Meemur
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Feel better soonest!
FOOD What has happened to soup variety in stores?
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Feel better soonest!
Barry Natchitoches
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I know you don’t like Amazon, but Amazon had it a couple of hours ago. On Subscribe and Save, it was $23 or so for a case of 12 cans.
That was too rich for my blood, so I didn’t get any, though I did pick up a case of Beans and Bacon soup, about $14 using Subscribe and Save.
But if you are looking for some Creme of Bacon, try Amazon.
SouthernBreeze
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Amazon screwed up our account a few months back, and to date, we've not been able to get it straightened out. That's why we don't use them. I can have our DIL order for us.
Barry Natchitoches
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I sure hope your mouth gets to healing fast, SB!
I hate going to the dentist - especially now that they think I am too old to give a lollypop to!
AlaskaSue
North to the Future
I live in a small rural town and mainly shop at a state-wide but only-in-Alaska local store. Just for you I counted soup varieties today….17, but alas no cream of shrimp (and yep, I’ve had it). What I like about this store is they sell local farms’ eggs.
Local beef, local pork, local salmon. It’s good to be home but there is a whole lot out in the Lower 48, too.
Local beef, local pork, local salmon. It’s good to be home but there is a whole lot out in the Lower 48, too.
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Marthanoir
TB Fanatic
Ok is it just me or did anybody else read that as 'feel better scones' ,
I could go for some feel better scones but I'm not going baking at this time of night
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bracketquant
Veteran Member
Almost as entertaining as those midget videos?
tiredude
Veteran Member
like a drug dealer giving you more 'product'........I sure hope your mouth gets to healing fast, SB!
I hate going to the dentist - especially now that they think I am too old to give a lollypop to!
tiredude
Veteran Member
Sorry no, but it beats the hell out of all the end of the world stuff. I can wrap my head around a bowl of soup.......
I prefer wrapping my lips around it, but hey, whatev…. 
dioptase
Veteran Member
I just remembered that currently, for a quick, tasty and healthy soup, I eat "Everyday Dal". I don't like the plain dal that you get in Indian restaurants, but these are dals with extra ingredients so they taste different. I've tried all 6 of their flavors. I don't like the coconut ones (I don't like coconut much anyway), but I very much like the dal with the garbanzos, and the dal with the red kidney beans/carrot/tamarind is also good. No soy, no MSG, etc. (They are out of the 6-flavor variety pack, but you can search for the individual flavors.) I add a little something to the soup after it comes out of the microwave (maybe garlic powder, red pepper, sour cream, cheese, whatever.... each flavor has suggestions for additions).)
One package of soup, with some crackers (and maybe a bit of cheese), and you're good to go for lunch. (Or you can also add in a bit of leftover ham.)
One package of soup, with some crackers (and maybe a bit of cheese), and you're good to go for lunch. (Or you can also add in a bit of leftover ham.)
Marthanoir
TB Fanatic
I prefer wrapping my lips around it, but hey, whatev….
Wasn't that Kamala Harris's campaign slogan.
Flippper
Time Traveler
Welcome to 1960's communist Russia.
The thing that new arrivals here on our shores mentioned, was the massive variety of items on our shelves (free market trade). Especially those arriving from communist nations will tell you, 'if' they have any type of item, it will be one maker, one flavor, one size. Shortages and lack are the earmark of communism.
Also, the reason more soup flavors are available in the fall is because its harvest season, and more ingredients are available. This fall should be interesting, polis were saying in February that there would be food shortages and starvation in America-only way they could possibly predict that accurately is if they caused it.
I think it only fair they be incarcerated for their heinous crimes and fed bugs and cockroach milk until they are packed out by six.
The thing that new arrivals here on our shores mentioned, was the massive variety of items on our shelves (free market trade). Especially those arriving from communist nations will tell you, 'if' they have any type of item, it will be one maker, one flavor, one size. Shortages and lack are the earmark of communism.
Also, the reason more soup flavors are available in the fall is because its harvest season, and more ingredients are available. This fall should be interesting, polis were saying in February that there would be food shortages and starvation in America-only way they could possibly predict that accurately is if they caused it.
I think it only fair they be incarcerated for their heinous crimes and fed bugs and cockroach milk until they are packed out by six.
wintery_storm
Veteran Member
you can always make a new account with a different email address. I have two account.
Macgyver
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Ok grocery store Campbell's soup recon.
creams
mushroom
chicken
celery
potato
cheder cheese
chk rice
vegetable
tomato
bean Bacon
tomato
golden mushroom
vegetarian vegetable
Plus at least 6 different chk noodle variations.
These were all the classic red/white cans.
creams
mushroom
chicken
celery
potato
cheder cheese
chk rice
vegetable
tomato
bean Bacon
tomato
golden mushroom
vegetarian vegetable
Plus at least 6 different chk noodle variations.
These were all the classic red/white cans.
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AlaskaSue
North to the Future
The ONLY main one that I could not find local was ANY chicken noodle. Cream. Mushroom, garlic…anything. But chk and rice in abundance. Hm.
The one I missed the most when I decided it was ridiculous to pay over $2 for 22 ounces of soup (diluted concentrate) was their Manhattan Clam Chowder. I found a clone recipe, and I make 5 gallons every fall. We grow every ingredient except the clams and salt. Which reminds me: I need to see if there is a restaurant supply store in the nearest city, or if Costco carries the big (and fairly economical) cans of clams.
I bought my second All-American canner (the 915, which holds 8 regular pints or 7 quarts) to can "planned overs"... left overs caused by my making a large batch of soup or stew, even though its just the two of us. I put a couple of quarts in the fridge, then can the rest. Usually, by the time I had finished cleaning up the kitchen, the cannervwws ready to turn off and cool overnight.
The "quick meals" cupboards filled up quickly.
Totally off topic, but man do I miss my root cellar and basement! I had 15 feet of full kitchen cabinets, upper and lower, to store my home canned jars, plus various store bought cans and bottles. Then I had an additional 30 feet of open shelving, which I used mostly for stacked canned goods. Plus the shelves I designed and hubby helped me build that held 8 cases of quarts or 11 cases of pints in each "tower" unit. I had 11 of them full at one point in mid fall a few years ago!
We've got to get things set up better around here!
Summerthyme
tiredude
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best of luck in your venture. it souds nice. yes, those left overs can really add up!
I remember 30+ years ago an entire length of a grocery shelf used to be nothing but Campbell Soups. Not anymore. I have begun to make my own split pea soup. So much better tasting.
I think the cream soups are mainly used in cooking, not eating right out of the can. Chicken noodle soup is a mainstay in my house. I can't seem to eat a sandwich without Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup.
Yeah, I never go full can water or milk in canned soup xame reason.
Have not seen golden mushroom in a wbile myself. Keep broc\cheese for fl when she is sick.
Chicke noodle, rice and such on shelves everything elxe hidden so it deos not get ezten.
coalcracker
Veteran Member
Back in the 90s, I would take Campbell’s “Tomato Garden” soup to work and eat it cold out of the can (one of my many idiosyncrasies). It was that good!
I still rue the day that the labels on the can changed. We all know what that means. The new Tomato Garden had water as its #1 ingredient. The prior one had tomatoes as the primary ingredient. Same price, of course, but a much inferior product. That was 20-some years ago.
Nothing, however, equals the criminal cheapening of Hershey chocolate bars when they removed the cocoa butter. They deserve the deepest level of Dante’s Inferno for that particular sin.
I still rue the day that the labels on the can changed. We all know what that means. The new Tomato Garden had water as its #1 ingredient. The prior one had tomatoes as the primary ingredient. Same price, of course, but a much inferior product. That was 20-some years ago.
Nothing, however, equals the criminal cheapening of Hershey chocolate bars when they removed the cocoa butter. They deserve the deepest level of Dante’s Inferno for that particular sin.
Many times I’ve eaten the condensed soups right from the can.
If you want tomato soup the way it used to be, use tomato sauce instead. Season to taste.
Done and done.
Yes, I do it.
If you want tomato soup the way it used to be, use tomato sauce instead. Season to taste.
Done and done.
Yes, I do it.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
we're supposed to add water? I never add water to their soups.
There's a tent for Spam at the Iowa State Fair, and they have five flavors and that's it! You go to Hawaii, Japan, or South Korea, and there's like thirty different flavors of Spam!
bracketquant
Veteran Member
I thought Spam had one flavor, salt.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Nope it comes in different flavors, and there's a thread about spam here somewhere, maybe even two different threads.
bracketquant
Veteran Member
If your state fair has deep-fried bacon-wrapped Spam-on-a-stick, I'm in.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Didn't go to the fair this year, so don't really know, I just saw their clip on facebook about checking out the Spam Tent. Pretty much 75% of the food at the fair is on a stick though, and bacon is a HUGE thing here in Iowa.
Wonders how it'd taste dipped in that cream of poblano soup (as a dipping sauce) that was mentioned up thread?
The “Chunky” soups you don’t add water to. The “condensed” soups you do.
Meemur
Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
If you need a five-minute dinner, the bean-bacon with one-two hot dogs cut up and added to it is pretty tasty. I make this at the end of a long day where my planning has fallen apart and there's nothing else to reheat. It's also good during a power outage (cooks quickly on the camp stove).
I love Campbell's Bean With Bacon condensed soup.
Before serving it, I'll add a tablespoon or two of white vinegar to the pot. That really brings out the flavor. Try it sometime.
I also love to dunk it with plain old white bread. Rye bread if you got it.
Good for almost any soup or stew ... I use ACV.
My 12 pack of split pea arrived a little while ago. Guess what I’m having.
It’s a terrible thing that the simple pleasures are increasingly unavailable locally in many areas.
It’s a terrible thing that the simple pleasures are increasingly unavailable locally in many areas.
Besides adding great taste to the bean soup, vinegar is supposed to help aid in digestion.