Shop bought soup

[Merlin5]

I'm really into soup at the moment. When I was ill a few weeks ago, someone brought me these chicken sweetcorn and minestrone soups from Tesco

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/256727278
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/252074353

They're so chunky and delicious. I'm hooked on them. I've always bought cheap tinned soup and they're so meh compared to those; thin, watery and not moreish. I don't want tinned soup anymore. Even Heinz is not very good and often have a weird aftertaste.

Tonight I tried Covent Garden soup for the first time. Creamy chicken soup. Not chunky like the others but really delicious and creamy with plenty of chicken pieces.
I've got another Covent Garden soup in the fridge, I think it's smoked bacon and lentil.

All these soups are 600g, half as much again as a standard tin and are between £1.50 and £2.50.
Do you have a favoured soup you buy?

 

[Merlin5]

No croutons, krooton?


Yes, I really should be thinking about making my own soups as I've got the tools and as had been said, make a lot and freeze.


I've got a liquid blender attached to my stand mixer and I've just acquired from my dear mum an old Braun electric hand blender which I've just cleaned up and it works beautiful, very quiet.

What would be an easy, chunky soup to make, and with the hand blender in a big pot on the hob, or standing blender? Something along the lines of the tesco chunky minestrone. I'd also really like to try and make a chicken and sweetcorn like you get in chinese restaurants. The Tesco one is like that.

 

[Merlin5]

Just had some maris piper and leek, very nice. Tomorrow I shall try the lentil 'n smoked bacon.