Has anyone purchased a can of soup lately?

I felt a bit under the wheather the other day so I purchased myself a can of chicken noodle soup. I guess it's been a while since I've purchased a can of Campbell's soup but I coulda swore the standard ones like tomato or chicken noodle were less than a buck each not so long ago. Mike Malloy's been warning us to stock up, so has Thom Hartmann-both fear a deepening depression by summers end...is $1.75 for a can of chicken noodle soup an omen of things to come or is this just a sign that I'm gettin older?

Must be your store?

I switched back to the red/white cans to save some money. The chunky is too expensive.

and they remain under a buck a can.

I used to pay about 15 cents each for it, and now the price is up to a quarter.

In essence she agreed that our local Safeway had seen a rapid recent escalation in all food prices. She claimed the price increases were due to fuel/transportation costs last year and that those prices have not come back down.

We find making soup pretty easy, pretty inexpensive, much healthier - and it freezes wonderfully.

Camb's CN soup is day to day. I know several stores locally have had CN or Tomato were on the store ad for 3/$1.00.

I have cut back even more.

As for chicken soup, I make my own.

that was for generic. $1.75 even for Campbells though. Wow! Unless this was a 25 ounce can rather than a 10 ounce can.

I posted this topic to see if this was a local or a nationwide thing. It just may be something going on in my local Safeway or....well I confess after listening to Hartmann and Malloy, my tinfoil hat is starting to warm up.

....you should at least be eating Progresso.

I think it was a bit over $2.75 each!

I tried the chicken noodle and all I could taste was the celery. Not good at all.

There are many bargains on canned goods. I don't buy canned goods, but I have noticed the low prices on them at Big Lots.

I also dilute the salty taste with a gob of sour cream. :D

Need something to store cereal or loose nuts-n-bolts???? The Dollar Store has it, I purchase lots of tupper-ware style stuff there for just that reason. Need a cheep painters plastic/tarp to keep paint from spattering on the carpet? Our Dollar Store has 'em. Reading Glasses? Yep the Dollar Store is the ONLY place to get those. I also like to keep a dozen or so Dollar Store umbrellas in my truck-I pass em out for free to those stuck at bus stops on rainy days. (It's money well spent and makes one feel better than a bottle of cheep wine imo)

As to food products, I hate the taste of old food which has gone past it's projected shelf life. The Dollar Stores in my area are chock full of old-outdated canned goods and cookies and candies and etc. That said, I DID purchase some frozen pasta from that same Safeway which was 3 years past it's 'Best By' date. The Supervisor I returned that freezer burned pasta to was mortified when she saw that date. She went with me back to the freezer and we found and removed a couple more packages also way past their expiration date.

I hate buying a $5 roll of wrapping paper from Walgreens or CVS and only having enough paper to wrap one gift. There's a Dollar Store near me that sells close out dishes, drinking glass, etc. I got four full size dinner plates for $4 (we needed a few spares at Christmas). I, however, have never purchased food at a dollar store.

a nice savory duck soup.... add a few carrots, maybey some mushrooms and a bit of wild rice...
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Mean spirited witch!





:P

...so maybe make duck soup and only feed it to a republican or better yet, to another duck!
:bounce: :bounce:

Campbell's is for the middle class.

;)

for a dollar a can for tomato, lentil , french onion and minestrone and boy! didI ever stock up! It is crazy for soup to be so expensive that I think a dollar a can is a bargain but it is!

Could have gotten tomato or chicken noodle for that price. Burbs of Chicago.

The price of soup is the same!!
The price of labor is the same.

The price of energy, transportation, has spiked.

I was shopping for something to grill this morning and the good steaks are around $14 a pound. We used to grill steaks regularly, but no more.

... I've noticed.

Soup went from about a dollar, to about $1.15 and now to $1.44.

There is inflation in a lot of grocery prices, even though the economy is in a deflationary stage.

Go figure.

Meijer has Campbell's soup on sale for 10 for $5 occasionally so that's when I stock up.

HOMEMADE CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP

1 whole chicken
4 cubes chicken bouillon
Enough water to cover chicken
1 batch homemade noodles
1 onion
1 c. potatoes
1 c. celery
1 c. carrots

Cover chicken with water, add chicken bouillon in large pan. Cook until chicken comes off bones easily. Save broth. Debone the chicken and put meat in broth, add the remaining ingredients (add more or less vegetables to taste) except noodles and let simmer on low heat for several hours, stirring occasionally. Add noodles about 1/2 hour before serving. Cook until noodles are tender. Leftover can be frozen.

NOODLES:

2 eggs
1 tsp. salt
Water
Flour

Break eggs in bowl. Save shells. Fill a 1/2 egg shell with water twice and beat eggs, water and salt. Then add flour gradually until dough is stiff. Roll out on floured table and cut. (NOTE: Pizza cutter works well for this.) Cut in 1/4" to 1/2" strips. Separate and let dry at least 2 hours then add to soup.

Chicken Noodle Soup

This recipe takes only minutes to fix. And is really yummy. I have been making this soup for over 30 years.
The recipe was from of all places Comsumers Reports! First I made it with real chicken and now I make it
with soy and gluten "chicken" Either way it is quick and delicious.

Ingredients

1 Garlic clove -- minced
1 Bunch Scallions
12 Baby carrots
2 Celery stalks with leaves
2 Tbs Parsley -- minced
1 Qt Chicken Stock
1 Tbs Olive oil

8 oz cooked chicken, chopped or if you want it veggie (I do) 1 package fake chicken strips

6 Oz egg noodles

Instructions

Heat olive oil. Add veggies & garlic and saute' until scallions are soft, add broth and 1/2 parsley; In separate pan,, add noodles to boiling water; cook to al dente,
remove from heat, rinse in cold water, set aside. Let soup simmer 20 min. At time of serving, add remaining parsley, cooked noodles, and chicken to broth.
Serve immediately.

200 gal. water
35 pounds salt
6 pounds of chicken feet
6 pounds of chicken beaks
1 cube chicken bouillon

boil 12 min. in pressure cooker in huge factory next to an onion field. Add picture of a stick of celery to label.

Advertise like hell!

I don't think it's needed if you are cooking chicken with bones, just add salt to taste. Otherwise, yep, basic chicken soup is so much better than canned and can be made in a big batch and frozen for the same convenience as opening a can of soup when you're sick.

My local Krogers has had chicken leg quarters for 59 cents a pound for months now, I stocked up my freezer with that. At 30 cents a generous serving, I figured I couldn't beat that price for baked chicken or for starter for soups. But I was wrong - after stocking up, another store had it for 29 cents a pound, so I bought more. (We'll be eating a lot of chicken this year.)

It makes the campbells soup look like the worst deal ever, basically a buck or two for a can of salty water, ugh.

she measured the water in the eggshells too. :)

dg

I used to get them for about $.40 a can when the name brand was almost $.60. Now I'm lucky to find the off brand for 60 to 70 cents. I usually only buy tomato soup, the rest I'd rather make from scratch. It really is much better and cheaper that way. Make a gallon or so and freeze what you don't want to eat right away. I can remember when I was a kid a can of soup was about 10 cents and a gallon of gas wasn't much more. I've got about 30 tomato plants going right now and guess I could can 20-25 quarts and still make a gallon of tomato soup.

When times get tough, you have to get inventive or industrious.

It's about ten times thicker with ingredients as well. It doesn't contain enough sodium to affect your blood pressure either. I freeze it in cups that slide into their lunch thermoses so they can take it to school. Cheap, and great.

since they started making the cans smaller but not reducing the price.We are now living in the "rip-off" era.

The store has it on sale for half off and I have coupons, which get doubled. Even then, I tend to stick to the tomato style or any of the flavors V8 and Campbell's sell in the boxes. Those are all decent. I sometimes doctor it up with some sharp cheese or beans for protein. Don't care much for the other flavors, for reasons that have already been mentioned in this thread. I make my own. It's cheaper and tastes infinitely better. My one exception is for this, which I buy if if I can find a good sale, even without a coupon:



It's pricey, but delicious! In the summer, I add chopped onions and peppers and maybe tomatoes, and I eat it cold like gazpacho. I might add some feta or blue cheese/gorgonzola, if I have some on hand. Delish!

My parent grew up during the Depression, so stocking up on things and bargain-hunting were ingrained in me since I was young. Even if we don't have a depression any time soon, it's not a bad idea to stock up. Shit happens. Like power outages from storms or other catastrophes unrelated to this nasty economy. Not to mention that stocking up on things you use frequently when they're on sale saves you lots of money...

CHICKEN STOCK, ENRICHED PASTA (WHEAT FLOUR, EGG WHITES, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID), CARROTS, CHICKEN MEAT , CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF: LOWER SODIUM NATURAL SEA SALT, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, CHICKEN FAT, FLAVORING (MILK, SOY), CELERY, SALT, POTASSIUM CHLORIDE, SUGAR, WATER, MALTODEXTRIN, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED CHICKEN*, YEAST EXTRACT, ONIONS, ONIONS*, CORN OIL, CORNSTARCH, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, DISODIUM INOSINATE, BETA CAROTENE FOR COLOR, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, GARLIC*, SPICE, CHICKEN* . *DRIED
480 mg sodium per serving