I bought my fair share. It’s pretty cheap and brain-dead simple to make. You literally just heat it up.
I get it. I’m not a big fan of soup, so I haven’t purchased any in years, long before the tariff fiasco… I don’t intend on buying it again anytime soon, possibly ever. But I get why people do it.
It’s the same reason that KD is still a thing. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against KD, but when it comes to preparation, about the only thing simpler than KD, is frozen, soup from a can, Mr. Noodles, or something ready-to-eat.
The canned soups can be a good backup dish if you’re low on things, but it wouldn’t be like…a dish I’d be delighted to serve to guests. But you need food inside a human with minimum work? Chicken, rice, water, can of cream of something, spices, slap in oven and lay on the couch trying not to move.
I’m going to go ahead and disagree hard on this. I’ve had food scarcity in the past, and I’m a wonderful cook who can improvise from any ingredients.
Even at my most hungry, I would give the soup away. I would rather just cut up a piece of tomato and put it in fresh rice. Or use a couple of actual mushrooms and some powdered buttermilk if I needed creamy umami.
The soups are just salty, cooked-to-mush, food industry discard ingredients in my view.
I actually could not see how disgusting the soup was until I lost about 130 lb by cooking from scratch. When I went back to some of my old convenience foods, I spit them out in disgust.
I’m a single guy. In a tiny apartment with a shitty fridge and stove Tomatoes go bad when your apartment averages 84F all summer. Some rice, broth, cream of whatever soup, and some canned vegetables is cheap, easy, and none if it really expires. I try to eat healthy but i still have to throw away so much fresh veggies because i simply cannot eat it all by the time shit goes bad.
Also, i am so piss fucking broke that i can’t afford bame brand anything. Not that i would have been buying name brand anyway.
Hard with a shitty fridge/freezer, but if you can, I think basic frozen veggies can be priced comparably to canned, and are actually more nutritious as they get flash frozen when the nutrients are higher, and they taste better.
I can’t imagine not using canned diced tomato’s for things though. Fresh are so expensive, and when the canned ones go on sale it can be so cheap. Also so much effort saved, just tossing them into a soup/stew/chilli
Heh. When I met my wife she existed on Kraft “Dinner”, corn and Campbell’s soups. The good thing is I hate all those, so I introduced her to home cooked dishes that vary from Indian, Thai, Lebanese, Greek, etc. I’ve created a food snob now though, LOL.
I didn’t see a Campbell’s soup that has msg. Can you tell me the ones that do?
But there’s nothing wrong with MSG, it isn’t worse for you than table salt
Edit: The ones I looked at didn’t have MSG. The chicken noodle soup definitely has it.
Which is completely fine, because there isn’t anything wrong with MSG that isn’t also wrong with table salt.
Equally concerning is people are still buying Campbell’s shit salt-in-a-can.
I bought my fair share. It’s pretty cheap and brain-dead simple to make. You literally just heat it up.
I get it. I’m not a big fan of soup, so I haven’t purchased any in years, long before the tariff fiasco… I don’t intend on buying it again anytime soon, possibly ever. But I get why people do it.
It’s the same reason that KD is still a thing. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against KD, but when it comes to preparation, about the only thing simpler than KD, is frozen, soup from a can, Mr. Noodles, or something ready-to-eat.
I met this chick who bragged about what a great cook she was.
Every meal was basically pasta, rice, or meat in this crappy canned soup.
“Oh you didn’t like my red sauce pasta (tomato soup), you’re going to love my rice casserole (mushroom soup)”
Barf
The canned soups can be a good backup dish if you’re low on things, but it wouldn’t be like…a dish I’d be delighted to serve to guests. But you need food inside a human with minimum work? Chicken, rice, water, can of cream of something, spices, slap in oven and lay on the couch trying not to move.
I’m going to go ahead and disagree hard on this. I’ve had food scarcity in the past, and I’m a wonderful cook who can improvise from any ingredients.
Even at my most hungry, I would give the soup away. I would rather just cut up a piece of tomato and put it in fresh rice. Or use a couple of actual mushrooms and some powdered buttermilk if I needed creamy umami.
The soups are just salty, cooked-to-mush, food industry discard ingredients in my view.
I actually could not see how disgusting the soup was until I lost about 130 lb by cooking from scratch. When I went back to some of my old convenience foods, I spit them out in disgust.
I’m a single guy. In a tiny apartment with a shitty fridge and stove Tomatoes go bad when your apartment averages 84F all summer. Some rice, broth, cream of whatever soup, and some canned vegetables is cheap, easy, and none if it really expires. I try to eat healthy but i still have to throw away so much fresh veggies because i simply cannot eat it all by the time shit goes bad.
Also, i am so piss fucking broke that i can’t afford bame brand anything. Not that i would have been buying name brand anyway.
Hard with a shitty fridge/freezer, but if you can, I think basic frozen veggies can be priced comparably to canned, and are actually more nutritious as they get flash frozen when the nutrients are higher, and they taste better.
I can’t imagine not using canned diced tomato’s for things though. Fresh are so expensive, and when the canned ones go on sale it can be so cheap. Also so much effort saved, just tossing them into a soup/stew/chilli
Heh. When I met my wife she existed on Kraft “Dinner”, corn and Campbell’s soups. The good thing is I hate all those, so I introduced her to home cooked dishes that vary from Indian, Thai, Lebanese, Greek, etc. I’ve created a food snob now though, LOL.
On rare occasions, a Campbell’s chunky seafood chowder with spaghetti hits the spot.
MSG in a can.
Fuck you don’t besmirch MSG like this!
I didn’t see a Campbell’s soup that has msg. Can you tell me the ones that do?
But there’s nothing wrong with MSG, it isn’t worse for you than table salt
Edit: The ones I looked at didn’t have MSG. The chicken noodle soup definitely has it.
Which is completely fine, because there isn’t anything wrong with MSG that isn’t also wrong with table salt.
They literally all do. They do not list it as MSG.
“Hidden Names For MSG And Free Glutamic Acid:
Names of ingredients that always contain processed free glutamic acid.
Glutamic Acid (E 620)2
Glutamate (E 620)
Monosodium Glutamate (E 621)
Monopotassium Glutamate (E 622)
Calcium Glutamate (E 623)
Monoammonium Glutamate (E 624)
Magnesium Glutamate (E 625)
Natrium Glutamate
Yeast Extract
Anything hydrolyzed
Any hydrolyzed protein
Calcium Caseinate
Sodium Caseinate
Yeast Food
Yeast Nutrient
Autolyzed Yeast
Gelatin
Textured Protein
Soy Protein Isolate
Whey Protein Isolate
Anything :protein
Vetsin
Ajinomoto
Names of ingredients that often contain or produce processed free glutamic acid
Carrageenan (E 407)
Bouillon and broth
Stock
Any flavors or flavoring
Maltodextrin
Citric acid, Citrate (E 330)
Anything ultra-pasteurized
Barley malt
Pectin (E 440)
Protease
Anything enzyme modified
Anything containing enzymes
Malt extract
Soy sauce
Soy sauce extract
Anything protein fortified
Seasonings”
https://www.hungryforchange.tv/article/sneaky-names-for-msg-check-your-labels