That brand has always been ridiculously expensive, but that has to be price gouging! When I was taking care of my Dad I did his grocery shopping and always bought him that brand because it was the only low-sodium brand available.
Soup is ridiculously EASY to make; I don’t think a week goes by that I don’t make homemade soup for us.
I wonder if food prices are going to force people to learn how to cook from scratch, or will they all perish in front of empty shelving where the soup USED to be? LOL!
Time will tell. ;)
Agree; a whole bag of potatoes still costs less than one can of Prog potato soup.
I also experienced a 25% lower price at my local Aldi for an identical can of store-brand chili vs an Aldi in a more prosperous area 10 miles away. That is wacky.
The economy of scale with homemade soup is harder for single people. Making a small pot of soup uses almost the same amount of gas or electric as for a large pot; but dividing a large pot into one-serving portions takes a lot of room in the freezer and bores you to death with the same soup too often in order to rotate it out.
I've stopped going the whole way and now am making starter soups to freeze—basically broth, onion, celery, maybe carrot or some kind of greens. Then I can add variety with meats, vegetables, cheese, cream, herbs. pasta, or leftovers when I'm ready to heat one serving. I keep a bag of meatballs in the freezer, and on the shelf some cans of chicken and fish and jars of boullion. My dried-food shelves have many varietes of beans, onion flakes, garlic, herbs, spices, peas, lentils, rice, quinoa, pasta, and many kinds of dried fruits.
I dread the day when I am too old to carry bulk groceries from the car and up the front steps.
Our church does a great job of recycling leftovers from group dinners, where there might be six gallons of soup or casseroles, 10 loaves of bread, several salads and half-dozen desserts are brought in, but only 60 people show up for the meal! The church kitchen always has plastic containers, and the old folks or singles can take some leftovers home. We also label and store leftover servings in the big church freezer for any congregational care needs, like illness, death in the family, new baby, etc. There's usually someone who will volunteer to assemble a meal or more from those donations, and drop it off at the person's house.