Is there a good kind of dry soup mix?

[Grumpy's Gal]

im making a box of stuff to send to someone who is going thru a rough financial time. Can someone recommend a GOOD brand of dry soup mix?

 

[nj disney family]

my wife and kids enjoy the Lipton brand chicken noodle soup. the kids like it for lunch. not a brand, but our local Amish market carries a good selection of dry soup mixes that are good.

 

[bcla]

The best ones I've seen aren't really any kind of national name brand, but at specialty markets that kind of mix dry ingredients in a bag to be cooked.

 

[NeedMoreMickey]

Have you ever tried Tastefully Simple? It was originally home party thing but now items can be purchased from their website. It's a little more mone than things at the grocery store but I love everything I've tried. The potato cheddar soup and beer bread makes a nice meal. I make almond cake from scratch and my husband likes Tastefully Simple box mix just as much as mine.

 

[LongLiveRafiki]

My favorites are Mrs. Grass and Bear Creek.

 

[Caseheidi]

We also love the Bear Creek soups.

 

[AquamarineSteph]

Lipton is a classic go to brand for dry soup, but Bear Creek is also good. You have far more variety with Bear Creek in my experience.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I buy these, they are delicious. And most (? all) are low sodium if that's a consideration.

http://www.frontiersoups.com/

 

[Sugardimples]

Bear Creek. Creamy Potato and Minestrone are the best!

 

[Turn the Page]

I sort of like Bear Creek soups. They are just SUPER salty. Especially if you are used to cutting back on your sodium intake the Bear Creek brand soups taste like you're licking a salt brick.

 

[blana]

DH loves the Lipton Chicken Noodle or just their Noodle soups. I think they're fine.

 

[Frozen Canuck]

Our absolute favourite soup mix is Buckeye Beans Chicken & Thyme Soup. It is healthy, filling, delicious, and free of additives/chemicals. However, while the soup mix comes with the grains/lentils and a seasoning packet, it does not include the onion or the raw chicken (or chicken broth, if using boneless, skinless chicken breasts, though it would be easy enough to include a jar of Better than Bouillon Chicken in with the other items so that the recipient can make as much chicken broth as they need.) Carrots or celery could be added to enrich it even further. I am going to say that I am not sure what retail locations carry this brand. I have seen it online, but I purchase my boxes in the food section of Home Goods/Marshalls when I can find them there.

Our "everyday" soup mix that I whip up for the kids and I for lunches is Lipton Ring Noodle. I make dumplings from an egg, salt, milk, and flour and drop them into the soup to make it more filling.

 

[soccerdad72]

I'll second Mrs. Grass' chicken noodle (extra noodle version). That's our go-to soup for something easy when one of the kids is sick.

 

[Julylady]

Mrs. Grass is our favorite. But, they have a ton of salt.

 

[bcla]

Started thinking about it, and there are some nationally distributed brands of soup mixes. They're not just reconstituted with hot water like Lipton, but need to be simmered. Bob's Red Mill is mostly about grain and flour, but they also have soup mixes.

I was imagining some markets with bulk food sections where they're prepared a mix that needs a little bit of cooking. Something like this:

Also - I've seen Kikkoman miso soup in dry packets. It's not really anything filling, but it's actually quite good and similar to the miso prepared in Japanese restaurants.

 

[Grumpy's Gal]

Thank you all SO MUCH! I hadn't thought about it but I guess I've never bought a dry soup mix!! I appreciate your help!

 

[mousefan73]

Knorr!! They have tons of sauce packets and overseas tons of soups. Have seen them in the states

 

[Happiest.Haunt_999]

Lipton and Mrs. Grass.