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>>>>I want to do a chicken one next, anyone got a favourite chicken soup
>>>>recipe?
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>>>> Every time I have made it I have mostly followed my grandmother's
>>>> recipe. The chicken would be an old "boiler" cooked slowly of
>>>> course. Home made stock. Soup always had corn in it She used to
>>>> scrape the corn off the cobs though, I use canned, lol. Potatoes,
>>>> carrots, onions and fresh peas. I always nixed the potatoes. Garlic
>>>> wasn't anything my nan ever used. I don't know anyone back in the
>>>> day who did use it now I come to think of it.
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>>> I don't have a recipe since my soup is never the same twice. I used
>>> to put peas in it but since Angela is allergic I don't do that any
>>> more. I always put onion, celery and carrot in there. Parsley too.
>>> Sometimes green beans. Sometimes some peppers or tomatoes if I have
>>> them. I usually use some pasta or rice. I only use potatoes if I
>>> am doing it like stew. But I don't make that often because if there
>>> is one thing Angela hates more than soup it is stew. She actually
>>> likes tomato soup. Weird because she hates tomatoes. But she won't
>>> eat any other kind of soup.
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>> I grew up on canned tomato soup (made with water, hate it made with
>> milk) and packet chicken noodle soup. Can't stand the chicken noodle
>> now but I still love tomato soup... I have never, that I can
>> recall, had home made tomato soup
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> I hate milk in tomato soup. I wouldn't eat it as a child. Now I do
> eat some that comes in a box. My mom was big on Campbell's soup.
> Lunch was usually soup. I liked Scotch Broth, Vegetable, Vegetarian
> Vegetable, Beef with Barley, Bean with Bacon and any of the Chicken
> and Noodle or Chicken and rice. Now the only ones I eat are Bean with
> Bacon and Beef with Barley and I don't eat them often.

If I buy commercial soups these days I buy the fresh sachets in the cold
section of the supermarket. Minestrone and chicken/corn are my
favourites and are two meals for me out of one sachet. They come without
additives and aren't highly salted like most canned stuff.