Is Campbell soup mmm mmm good ?

[RamblingMad]

It's not good. Their tomato soup may be the exception.

 

[mjkacmom]

The only condensed I liked was tomato (won’t cook with any of it), but had an over abundance of cherry tomatoes last summer, so made m6 own with roasted tomatoes, and it was SO much better.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

As a kid I liked campbells chicken noodle. Now I can’t eat it. I still buy it for my kids. They eat is about once a year. I use progressive tomato soup for tomato soup and grilled cheese.

 

[MillauFr]

Not a fan of Campells soups. Best soup I ever had was the fresh summer pea soup at Cafe Brio in Victoria, BC... It was life changing experience....

http://cafebrio.com/

 

[DLgal]

As a kid I liked campbells chicken noodle. Now I can’t eat it. I still buy it for my kids. They eat is about once a year. I use progressive tomato soup for tomato soup and grilled cheese.

Same. I think Progressive Tomato Basil is the best canned tomato soup on the market, although Rao's now sells jar soup and they have a tomato basil as well. Need to try that one next. Their Pasta e Fagoli and Minestrone are fantastic.

I also used to eat Campbells Chicken and Stars or Chicken Noodle religiously as a kid. It tastes like ocean water to me now. Just insanely salty and the chunks of mystery meat chicken in it are SO unappetizing. I now exclusively use Knorr powdered soup mix envelopes (Fideos de Pollo) when I want chicken soup, or I make it homemade from scratch.

 

[TwoMisfits]

I'm sorry, there's absolutely nothing in that recipe that my stomach would handle when sick.

It's effectively only salt, sugar, umami, and broth (with rice added when you eat)...everything's strained out before you freeze. Try it before you knock it - everyone I know whom I've made it for steals the technique from me to make themselves (it's my Dec 26 cooking recipe since we do Peking Duck for Christmas)...

 

[Snowysmom]

I buy the healthy request campbell''s tomato soup. I make it with milk and top it with popcorn or chips. yum!

 

[leebee]

Campbell's cream of tomato soup, made with milk, is the only soup I want with my grilled cheese sandwich (made with American cheese). I never cook with either of these otherwise, but some things are just sacred!
I also LOVE Campbells cream of mushroom, again made with milk. I like to crumble Ritz crackers in it until it's almost thick enough to stand up a spoon!

Usually I make my own soup. I make killer chicken stock and almost always have some in the freezer, so making chicken noodle/rice/veg, etc., is a snap. I also make minestrone, split pea with ham, corn chowder, French onion, clam chowder, seafood chowder, lobster bisque, pasta e fagioli.. all kinds of soup from scratch- and they are delicious- but when I want tomato or mushroom, I want Campbells.

 

[disneychrista]

I buy the healthy request campbell''s tomato soup. I make it with milk and top it with popcorn or chips. yum!

Tomato soup goes really well with crunchy cheetos too.

 

[North of Mouse]

Homemade soup for us when possible. I love to 'copy cat' soups from our favorite restaurant recipes - like them even better than theirs, especially fish chowder and Zuppa Toscana.
I keep a few cans of soup (mostly chicken variety) on hand for quick needs.

 

[ronandannette]

Not a fan of Campells soups. Best soup I ever had was the fresh summer pea soup at Cafe Brio in Victoria, BC... It was life changing experience....

http://cafebrio.com/

I understand...I had a cream of asparagus at a local Italian place once that I can still practically taste when I close my eyes and imagine it. I couldn't get the recipe out of them but it did inspire lots of tries on my part of duplicate it.

I use Campbells' mushroom for casseroles and their tomato-basil is the base for a seafood bisque I make. Other than than, I like the odd can of alphabet soup with Ritz crackers for lunch at work. Tomato soup for grilled cheese is always Heinz and chicken noodle is Lipton's from a packet (not sure if you have those in the States).

 

[flyingdumbo127]

Campbell's Chicken Broth is the best!

 

[Heigh-Ho]

I grew up on them (mostly chicken noodle and tomato) but now prefer Progresso soups, and I try when possible to get reduced sodium versions.

 

[North of Mouse]

Yes, @ronandannette, we do have the boxed Lipton Noodle Soup and it has been a staple of theirs for many, many years. It has been a favorite of my dh since he was a young boy - think it made it's debut in the 1940's. It's made with/without chicken (very small diced pieces lol).

 

[mrodgers]

How about Campbell's ketchup?

I didn't just start out in Pittsburgh and live all of my life here in western PA, but I also worked at Heinz, so eww no, LOL.

I spent 8 months working an internship in 1993 doing all sorts of weird things to ketchup in the chemical lab. I couldn't eat ketchup for years, LOL.


As for the Campbell's soup, it goes beyond that. No to nearly everything canned. Of course homemade chicken noodle soup, but for quick and easy lunch, I like the Lipton dry soup. I am not a big fan of soup to begin with, and the only soup I really eat is stuffed pepper soup I make in the Instant Pot. The problem I have with that is trying not to eat the entire pot.

My (ex)wife and I always butted heads over chicken noodle soup. I grew up with my mother using pastina where she grew up on big thick homemade noodles.

 

[mrodgers]

...and chicken noodle is Lipton's from a packet (not sure if you have those in the States).
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I posted before reading your post, so yes, we do have Lipton's noodle soup as that is what I meant for non-homemade. I never liked Tomato soup, so growing up it was Lipton's and a grilled cheese with Kraft American cheese, dusted with garlic salt after buttering the bread, and sliced pickles after it is grilled in a pan.

Hmm, there's another good question, how do you make grilled cheese.

 

[hsmamato2]

canned soup? what's that? seriously tho....soup is one of the cheapest and most delicious things to make.... we don't buy cans of soup.

 

[ronandannette]

I posted before reading your post, so yes, we do have Lipton's noodle soup as that is what I meant for non-homemade. I never liked Tomato soup, so growing up it was Lipton's and a grilled cheese with Kraft American cheese, dusted with garlic salt after buttering the bread, and sliced pickles after it is grilled in a pan.

Hmm, there's another good question, how do you make grilled cheese.

Butter two pieces of white bread, put one piece butter side down in a hot pan, put on two thin slices of cheese (medium cheddar is best but honestly, it's usually Kraft singles around here), cover with the other piece of bread (butter side out) and let it crisp up on the first side before flipping to crisp up the other side. My DS puts the sandwich together on dry bread and melts butter in a pan before laying it down but to me, that way takes way too much butter and leaves the sandwich greasy.

 

[bcla]

I didn't just start out in Pittsburgh and live all of my life here in western PA, but I also worked at Heinz, so eww no, LOL.

I spent 8 months working an internship in 1993 doing all sorts of weird things to ketchup in the chemical lab. I couldn't eat ketchup for years, LOL.

Heinz had regional manufacturing plants. There’s still a Heinz Ave. in Berkeley, California and some of the Heinz buildings are still there. They’re long gone.

 

[Sweettears]

Same. I think Progressive Tomato Basil is the best canned tomato soup on the market, although Rao's now sells jar soup and they have a tomato basil as well. Need to try that one next. Their Pasta e Fagoli and Minestrone are fantastic.

I also used to eat Campbells Chicken and Stars or Chicken Noodle religiously as a kid. It tastes like ocean water to me now. Just insanely salty and the chunks of mystery meat chicken in it are SO unappetizing. I now exclusively use Knorr powdered soup mix envelopes (Fideos de Pollo) when I want chicken soup, or I make it homemade from scratch.

Check the labeling. I would wager to guess that Knorr has as much if not more sodium