Easy to make...a little bit of a variation on my homemade cream of tomato... just threw it together in a panic before I succumbed to the few bits of things which I will throw out tomorrow.

I did not cheat all through the holiday, tasted the dressing while I was cooking BUT spit it out immediately...then the company left...I was alone...happy to be alone, but hungry for something good, for something tasty. I altered my regular cream of tomato soup recipe to include few carbs and it was DE-licious. (Oh, yeah

Fry a strip of bacon or two in a large saucepan..remove when crisp. Make sure there's enough oil to sautee' a good bit of onion...like a half of one.

13.6 - 16 oz of tomato sauce, pour over it and add enough water to thin it out just a bit.. cook until really hot...boiling. (Add the bacon back in to flavor the broth.)

1/4 cup of heavy cream and 3/4 - 1 full c water mixed together.

Pour on top of the boiling tomato sauce.

Stir and bring back to boil. Now dump about a cup to 2 cups of broccoli into the soup and cook til tender. When the onions and the broc is tender I'd say it is DONE. Took about 15 minutes.

I made some extra bacon to have on the side rather than crackers.

Normally, I'd thicken it w/ flour and cook a pan of cornbread LOL...but no point in that! Gotta keep it low carb.

There's about 20 carbs in the whole pan as I estimate...about four to six carbs per serving...the only carb thing being the broc and the t sauce.

I seasoned to taste with sea salt and black pepper.

(ps, I am not afraid of bacon. I don't eat it every day, but I eat it. I use the pre-cooked type which is lower in fat...so in this recipe I had to add a little oil to cook the bacon in...if you have regular bacon you don't usually have to.)