All Campbells soups are expensive these days-including my favorite, good old chicken noodle. Hate to spend close to two bucks for a simple can of soup. I did notice the condensed soups are thicker. Yes, good they took out the water and are delicious in recipes. Tonight I'm making tuna noodle casserole.

Campbell's is the only soup we buy, but I wait till it's on sale, usually for less than 50cents a can.

I use mushroom soup in my scalloped potatoes.

I've been buying my can soup from Family dollar or Dollar general and they are about 50-65 cents a can. Not many varieties but a good buy and a good product. These work great in casserole dishes, you can't tell the difference.

I am not happy with today's Campbell's Soup. They used to be good for spicing up a recipe. Now you have to spice up the darn soup to use it.

Tomato Soup used to be rich,thick red. Now it's a sick looking runny orange.

They kept reformulating the product to keep up with the latest health crazes and ruined a good product.

I think those who used it in the 50's, 60's and early 70's will know what I mean.

The last few cans if chicken noodle have looked the same as always, but are completely flavourless. Not sodium reduced or anything, just greasy water.

Chicken noodle, tomato, and vegetable used to be the cheapest with cream of mushroom next, then the rest of the cream of next. I nearly croaked when I saw that cream of mushroom was over 1 dollar per can, and the chicken noodle and tomato were at 99 cents!

Dances.

I ate them when I was younger, but now they give me indigestion. They have been expensive for long time now. I did try a can of the high dollar soup, Progresso or something like that it didn't bother me and was very good. It's not expensive when you think of it as a meal.

Wildchild-I do remember back in the 50's when Campbells tonmato was bright red, now a sickly orange. My Grandma used to (gag!) pour straight tomato soup over spaghetti, and she "doctored" tomato soup with milk, butter and sugar.

There are a few store brands that I love. Hytop is NOT ONE OF THEM! YUCK ON EVERTHING HYTOP SELLS.

We have a safe-a-lot where I live and I just love that little store. They sell alot of mom and pop brands that are really, really good but just do not have the advertisement of alot of national brands.

I like supporting mom and pop brands..they are trying to make it and I will do what I can to help them IF they are of good quality and price.

I like the Campbell's Tomato Bisque.

We like the Healthy Choice brand EXCEPT for their Tomato Basil -- too thin. Progresso is better for that flavor.

I would like it if Healthy Choice went to the tab-top cans though. I threw out our electric can opener when it died; we don't open many cans that don't have tab-tops.

I rarely buy Campbell's any more unless it is the cheapest brand. My kids like the chicken noodle. I can't stand it any more. I usually just buy cream of something or tomato to be used in a recipe for something else.

I've also started making my own soups. The kids begged me to make home made chicken noodle last week, but I didn't get past making the chicken. I'm making it tonight. I think we're going to have home made soups more often since they are nutricious and easy when I have the time to let them simmer.

I think Adellabedella's response points to why the "cream of" soups are more expensive nowadays (well, the other types are too, I know):

More people are using slow cookers, and many recipes for them require a flavorful liquid to hold things together, and more people are using "quick cook" recipes -- like skillet or casserole dishes -- that also frequently call for a "cream of mushroom" or "cream of celery" soup.

For other soups, as adella also mentions, more people are turning to throwing leftover veggies and meats into a pot and making their own soup.

(My homemade matzo ball chicken soup was a failure, tho!)

I will tell you this, there is no need to pay full price for soup. There are always.......always coupons available.

Every website that has coupons will have them and you can even find them on facebook. Homemade is way better than anything you can get in a can but if you don't have time then look for a coupon. My husband likes Progresso (Barf) but I buy it for him and I found plenty of Progresso coupons and stocked up when Wal-Mart had it on sale for $1.00...

Here is a link that might be useful: I can't look up all of them for you but start here.

I used to use and really like Campbell's Tomato soup, but now I hate it. It looks awful. What did they do to the colour? It's not red anymore. I switched. The only one I like anymore is the cream of celery.

The last time we bought canned soup was probably 3 years ago. And I think it was my mom that bought it. Chicken Noodle. I think I still have some.... I prefer home made soup.

I bought a bowl of the chunky chicken noodle at work the other day. I called the chicken in it mystery meat. It looked like spam and had the texture of jelly, so gross. I picked it all out and just ate the noodles and broth.

Just dawned on me: I think I may have bought one or two cans of cream of mushroom soup to cook my pork roasts in.

We like Lipton Noodle Soup instead. We throw in extra egg noodles and it seems to have more flavor than campbells.

I too use to love like thier chicken noodle,I only buy tomato I use in recipes,I like a cup of tomato occasionally but thats it.

We buy (actually my husband does) Progresso when it's on sale for $1. a can (or sometimes 2-for-1.

I have no problem with that brand, but always add an equal-sized can of stewed tomatoes, plus LOTS of fresh chopped vegetables, green cabbage, red bell peppers & green beans being my favorites. I also like to add half a small can of Rotel for some spiciness. I like my soups as thick as possible.

I'm sure there's currently some Cambell's soup cans in our larder, but can't remember opening one for a long time.

Oh my gosh..... Years ago, about 30, I used to buy their clam chowder. Loved it. We ate it with garlic bread as a meal.

I haven't bought canned soup for eons. I make my own soups and stews, but often use chicken or vegetable stock as a base.

Moni

We like the chunky soup from Target, it's way better than the Campbell's and cheaper. I also like the Save-a-lot Caskey brand of soups. Campbell's is just too expensive for the cream of soups...ridiculous! Also the box of chicken broth from Aldi is really really good too and it's only a $1 for a large sized box, about half the price of brand named stuff. The last time I made chicken paprika I used the boxed broth and it was really good!

This thread reminds me of staying in a vacation rental condo once where the owner made a big deal of leaving out her *personal* 'Recipe Box'. Of course I had to peek. Almost every card began, "Open a can of Campbell's Cream of (whatever) Soup..."

That still makes me smile.

Wow! Good to know I'm not alone in thinking that their soups have lost their flavor! I warmed the kids some Chicken Noodle Soup a couple of months ago, tasted the soup and spit it out. GROSS! I'm with Dances- flavorless, greasy water. I remember it tasting pretty yummy about a decade ago, what happened??

Blessings,
Haley

When I buy soup to eat as a soup, rather than added into something (like the cream of critter) I usually get the Chunky Soup. I like most of those. Occasionally, if I'm not feeling the greatest I'll go for a beef noodle or chicken noodle but those need to be Campbells. I haven't found a generic that I like in either the chunky or the "noodle" ones.

I've gotten away from using cream soups in things too so I don't buy it often. I've found a few generics I find OK but if I want to be sure of a consistent result, I still go with Campbells.

And I've never been able to stomach tomato soup unless it's in something like chili or sloppy joes. I'm just not a tomato freak.