Campbell's Powdered Soup kit
So I tried the beef and barley one today.
Pros:
Control the amount of meat, vegetables and salt in your soup. This is important to me because I water down the ready to eat canned soup because I find it too salty. I don't eat condensed soup so can't compare.
Cons:
Inconvenient: you have to buy the kit, beef, carton of broth and vegetables all separately. You can't just add water like other dry soups. You need a full carton of broth, or you can't make it. I didn't have any broth so had to make something else for dinner. The pouch needs a big label on the front pointing out that you need to buy ingredients.
Expensive- After having to buy all the ingredients, it came to about $12 for two people.
Time consuming - you have to cook it for 45 minutes (gotta cook the barley from a dry state). I feel like partially cooked stuff (like the Uncle Ben's Bistro Express rice) would save a lot more time.
Taste- tasted good, but not much different than the canned stuff to be honest.
