Up in the mountains, where they will stay for a year or more at a time, the fighters live spartan lives, subsisting on plain soups, tea, rice, beans, water and bread baked in makeshift ovens.
Many soups, from plain tomato soup to gazpacho, use tomato juice as a base.
6-8 Clerk Street, 0131-478 6518, tanjore.co.uk Done right and prepared with love, plain old soup can be a wonderful thing.
Balanced on an artfully folded napkin, a bowl of plain carrot soup (no cream) proved that sometimes the basics can't be beat.
To up the ante on a plain-ish soup, top with pine nuts, sunflower seeds, or a crumble of goat cheese, and add pretzels or baby carrots and you've got a meal: cheap, filling, with a pleasant aroma.
Lunch on the run For a relaxed fill-up of plain home cooking soups, salads and stews, served with a hunk of bread and a grin retrace your steps to 31 Nahalat Binyamin Street and the much-loved Caf Birnbaum (14).
But India is an ancient, continuous civilization, and Indians feel excitement but also pain in the dueling pressures to be someone else and be themselves: to subscribe to their astrology charts, schedule things on "auspicious days," dance to the beats of Punjab's plains, drink lentil soup.
If you get tired of subsisting on broth and soup, eat plain foods that won't upset your stomach, like bananas, plain boiled white rice or dry toast.
While you all debate in the comments, I'll be over here, subsisting on soup and plain bread until the sugar shakes go away.
This classification resulted in all foods except the majority of fruit and vegetables, plain rice crackers, and soup broth being classified as high energy foods and this may have made it more difficult to detect differences in the energy content of the foods offered.
