Just ok. Kinda reminded me of Spaghettios, but with veggies instead of meatballs. Tomato base, thick, lots of veggie chunks (peas, carrots, beans, green beans, corn) and some thoroughly abused pasta tubes. Poor little pasta tubes, never had a chance in that cold wet can. sigh.
A momentarily intriguing diversion, but not worth buying again.
I'm trying a bunch of lower-sodium (<100 mg) salsas, and so far most have been really good.
Thumbs Up:
Mama Vida's Smoked Corn & Black Bean (45 mg sodium and fantastic as a chip dip)Thumbs Down:
The Garlic Survival Company's Triple Garlic Salsa (sadly, this has gone missing from Whole Foods)
Trader Joe's Pico de Gallo Salsa (100 mg sodium, but has a funky tang!)
Trader Joes's Roasted Garlic Salsa
Trader Joes's Hot & Smoky Chipotle Salsa
Whole Foods Fire Roasted Salsa, Chile Morita (also smoky!)
Timpone's sala muy rica (whoah, really good, 100 mg sodium though)
Trader Joe's Organic Salsa, mild (thaaat close to tasting exactly like ketchup)
Enrico's Organic Salsa, Hot (Better than TJ's Rganic, but still edging toward ketchup territory)
Good, but not good enough. Inferior to the Trader Joe's chili in flavor and textrue. It's WAY thick, and not as flavorful as TJ's, even after hitting it hard with additional garlic and onion.
Ok, new policy: I only bother calculating nutrition totals for soups I'd buy again. So no totals for this one. Not terrible, but totally failed to live up to it's enticing onion aroma. A letdown, especially after the the excellent TJ chili. This one also had the oddly-resistant chewy bits that I praised another soup for lacking.
323 calories, 1002 mg sodium, 12 g fiber
Yum! Preferred over the Health Valley veggie chili, but that could be due to burnout. Either way, I thoroughly enjoyed this. Very hearty, solid texture with no weird hard beans or anything, lots of spice (no temptation to add parmesan, which lets it slide on the extra 2 mg sodium). Lots of inclusion size variety, apparently due to a well executed ground beef analog made from soy, so this avoided looking like mud with beans stuck in it, as other veggie chilis can.
Buy again!
As below... buy again, but partly because I waited too long and forgot exactly what it was like. I *think* I liked it...
Update: Kind of interesting, but has a sweetness that seems out of place and eventually unwelcome. Thick and muddy, punctuated by those too-resistant beans. Not really interested in buying again.
Buy again... but partly because I waited too long and forgot exactly what it was like. I *think* I liked it...
Update: Not so hot. Maybe I'm just not a lentil fan. Improved with parmesan, but not enough.
I can't even be bothered to calculate the nutrition info because I hit this soup with everything I've got (garlic, onion, parmesan, celery seed...) and it was a waste of otherwise-effective spices. Blander than bland. Not buying it again.
I'm trying out lots of soups while I look for a replacement for my previously-beloved Progresso Minestrone. They changed it recently, and I don't like the new version, so I'm looking for alternatives, focusing on vegetarian soups with less than 1000 milligrams of sodium per can.
All nutrition numbers are per can, and some may be approximate.
