Campbells Condensed Soup missing from the shelves

I use condensed mushroom soup now and then for a tuna pasta thing - it’s my go-to very lazy meal for when I just can’t be bothered or am too tired to cook.
Surprisingly tasty though - with frozen peas.
I can usually find it in a local big Asda.

I have never used canned soup in a casserole. In fact never buy canned soup. I have a cupboard full of cook books dating from the 1930s including some in French and Spanish and not one advocates the use of canned soup.

There are many products that are full of ingredients that none of us have in our kitchens.

Unfortunately Campbells Condensed Chicken soup isn't one of them.

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Below are the chicken soup ingredients, why on earth would anyone use this for a casserole, pasta dish etc?
Surely it’s healthier a cheaper to make the recipes from scratch.

Water, Rapeseed Oil, Modified Maize Starch, Chicken (4%), Wheat Flour (contains Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Thiamin, Niacin), Milk Proteins, Salt, Double Cream (Milk), Dried Chicken Stock, Flavourings, Autolysed Yeast, Yeast Extract, Potato Starch, Spices, Sage Extract, Garlic Extract, Onion Oil.

Appears to me the ingredients list is quite full of potential dairy allergens, animal by products, and rapeseed oil. No thank you - I can make an easy substitute for a tin in a few moments.

there are lots of people who depend upon things like tinned soup for their daily sustenance.
not everyone is as well set up, or educated, or just able to cook everything.
and there is not much incentive to do elaborate cooking if you are surviving on your own.
plus people like my neighbour, who can't manage to eat more solid food at the moment.
and no, i can't rustle up a consomme or casserole for her. or for myself.
some people can't drive, most can, and it makes life easier, even without owning a car, can rent one.
some people can't cook.
shall we wear a shroud of shame, to make it easier to be despised, mocked, crowed over.
it's a skill that's best learnt young, by experience.
some haven't had that experience.
now where can i find my tinned soups, esp chunky.

I can cook and 99% of the time do so from scratch, but just occasionally I don’t and these soups are handy at a push.
MrJ found some today in B&M, now Batchelors soup.
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I certainly didn't learn to cook. but it is not exactly difficult, I started with the She 15 Minute Cookery Book, then bought the Penguin Cookery book, plus reading every recipe I came across in in a book, magazine and newspaper.

What I was driven by was a love of good food, interesting flavours and an insatiable curiosity - and the high standard of cookery I was used to at home.

I appreciate the ingredients in this chicken soup will obviously not appeal to vegans. but most of us are not vegans and that doesn't bother us..

I see no reason to feel morally inferior because now and again I use a tin of soup or a packet of sauce when preparing a dish rather than preparing the sauce from scratch.

Someone on here mentioned the unavailability of smaller tins.
I have started buying small baked beans and tomatoes where I see them and wish that more canned stuff was available in smaller sizes eg tuna/salmon/. I am just fed up with seeing the opened tin in the fridge threatening me and making me feel guilty for not eating it all up.
I suppose it is just as expensive to manufacture the tins, and transport them and they don’t make economic sense either but still I like the choice of being able to store lots of different products in smaller quantities without waste.

I sometimes find I’m clean out of scratch and that other elusive “ingredient” inclination🙃

Grannmarderby 🤣🤣

Tuna comes in three packs of small tins. i buy them for a friend who lives alone. likewise baked beans, most shops stock small and large sizes.

Instead of putting the excess in the fridge, why not pop it into a small plastic container and put it into the freezer until you fancy salmon again. All my leftovers end up in the freezer unless I have an identified need to use them in something else in the next 2 days.

Ah! Oreo Nestle sterilised thick cream …not seen that for ages.

it's not a good idea to store opened tins in the fridge.
there can be chemical reactions between the food and the metal or coating of the tin, which start when exposed to air.
best to decant, into bowl with saucer atop, or buy those special little storage containers.
the ones with a clip on the side are easier to open.

I used to buy tins of condensed chicken soup for cooking chicken in the oven, honestly it was so delicious but due to having had a stroke several years ago I no longer cook much unless I have a carer with me to help. I did make lentil soup recently with the carers help and I’m going to make more for the new year when I’m getting visitors staying over, itll go down with some crusty bread and butter. Yum yum

I always make soup but yesterday Dh and I shared a Heinz can of broccoli and Stilton (my favourite). It was actually revolting!
No more canned soup for us!

try a different make.

We always used their tomato rice soup, so disappointed when they ceased production.

Thank you for advising us, tanith - 23/12/2023. I too have been trying to get hold of Campbells Condensed Soup. I have loads of dishes I make with it and it makes everything so creamy, I tried all the supermarkets including Tesco, M & S, Sainsbury, Co-op etc. but no one else could tell my why it wasn't stocked.
Really miss not seeing it. Roll on March, 2024 - I do hope this applies to the UK.