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[summerthyme]

Thanks, All. For our food pantry prepping guide, I have several different quick and easy recipes that we like. I include in my preps all the different ingredients to make those recipes. The creamed soups are vital ingredients. Either I'm gonna have to come up with different recipes, or figure out substitutes for the cream soups. Not all of our food prep recipes depend on these, but a lot of them do. Maybe I can come up with more recipes that are bouillon based instead.

I'm gonna check out a few more grocery stores, before I give up.

I'm not home right now, but when we get back, I'll look up the recipes I have for dried "cream soup" mixes. Not quite as convenient as opening a can, but vacuum packed or sealed with O2 absorbers, they store a long time. Sort of the equivalent of the packets in Hamburger Helper or some of the pasta boxed mixes.

Summerthyme

 

[SouthernBreeze]

I'm not home right now, but when we get back, I'll look up the recipes I have for dried "cream soup" mixes. Not quite as convenient as opening a can, but vacuum packed or sealed with O2 absorbers, they store a long time. Sort of the equivalent of the packets in Hamburger Helper or some of the pasta boxed mixes.

Summerthyme

Thanks for the offer, Summerthyme. When you have time, that would be great knowledge to have.

I checked out several more grocery stores in the area, yesterday, while out shopping. Every place I went, pop top lids on all cream soups, and I saw more and more canned veggies with those tops, too. I guess I will continue to use up all the canned soups I have on hand, then restock with only a few cans at a time. I'm also planning to switch out some of my food prep recipes that call for cream soup bases with more that use only bouillon based ones. I've got lots of bouillon cubes that have a very long shelf life. I like variety in our food preps, though. In a SHTF situation, food fatigue isn't something a person wants to have.