On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:18:07 -0600, DreadfulBitch
> wrote:

>On 2/4/2014 7:56 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>
>> Used to be in this country, canned soup was considered the food of the
>> poor because you could get it for really cheap or sometimes free if you
>> had coupons, particularly if your store doubled or tripled those
>> coupons. Didn't apply to all soups. Was usually the Campbell's tomato,
>> chicken and noodle and cream of mushroom. I suspect that a lot of
>> recipes involved using the cream of mushroom soup only because people
>> could get it so cheap and likely had tons of it in the house.
>
>Uhh...um...wha? On what planet were you raised? Growing up we were
>hardly poor but we always had soup in the house for this, that or the
>other thing. I was such a snot as a kid I used to feel sorry for the
>families that used coupons. It game me a completely misplaced sense of
>superiority. But, I digress... Campbell's chicken noodle soup was the
>standard meal for us when we were kids and Campbell's tomato soup was
>perfect with a grilled cheese sandwich on a cold winter day. If we had
>"tons" of it in the house it was because my parents could afford it and
>there was never any need to worry about the cost of food - or anything
>else for that matter.

I like Campbell's tomato soup for lunch on a cold day when we get home
from shopping. I generally keep 2 or 3 cans in the pantry. Grilled
cheese goes perfectly with it.

>> Those three are still usually the cheapest of the soups as sales go but
>> the coupons I've seen for them don't give you much money off and often
>> you have to buy three of them. I think such soups could be had for
>> around 10 cents a can when I was a kid. By the time I was a young
>> adult, they were perhaps 25 cents and now I've sometimes seen them at
>> three for $1.00 Note that these are the sale prices.
>
>Please note that above comments are YOUR experience, Julie Bove, and
>from YOUR grocery. Even on sale I've never seen any of the most used
>soups for anything anywhere near three for a dollar. If they are the
>first thing I would do is check the "best used by" date.

Cheapest I've seen Campbell's tomato/mushroom/chicken noodle is two
for $1.00. That was a couple of weeks ago. I stocked up a bit.

Doris