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Default Packet Soup Mixes


Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> In article >,
> Ranee Mueller > wrote:
>
> > Does _anyone_ use these to make soup? Was there ever a time that it
> > was common to do so?
> >
> > I occasionally use the Lipton beefy onion to make onion dip, or to
> > sprinkly on beef and cook in a tightly covered pan in the oven, and I
> > use Knorr vegetable soup mix for spinach dip. I can't imagine using
> > these things for soup. I did use an extra packet as the seasoning in a
> > pot of brown rice once, and that turned out alright, though not
> > spectacular.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ranee

>
> I loved Mrs. Grass Chicken-flavored Noodle Soup with the yellow "bath
> oil bead" of chicken fat! I fixed it a lot when the kids were little.
> Haven't for a long time, though. I like Bear Creek stuff and there's a
> local company that makes a goor-met packaged soup. That one's kina
> interesting -- doesn't TASTE salty but they've got nasty sodium contents.


Bear Creek soups AT LEAST USED TO BE nasty with trans fats.
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> -Barb
>

--Bryan