Introduction
I go to Tesco Metro for my daily lunch shopping. I usually buy fruit and vegetables with some fish or seafood though I try to have at least one completely meat free lunch once a week. When looking for a light meal that's healthy, vegetarian and also filling, soups are a great ... Read review
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Advantages: Low fat, low sugar, taste, price Disadvantages: High salt content
Introduction
I go to Tesco Metro for my daily lunch shopping. I usually buy fruit and vegetables with some fish or seafood though I try to have at least one completely meat free lunch once a week. When looking for a light meal that's healthy, vegetarian and also filling, soups are a great option. The fresh Tesco soup range has 7 options in total, with 3 chicken, 1 with cheese and 3 vegetable soups which make 4 varieties suitable for vegetarians. ... ...I was pleasantly surprised.
Tesco Cream of Mushroom Soup 300g (1 serving) has recommended daily amounts of:
- very low calories (5%)
- very low fat (4%)
- low saturated fat (7%)
- low sugar (4%)
- high salt content (27%)
New Covent Garden Wild Mushroom Soup 300g (1 serving) has recommended daily amounts of:
- low calories (8%)
- low fat (8%)
- high saturated fat (20%)
- very low sugar (2%)
- very high salt content (38%)
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Advantages: A microwaveable cup for only 46p Disadvantages: Everything else except the soup itself
..., Forest Mushroom, and Chicken and Golden Sweetcorn. Source: Tesco web site.
On to the facts about what I’d bought. It’s called Cup Soup (not Cup-a-soup because that’s something else with someone else owning the brand name). Its 275 ml of soup in a plastic container, with a use-by date about 12 months away. Take off the plastic lid, remove the thin film covering the soup, lid back on and into the microwave for just over a minute, take it out, (the packaging carefully warns that the cup may be hot), lid off, stir the contents with an implement not supplied, lid on, leave for a minute, and you have a container of delicious Heinz cream of tomato soup ready to warm your inside these cold winter days. Drink it down, lid on or lid off and in no time at all the cup is empty.
However it was at this point that my wife asked the question “have you...
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