What is the best tinned soup? SERIOUS

[TheJasperCo]

Because sometimes you only have 5 mins to prepare lunch?

I make soup often and yes, it's a piece of p|ss, but a tin of soup in the cupboard is a dead handy option when pressed for time...

open a tin. put in pan. heat it up. volley.

Make a big batch of soup if you have an hour to kill, then freeze the leftovers for another time. Economical too.

Sorry, I don't mean to sound like a prude when it comes to cooking, but I'm getting into cookery more now, and soup is one of my favourite meals to make : Before, I used to have Heinz Cream of Tomato or Pea and Ham soup from Covent Gardens, but the amount of salt added to disguise the lack of flavour puts me right off.

 

[Puppet Master]

Hate soup. It's just a drink and doesn't fill me up at all.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Happy to report that the Baxters Highland Game soup is smashing and 3% of the recipe is Sherry.

it's a 400ml tin so it's 12ml of sherry

20 tins should give me a warm glow


multi tasking

 

[Grombleton]

Heinz Cream of Tomato is the favourite in the Grombleton household. It used to be Potato & Leek, but it turns out i'm allergic to leek

This is belting though, fills you right up.

It's not necessarily the soup, but any accompaniments; a couple of slices of Tiger bread is splendid.

 

[Yoda]

 

[The Large One]

Is that the stuff that looks exactly the same going in as it does vomited back out?

 

[BensGrandad]

I love Lobster Bisque in any form or even fish soup if homemade but as regards tinned I like Baxters Lobster Bisque but I must admit LIDL do a very good one in a bottle in their Deluxe range. Sligtly OT has anybody noticed that you do not seem to be able to buy packets of 5 min simmer soup in either 1pt or 1.5 pint now, think they could have been made by Knorr if memory serves me well. Wanted some to make up for my flask but had to use a combination of Batchelors Oxtail Cuppa soup and Heinz Mulligatawny..

 

[Danny-Boy]

Can't BELIEVE how many people rate Heinz on here, since that Oirish bloke took charge of them a few years ago quality plummeted well below Campbells.

I now go for Ainsley Harriots packet stuff and often mix it with Morrison's cans. A particularly good mix is Morry's Ham and Pea soup supplemented by Ainsley's Pea Powder. Thickens up a treat.

 

[Danny-Boy]

Heinz Cream of Tomato is the favourite in the Grombleton household. It used to be Potato & Leek, but it turns out i'm allergic to leek

This is belting though, fills you right up.

It's not necessarily the soup, but any accompaniments; a couple of slices of Tiger bread is splendid.

Never been to Leek, wots wrong with it?

 

[Danny-Boy]

Baxter's French Onion Soup!

Yup had that via a dented tin reduced offer. Superb, just add a few chopped onions as well, plus garlic, mixed herbs.

Wonder if it's worth squeezing a few tins out of shape on the shelves, then..

 

[Bladders]

Heinz Cream of Chicken. END OF THREAD.

Why would anybody want the cream of a chicken

 

[MJsGhost]

Make a big batch of soup if you have an hour to kill, then freeze the leftovers for another time. Economical too.

Sorry, I don't mean to sound like a prude when it comes to cooking, but I'm getting into cookery more now, and soup is one of my favourite meals to make : Before, I used to have Heinz Cream of Tomato or Pea and Ham soup from Covent Gardens, but the amount of salt added to disguise the lack of flavour puts me right off.

If I had a microwave at home... or a freezer at work, that might be an option.

If you want a very easy, tasty, thick winter-warmer of a soup, try this (can't remember the quantities off-hand):

Chop an onion & fry to soften with some cumin seeds
Chuck in a tin of toms, some smoked hot paprika and a chopped chilli
Add (red) lentils and some stock and simmer until the lentils are almost cooked
Add half a tin of chick peas (drained), simmer for 5 mins.
Liquidise.
Return to heat.
Season - plenty of pepper, salt to taste (depends on how salty your stock was too)
Add milk to loosen if required (but it's supposed to be thick)
Add the rest of the chick peas. Simmer for 5 mins.
Add chopped coriander
Serve with a dollop of sour cream

Filling, tasty and can be as spicy as you wish... Also good for veggies unless you use a chicken stock (not that my sister noticed one time & I only remembered after she'd eaten it!)

 

[Mackenzie]

My missus makes nice homemade soup, but if I have tinned then its usually Heinz Tomato. I put some chunks of cheddar cheese in it.

 

[hoveboyslim]

Heinz Cream of Tomato soup with a hint of basil

 

[Rogero]

I love Lobster Bisque in any form or even fish soup if homemade but as regards tinned I like Baxters Lobster Bisque but I must admit LIDL do a very good one in a bottle in their Deluxe range. Sligtly OT has anybody noticed that you do not seem to be able to buy packets of 5 min simmer soup in either 1pt or 1.5 pint now, think they could have been made by Knorr if memory serves me well. Wanted some to make up for my flask but had to use a combination of Batchelors Oxtail Cuppa soup and Heinz Mulligatawny..

Normally make my own but Heinz Mulligatawny is great and a quick curry fix.

 

[Jesus Gul]

Baxters Carrot and Butterbean or Spicy Parsnip.

 

[algie]

Cream of tomato

 

[Vegas Seagull]

If plastic tins count, Glorious soups sold out of Co-Op do a West African Chicken & Peanut which us, er, glorious & astonishingly good

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Tomatoe

 

[Thunder Bolt]

If anyone has a cold or throat infection then have chicken soup. The Jewish people would always serve it whenever someone in the family was ill. Several years ago, it was investigated and scientifically proven to have healing properties. I don't know whether any particular brand is better than any other.