Wayne Boatwright wrote:

> On Wed 19 Nov 2008 01:46:09p, Blinky the Shark told us...
>
> > Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> >> On Wed 19 Nov 2008 05:17:48a, john zeiss told us...
> >
> >>> Tomatoes 84%, vegetable oil, sugar, modified cornflour, salt, dried
> >>> skimmed milk, milk proteins, cream, spice extracts, herb extracts,
> >>> citric acid.
> >>>
> >>> I'm not a big fan of animal products and have no idea how scary
> >>> *modified* cornflour is, or what kind of oil, etc., etc.
> >
> >> As far as modified cornflour (we call it cornstarch), it is made from
> >> corn and there?s nothing dangerous about it. Vegetable oil may be
> >> made from a variety of different vegetables, but it is definitely not
> >> an animal product. Based on the list of ingredients, there appears to
> >> be no animal products in the Heinz product.
> >
> > "milk proteins"
> >
> > If one is adequately spooked by animal products, I'd say this is a red
> > flag.
> >
> >
>
> Then I'd say easily spooked. A little hard to have real cream of tomato
> soup without milk or cream.


A whiles back I made a creamy "Thai - style" tomato soup with *coconut*
milk, basil, ginger, and the like in the 'ole crockpot. Had cauliflower,
red bell pepper, etc., it was very tasty. The base was a can of V-8 juice I
had in the pantry plus a can of coco milk...


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Best
Greg