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
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