On Mar 30, 5:04*pm, "pavane" > wrote:
> "cybercat" > wrote in ...
>
> | For me, it is sugar. LEAVE THE *&%$ing sugar out of entrees and savory side
> | dishes, people! (Salt is a problem too, but at least too salty food is still
> | edible most of the time.)
> |
> | This is a cooking group (kind of lol) but we all use prepared foods
> | sometimes. Due to work, family activities and house renovation (not kitchen,
> | unfortunately) I have not been cooking much, instead grabbing a sandwich,
> | salad or soup. So I see this store brand tomato soup that looks really
> | good--it is not condensed, and it is called "Tomato Basil," and the brand is
> | Harris Teeter, which has a rep for pretty good quality. I make the grilled
> | cheese, add some red pepper to the soup, taste it, and just want to pour it
> | down the sink. It was all sugar. Dead sweet. Sweet as tomatoes are, the
> | third ingredient in this stuff is sugar, and then there is a "Contains less
> | than 2% of the following" and what follows included high fructose corn
> | syrup. And it also has 960 mgs of sodium in half the can. Bleah.
>
> It is not exactly "prepared foods" but I would love to see a halt to the
> villainous process of adding brine and other salty water to fresh meats.
> This month the normal supermarket packagings of corned beef had an
> added "up to 35%" of brine or other crap. *Target and Wal-Mart are
> notorious for adulterated beef of this type. *Almost all hams have stuff
> added. *It's just crap, I tell you. *Crap!
>

Prepared foods should come with a little side package of TNT so that
you can blow them up real good.
Now having said that, I found one small little/supermarket which sells
a pretty good deli roast beef. Not too salty. That's not the norm
however.

> pavane