this will blow your mind. not the soup,(even thought it was very good) but what i am about to tell you. i decided to make a batch of tomato and basil soup for my clients to have around for a few days. i got off to a late start and was getting pretty hungry myself. i came across an "organic tomato and basil soup" while i was at the market. i bought it. even though i was making my own, it would not have been ready in time for lunch, and i get grumpy when i'm hungry (my husband calls it mean). when i got home i looked on the back of the soup to see the ingredient list. i rarely (pretty much never) buy "premade" food. lesson learned, look before you purchase. i could not believe how much crap was in this "organic soup". it was disgusting. bare with me on this and let me list all the ingredients, there are a lot of them. then compare it to the one i made. i hope it turns your stomach as it did mine.
ingredients: tomato juice from concentrate (water, tomato paste, evaporated cane juice, basil), milk, diced tomatoes in juice (tomatoes, tomato juice, sea salt, calcium chloride, citric acid), cream, tomato paste, vegetable base,(vegetables and concentrated vegetables[carrots, celery, onion, and tomato], salt, autolyzed yeast paste, cane sugar, soy sauce (water, soybean, salt, alcohol), maltodextrin, natural flavor, potato starch, autolyzed yeast extract, dried onion, dried garlic and spice, canola oil, water, wheat flour, evaporated cane juice, cornstarch, cultured dextrose on maltodextrin, basil, garlic, salt, tamari soy sauce (water, soybeans, salt, alcohol), citric acid, spices. phew. what the heck is maltodextrin and autolyzed yeast paste? not to mention alcohol?
my ingredient list: roma tomatoes, olive oil, onions, garlic, canned plum tomatoes, fresh basil, fresh thyme, chicken stock, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper.
the original recipe can be found here. i used only 3 tablespoons of olive oil in my recipe and no butter. i also put everything in a blender for a smooth consistency, and removed the seeds from the roma's before roasting. the photo is before i blended it.
which one would you want to eat?
