Is there a decent bought soup anywhere?

[HomewardHound]

I normally make my own soup. Right now I’m ill and after setting off the fire alarm last week by forgetting the stove, I am reluctant to try again at the moment.

Over the last few days I have tried many stores soups. They are revolting. M&S chicken and vegetable tasted like it had chemicals in it (it probably does). Waitrose chicken and veg broth was the same.

Thee must be SOMEWHERE that does a decent soup. It’s not hard to make so there must be something in them to preserve them I guess?

We’re in a city so have access to places like Leon and Pret etc as well as the supermarkets. Do any of them do a decent soup. Just want something not messed about and full of rubbish. As fresh as possible.

TIA

New Covent Garden soup, available from many supermarkets.

New Covent Garden soup is really nice! I like the skinny chicken one. The soup in the fridge section are nicer than can ones I think

Covent Garden soups are the best bought ones imo. But they are still not a patch on homemade. I find all bought soup too salty.

Baxters soups are good. Carrot and butterbean really tasty.

Chicken Katsu curry one from Pret A Manger was lush
Gf and df too

Daylesford Organic chicken and chorizo soup from Waitrose is absolutely delicious. I lived on it for the first few weeks after I had given birth.

Eat. does amazing soup. You can look on their website for the week's menu.

Try Cully and Sully from Tesco -they are really nice, especially the vegetable one.

I know what you mean OP. Almost all ready made soup, even the posh, fresh, natural looking ones are horrible compared with home made. I really don't know what they do with them.

But strangely, I prefer canned tomato soup (Baxters or M&S own brand only, not Heinz) but it seems a bit thick, so I mix a bit of vegetable stock in with mine to thin it down a bit.

I make my own soup too and agree with you about most of them tasting awful. Eat is pretty good though.

Cully & Sully Pea and Mint. I’m addicted. All their soups are lovely though.

I love most of the soups Pret a Manger do but from the supermarket I absolutely love Yorkshire provender soups. In fact I have some almost every day for my lunch. My favourite is the roast chicken which tastes homemade, the beetroot is delicious but I've honestly never had a horrible one. Waitrose seem to have the biggest range or the coop

Ps sorry you are feeling ill

Pret soups are lovely!
I think the M&S fresh plastic tub ones are good - have only tried the veggie ones, but the tomato and lentil one is good and they do one with beans and barley which is good too.

I tried the Thai chicken from Yorkshire Provender and it wasn’t as bad as some of the others but I wouldn’t buy it again.

It’s like bought gravy, there’s something just not quite right. DH says tinned soups are better but he’s a child of the 70s 😁

Will get him to bring me something from Eat or Pret and will try the Covent Garden ones again. Thanks

I’ll second Yorkshire Provender, their Roast Chicken is the only bought soup I have. I did try Covent Garden but found all the ones I had very disappointing and wouldn’t buy again.

I lived on Yorkshire Provender cauliflower and cheese soup when dc3 was born. Probably not the healthiest option but it’s delicious.
I agree about bought soup generally, it’s rare for me to like one enough to buy it twice.

Sooverthemill Thanks it’s this blooming virus thing that’s going round, like a cough and cold with upset tummy.

Waitrose fresh soup is lovely. The chicken and veg one is delicious, quite chunky pieces of chicken and loads of veg.

The Cully & Sully chicken one is amazing - when i was pregnant I had it almost every day for my lunch for about 3 months

Covent Garden soups are grim. The people recommending them must not have tastebuds.

The best ones are Daylesford Organic (vv expensive though) or M&S fresh soups.

Tideford. You can only get them in Morrisons, Waitrose and from Ocado.

See I don't rate the M&S fresh soups Mustard.

The chicken, mushroom and rice one isn't bad, but I've had a couple of other ones that weren't nice at all.

I'm intrigued by the Cully & Sully ones though. Although I'm not sure I can bring myself to pay £1.75 for it, because when I make soup, which turns out much nicer than most bought ones, it's to use up the odds and sods of bendy veg plus a few lentils etc, so effectively free/not far off.

The Cully and Sully tomato soup is amazing. Only seen it in tescos though.

Yorkshire Provender soups are delish. I used to quite like New Covent Garden, but they're very bland compared to YP (I'm vegetarian, so can't comment on any flavour that has meat/fish in it though)