On Sun, 31 May 2015 18:35:23 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2015-05-31 6:15 PM, wrote:
>
>>> Looks good. I may be ready to try that stuff. I got sick of it years ago
>>> when I bought a case of those soups and pastas that you add water to
>>> and nuke. There was quite a selection showing on the front of the
>>> case. There was chicken noodle soup, potato leek, pasta prima vera, four
>>> cheese penne and a couple others. Once I got past the first row it was
>>> 1/4 chicken noodle and 3/4 potato leek, and the potato leek was the
>>> least tasty of them all. However... it was Know dried soups, so I know
>>> that the real McCoy would be much better.
>>
>> *Definitely* much better!
>
>
> I know it. I had had homemade leek and potato before that experience
>and it is really good. In fact.... it was even better with blue cheese
>crumpled and slightly broiled on top.

That's a good idea, the blue cheese. I like Parmigiano sprinkled on
soups such as cauliflower soup.

> It is just that I was sort of
>disappointed by the Costco - Knorr experience of being sucked into what
>was billed as a variety pack but which was more likely a marketing
>gimmick to dump a ton of product that was not selling,,...... because it
>sucked.

Quite likely

>This is another one of those cases where I begrudge my wife her low carb
>diet. She avoids things high in carbs. I think about great soups I have
>had, like potato leek and potato, corn and bacon, and why it is a waste
>of time for me to make it because by the time I finish it I will be sick
>of it.

FWIW, I did the low carb thing about 13 years ago and found after some
time that I could get away with eating spuds, they didn't seem to slow
my weight loss in any noticeable way. Things like bread were another
matter entirely.