Heinz Big Soup - Chicken and Vegetable

There a few items that I like to keep in my cupboard all year round and invariably you can find a good few tins of Heinz soups in there including Heinz Big Soup which is a firm favourite in our house when a quick hot warm lunch is called for. Although Big soup has been around for a while it may surprise you that it first made its appearance back in 1976 and where marketed as a 'real meal in a bowl'. I certainly was not aware of big soups until much later or maybe its because it was an item that my parents did not buy back then, I was only 7 at the time these hit the market. I first became ... more

I have always loved soup. As a child I preferred tomato soup, and the occasional bowl of chicken soup. Though as I've grown older, I prefer soup with 'bits' in. When I discovered the Big Soup options from Heinz, I couldn't believe how satisfying they were, and went exploring the range of flavours to see what they had on offer. This was when I came across the Heinz Big Soup chicken and vegetable soup. The soup can be found in the tins aisle of supermarkets, such as Tesco or Asda, alongside all the other soups. Though the range is easily recognised as each tin is wrapped with a green label, the ... more

Heinz Big Soup, Chicken and Vegetable flavour comes in a 400g tin with ring pull lid for easy opening that is made from recyclable Steel. The label has a picture of bowl of soup and chunk of bread on green background with the Heinz logo (just like the one in the picture above). The soup claims to have no artificial colours, preservatives or GM (genetically modified) ingredients, but it does use MSG (monosodium glutamate) as flavour enhancer, which is something some people may want to avoid. It's supposed to be 7% chicken and 32% vegetable. It costs 78p and can be found in most major ... more