Soup

[Susco]

As the title says that's what I like, and I don't mean those powdered minute soups to which you add hot water, but a thick vegetable soup with cream which is ready to eat.

 

I know I can prepare it myself, but if i wanted to do that, I would not start this thread.

 

Recently they had 1 liter brick packs of mixed vegetable soup at Big C Xtra for 99 Baht, which were good in both price and quality, but they don't have them any more.

 

I found frozen spinach soup at Makro, but however it tastes good, the portions are small for the price.

 

So any suggestions where I could buy something like this in the Pattaya area are welcomed.

[champers]

Baxter's Pea and Ham & Leek and Potato are creamy. 88 Baht per tin at supermarkets.

[Denim]

When i lived in Manchester, Tesco had an excellent range of fresh soups ready to heat and eat. Their Mulligatorny was to die for. Oxtail was also excellent. 

 

Don't know why they don't sell them here. Very popular in Manchester. 

[Surelynot]

1 hour ago, champers said:

Baxter's Pea and Ham & Leek and Potato are creamy. 88 Baht per tin at supermarkets.

OMG....you cannot beat Baxter's..........

[champers]

33 minutes ago, Surelynot said:

OMG....you cannot beat Baxter's..........

Their Scotch Broth is my favourite but I haven't seen it here.

[Surelynot]

9 minutes ago, champers said:

Their Scotch Broth is my favourite but I haven't seen it here.

Not sure about the Scotch Broth.....but Foodland have a decent range and Villa Market.......

[prk888]

Siamburis have both Mulligatawny and Oxtail.  Not seen Scotch Broth there

[redwood1]

Well you don't seem to concerned about you health....Most Canned soups have loads of bad things like monosodium glutamate, soy, all kinds of perseverative etc.....It's frightening to read the labels.....

 

[n210mp]

Soup!!!

 

My God its not "Rocket science is it!

 

Fresh veg from the market (your own choice) .

 

one Pan large or small ,  1 or 2 stock cubes , pepper and salt  to taste plus for me personally  a little  hot spice or.

 

 Fry a little  chicken, pork or whatever maybe with some diced onion ,  when meat sealed or cooked on the outside  bring the lot to the boil and then simmer for 20 minutes!

 

I use a big pan, let it cool down after its simmered and then divide the contents into maybe 5/6 small plastic containers and freeze.

 

As you gain experience you will automatically add whatever bits and pieces  you like.

 

Cost under 100 Baht for 6 lovely home cooked healthy meals 

 

[bojo]

21 minutes ago, n210mp said:

My God its not "Rocket science is it!

 

Fresh veg from the market (your own choice) .

I hear you and make many a homemade one regularly, but I gotta say...................I do love a tinned soup. I don't know what they put in them, but with all those E's and preservatives, (can't live without my msg!!) the canned variety really do trump alot of homemade versions IMO.............

[jacko45k]

7 hours ago, Denim said:

When i lived in Manchester, Tesco had an excellent range of fresh soups ready to heat and eat. Their Mulligatorny was to die for. Oxtail was also excellent. 

 

Don't know why they don't sell them here. Very popular in Manchester. 

Yes they were selling UK stock here for a while but that seems to have finished a long time ago. There are tins of Heinz soups available on Lazada, which I find better than the concentrated stuff, and also far better than powdered.

[Kerryd]

Note the OP is talking about "creamy" soups.

Villa, Foodland, Friendship, Siamburis, Tops. They all have canned soups though the selection varies from store to store.

It's all those "additives" that make them taste so good. Try making a "cream of mushroom" soup by heating some regular cream and plopping some diced mushrooms into it.
Ain't going to taste anywhere near as good.  Same for things like chicken noodle soup. Even a simple vegetable soup needs a little "extra" to give it some taste otherwise it's just boiled vegetables in a bowl.

And those "extras" usually include salt. 
BTW - most people have no clue about what "MSG" actually is or it's affects.

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given MSG its generally recognized as safe (GRAS) designation. It is a popular belief that MSG can cause headaches and other feelings of discomfort, known as "Chinese restaurant syndrome", but blinded studies show no such effects when MSG is combined with food in normal concentrations, and are inconclusive when MSG is added to broth in large concentrations. The European Union classifies it as a food additive permitted in certain foods and subject to quantitative limits. MSG has the HS code 29224220 and the E number E621."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate

Note the article makes no mention of cancer risk being associated with MSG.

Another article notes:
"Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)
In 1987, the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that monosodium glutamate was safe. "

(The same "WHO" that not long ago stated that processed meats like bacon "probably are a cancer risk". "Probably". Meaning they don't know and are just saying that to cover their as*.)

Most people's perception of MSG is based on "old wives tales", which seem to have started around 1968 when a doctor, who was investigating something called "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" wrote a paper claiming that MSG was the culprit.
It seems his "evidence" was anecdotal (i.e. evidence such as "my friend said he got a headache after eating Chinese food" or "I know a guy who worked with someone who claimed they got a headache after eating Chinese food".)

The same kind of "evidence" that some people tout when trying to sell healing crystals and other hokum.

(Like most things though, too much of anything can be bad for you. Except Bacon. Too little bacon may be bad for you but I don't think it's possible to have too much bacon !)

[redwood1]

37 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

Note the OP is talking about "creamy" soups.

Villa, Foodland, Friendship, Siamburis, Tops. They all have canned soups though the selection varies from store to store.

It's all those "additives" that make them taste so good. Try making a "cream of mushroom" soup by heating some regular cream and plopping some diced mushrooms into it.
Ain't going to taste anywhere near as good.  Same for things like chicken noodle soup. Even a simple vegetable soup needs a little "extra" to give it some taste otherwise it's just boiled vegetables in a bowl.

And those "extras" usually include salt. 
BTW - most people have no clue about what "MSG" actually is or it's affects.

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given MSG its generally recognized as safe (GRAS) designation. It is a popular belief that MSG can cause headaches and other feelings of discomfort, known as "Chinese restaurant syndrome", but blinded studies show no such effects when MSG is combined with food in normal concentrations, and are inconclusive when MSG is added to broth in large concentrations. The European Union classifies it as a food additive permitted in certain foods and subject to quantitative limits. MSG has the HS code 29224220 and the E number E621."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate

Note the article makes no mention of cancer risk being associated with MSG.

Another article notes:
"Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)
In 1987, the Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that monosodium glutamate was safe. "

(The same "WHO" that not long ago stated that processed meats like bacon "probably are a cancer risk". "Probably". Meaning they don't know and are just saying that to cover their as*.)

Most people's perception of MSG is based on "old wives tales", which seem to have started around 1968 when a doctor, who was investigating something called "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" wrote a paper claiming that MSG was the culprit.
It seems his "evidence" was anecdotal (i.e. evidence such as "my friend said he got a headache after eating Chinese food" or "I know a guy who worked with someone who claimed they got a headache after eating Chinese food".)

The same kind of "evidence" that some people tout when trying to sell healing crystals and other hokum.

(Like most things though, too much of anything can be bad for you. Except Bacon. Too little bacon may be bad for you but I don't think it's possible to have too much bacon !)

 

Say what you will but MSG makes me feel like <deleted> poop when ever I eat any food that has (added) (man- made) msg....Unless its only a tiny amount........I have tested this out 1,000s of times over the years....

 

Man made MSG is not safe for untold millions of people who have a bad reaction to it......And that's a fact....

Edited May 25, 2021 by redwood1

[Susco]

2 hours ago, Kerryd said:

Note the OP is talking about "creamy" soups.

Villa, Foodland, Friendship, Siamburis, Tops. They all have canned soups though the selection varies from store to store.

 

Probably explained myself incorrectly, due to the fact I'm not English native, what I mean is ready to eat soups, and I have noticed that most of them have a tad of cream added.

 

Tinned soups is not what I consider ready to eat soups, and i'm aware of their existences here.

 

What I'm looking for is something like this, which has been available at Big C Xtra for a short period of time recently.

 

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3 hours ago, n210mp said:

Soup!!!

 

My God its not "Rocket science is it!

 

 

It is even less rocket science to read the OP before you reply

 

13 hours ago, Susco said:

I know I can prepare it myself, but if i wanted to do that, I would not start this thread.

 

[Bruno123]

There is also French soup sold in glass jars: REFLETS DE FRANCE; in TOPS for instance Possibly also Big C Extra. But if you are baulking at Makro prices, you won't be impressed.

They also have Pola Pola brand Spinach/Mushroom and Pumpkin soups at 90 baht for 170 gr.

 

 

Edited May 25, 2021 by Bruno123

[Saltire]

https://paleorobbie.com/grocery_search?query=soup

 

These look good, as do these

 

https://expatfoodsthailand.com/?s=soup

 

 

 

 

Edited May 25, 2021 by Saltire

[redwood1]

8 minutes ago, Saltire said:

https://paleorobbie.com/grocery_search?query=soup

 

These look good.

 

 

 

This food looks great.....I am surprised this is in Thailand...

[Saltire]

1 hour ago, redwood1 said:

 

This food looks great.....I am surprised this is in Thailand...

I have been using PaleoRobbie for several years now.

 

Not so much for the soups and ready meals but for the lamb, beef, bacon etc.

 

Highly recommend. Bit pricy but you get top quality imported meats

 

 

[Susco]

I can notice already that the Casino soup available at Big C Xtra was a bargain, at 99 Bht for 1 Litre, which I guess is way over 1Kg, and I should have bought the whole stock ????

 

Makro I think is still acceptable at 125 Bht for 665 gram, and may give Palerobbie a try, as they have a quite nice selection.

 

Thanks for your replies so far

[Susco]

Big C had new stock today, and so do I, hmmmm

[thequietman]

20 hours ago, Surelynot said:

OMG....you cannot beat Baxter's..........

Yes you can ...... Campbells. ????

 

[sanuk711]

21 hours ago, Surelynot said:

OMG....you cannot beat Baxter's..........

You Can......................

 

 

[neytil]

Canned soup????   How gauche!!!! 

 

Edited May 25, 2021 by neytil

[n210mp]

19 hours ago, Susco said:

 

 

"It is even less rocket science to read the OP before you reply"

 

Susco

 

English, indeed may not be your native language  but you are certainly not short of vocabulary especially of the "sarcasm genre" are you !

 

But of course you are  quite correct and so I humbly apologies for my mistake  and hope it didn't offend your sensitivity too much . 

 

You will have noticed I did "like" your "acidy" response though !

 

On the other hand a preference for "Tinned" soups tells me more about you than anything you could ever  say or write  !

 

Ha ha ha ha 

 

[faraday]

15 hours ago, Saltire said:

Not so much for the soups and ready meals but for the lamb, beef, bacon etc.

Is the lamb good, does it tastes...well, like lamb?

 

I keep looking at the great selection, but I had a bad & relatively expensive experience with Makro lamb, & don't want to waste my money again.

 

Have you tried the beef?

 

But back to soup.????

 

Sainsbury's used to sell chicken & sweetcorn????+???? soup, which was awesome on a cold day. I made it once - quite a few years ago now. As I remember, it was very straightforward, as most soups are.

 

Baxter's Pea & Ham though....dear gawd it was nice.

 

 

 

[Susco]

3 hours ago, n210mp said:

On the other hand a preference for "Tinned" soups tells me more about you than anything you could ever  say or write  !

 

I think you missed the point again, as in the post you replied to, I explained that tinned soups is not what I consider ready to eat and not what I'm looking for. ????

 

Not sure either what it tells about me, if I don't want to spend an hour in the kitchen cooking and cleaning utensils, when all I want is a bowl of soup.

 

Why would I waste all that time, if I can have someone do it for me, and all I have to do is warm it up?

[Saltire]

2 hours ago, faraday said:

Is the lamb good, does it tastes...well, like lamb?

 

I keep looking at the great selection, but I had a bad & relatively expensive experience with Makro lamb, & don't want to waste my money again.

 

Have you tried the beef?

 

 

 

 

 

Yes I think the lamb is very good.

 

I regularly order the lamb shanks and lamb steaks, normally cook them for 4 to 6 hours in my slow cooker with some herbs, spices and vegetables. Never been disappointed, tastes like I remember Scottish lamb. Steaks are good for a curry too.

 

The imported beef is also excellent but so is the beef from Siamburis and is slightly cheaper. I do the steaks in a hot frying pan and they also come out very tender. Not seen lamb on SIamburi web site.

 

The best thing for me is PaleoRobbie and SIamburi's deliver to me in Kanchanaburi still frozen, which is great as they are sent from Bangkok and Pattaya respectively.

 

 

Never order Thai beef anymore.

 

[Lacessit]

I've found most canned soups here are expensive for what you get. If I feel like soup, restaurants here serving Western food usually have it on the menu. Butter is Better in Chiang Mai makes a good pea and ham? soup.

[n210mp]

1 hour ago, Susco said:

 

I think you missed the point again, as in the post you replied to, I explained that tinned soups is not what I consider ready to eat and not what I'm looking for. ????

 

Not sure either what it tells about me, if I don't want to spend an hour in the kitchen cooking and cleaning utensils, when all I want is a bowl of soup.

 

Why would I waste all that time, if I can have someone do it for me, and all I have to do is warm it up?

 

 

Whatever you think is OK by me Susco but I didn't miss any points and  I can definitely understand why you are not sure what it tells me about you !

 

 

[Nojohndoe]

On 5/25/2021 at 7:29 AM, redwood1 said:

 

Say what you will but MSG makes me feel like <deleted> poop when ever I eat any food that has (added) (man- made) msg....Unless its only a tiny amount........I have tested this out 1,000s of times over the years....

 

Man made MSG is not safe for untold millions of people who have a bad reaction to it......And that's a fact....

I too have similar problem with manufactured MSG unless used in minimal amounts.

I can appreciate it's flavor enhancing effect but in Thailand it is used as meat tenderizer and an alternative to salt in quantities that are frightening !