sure whether this qualifies as low cal but it does look flavorful. Just discovered the recipe and hope to make it soon: https://www.rachelcooks.com/2018/10/22/stuffed-acorn-squash/

If I want to go low cal I simply eat from the old style WW food exchange list. Count proteins, breads, fruits, fat, and dairy adding at least 2 (more is better) servings of vegetables and there you have a balanced diets coming in at 1200 to 1400 calories a day. No "evil foods" to avoid no "special power" foods you must choke down.

The WW vegetable soup is a good one. I remember it being suggested not as a meal but a way to stave off hunger between meals with the bonus of additional extra vegetables.

I make my own 'shake n bake' and will use it to bake fish or chicken breasts in the oven...with a side of veggies.

For lunch every day I have a large salad with some chopped up turkey breast and all the rest veggies on spring mix. If you haven't tried bolthouse ranch dressing, it's very good...made with yogurt.

When the hungries hit, I have nonfat greek yogurt and a banana...I mix in vanilla or cinnamon into the yogurt.

Roasted Butternut Squash Soup. Thousands of online recipes and it's good whether chunky or creamy.

We use cubed squash from Trader Joe's and chicken stock or chicken base. Added vegetables include onion, celery and carrots. Table seasonings we use are salt, pepper, nutmeg.

The cubed squash can also be roasted and served with salmon.

I do the butternut squash soup also. I use no salt added broth because the hubby is on low salt diet as well as low carb and low calorie. Tonight I sauteed onions, peppers and mushrooms until they were soft and then layered them between flounder filets and baked them in the oven. They were quite tasty! I also make my version of the WW vegetable soup and we had it for lunch! I also do egg white scrambles with the onions, mushrooms and peppers.

I make toaster oven pizza with a whole wheat flour tortilla as the base, a spoon of sauce, an assortment of thin sliced veggies, and light application of cheese (mostly parmesan, just a scanty sprinkle of shredded mozz for flavor and texture). This avoids most of the calories from crust, cheese and greasy pizza meats while still satisfying a desire for the taste.

Sorry. No help. :( I have some great low carb ideas but they tend to be full of fat and calories. That's how I eat to lose weight. I think when it's full fat and delicious i get satisfied with less anyway.

I do drink hot chicken broth if I get hungry between meals. That's low carb AND low calorie.....

Amylou for dinner yesterday I had a wonderful bowl of guacamole, so flavorful. But sometimes a meal like that translates into low calorie because it satisfies your hunger and you don't eat again as quickly.

I open a can of Del Monte zucchini & tomato sauce. It's very filling!

I just made fat flush soup, which is actually quite tasty...brown up ground turkey then add onion, garlic, red & green pepper, celery, spinach, chicken broth, tomato puree, mushrooms and anything other veggies you'd like. I used some herbs to flavor it more and pepper. Came out delish and it's very lo cal and filling.

instead of whole wheat flour tortilla, if you want to cut carbs, try

Joseph's Pita & its sturdier to make little pizzas

these are very good!! i use a low carb pizza sauce, part skim mozzarella, turkey pepperoni or whatever i have on hand. very filling :)