What Campbells Soup VP Says About Their Products and Customers

[rickymouse]

Campbells soup has lots of attractant chemistry in it which makes people crave it.  There is MSG in it, but because of maximum content of that chemistry they also add other glutamate chemistries.  I am not by a can so I can't say what is in it for sure, but it could be hydrolyzed soy protein, modified food or corn  starch, Yeast extract,or multiple other glutamate chemistry variations it has.  Then tack the mushroom chemistry to the list and it adds even more to the creation of dopamine and gaba in the body.

That is why people crave it so much in dishes.  Now some other store brands have way less ummami flavor in them.  But all that is legal, even though the MSG is now limited by regulations, the other chemistries added now boost the chemistry to make people want it.

We do have some in our food pantry, but I prefer some of the other brands with less of that doping chemistry.  But Meijers sends coupons for a free can orthirty five cents off a can quite often, so we buy it when it is discounted.  Discounted and at a buck a can to begin with because of the seven for seven bucks sales mix or match.  Usually when we do shop Meijers we buy things on sale we use and put them into rotation in our pantry, so we tend to buy a lot when the prices are on the best sales.  Last time we went, we spent a hundred six bucks but saved about seventy off the full price at the store...  sometimes we even save more than  half of the total bill..so we get say sity bucks worth for say twenty five bucks.  But since we can do that, we are always saving money, so I can't say we saved half, we never pay full price for food...to us, it is just our regular price.  I just bought eight five pound bags of potatoes last trip, they were a buck a bag, but thee the regular price is three bucks...never pay that much.  I have not paid more than two bucks a five pound bag in many years, and the two dollar bag is when there is not too great a sale...but the deer still want their spuds. 

We are frigal, people talk about the big increase in grocery prices, we actually have noticed very little increase the way we buy...but to do this, it requires you to have stock...sugar goes down about three times a year, and we always buy pure cane sugar...because it tastes better to us.  I only have thirteen four pound bags in stock now, got to buy a few more, it is three forty nine a bag right now, and when it comes to jam making, we use five bags of sugar.  Domino sugar is like four sixty five regular price now, and that sale price is about as cheap as we have seen here the last six months.

If The SHTF....sugar, eggs, and flour can make something you can survive off of...cookies.  Plus, they relieve stress, and with our twenty one cans of coffee, we will survive for at least six months....Might need to get some more booze though, only have about five bottles....that stock has to be maintained, to prep for a comet hitting the earth...might as well be drunk while you wait for it to hit.

We do this to save money, not for prepping for the end of the world.

[rickymouse]

Forgot to say, I buy cream of celery soup in a can to make a treatment for my epilepsy.  I buy and freeze asparagus spears in about half pound vacuum packed packages, then cut it up in little pieces and boil it  for ten minutes, drain most of the water and then add a can of soup and a patty of butter and a little milk and then boil it for like five minutes.  That works great for lowering my seizure risk, even with all the chemistry that boosts brain chemistry in the soup.  Half of the soup in a meal, then next night the other half, and my seizure risk is down from high to low for three or four days.  Way cheaper than any meds, plus it tastes good too.  I could just use asparagus, but I had eaten so much in the past, I got tired of eating so much asparagus.  It is fine once in a while with a meal, but the wife hates asparagus.  It also does not freeze right to cook it without it being chopped small and added to the soup.  fifteen minutes and I am eating the medicine.  Although, it takes about twenty minutes to clean and vacuum pack three or four packages out of a bundle...which I buy when it is cheap to freeze.  two bucks a pound when in season...four bucks a pound out of season.

The car insurance would pay the twenty five hundred bucks for my meds, but I had severe reactions to all of them.  But they will not pay the thirty bucks a month extra it cost to alter food chemistry and buy a few supplements.  Oh well, I would rather spend thirty bucks a month than be dead from the side effects I had to all the classes that the neurologist verified and added to my medical records that were very dangerous for me.

[andy06shake]

I am 53, I was born with a bad heart valve. At 33 they wanted to replace it. I waited too long. They replaced it and my heart could not handle a new valve. The worst part was they sawed my sternum to get my heart out. It still hurts! 

The less salt the better!

My little brother, 45 now, was born with his heart valves the wrong way around.

They operated on him as an infant, that was open heart surgery, so i know what the scar looks like(this was back in 1980), and all went well.

The doctors told my mother the operation should last around 17 years and he was prescribed Digoxin, as I recall.
 
He turned 17 and, sure enough, he had a massive stroke.

We were told to prepare for the worst.

He managed to pull through, but was left with paralysis down the left-hand side and a significant reduction in speech.
 
At 30, his heart began to fail again, horrible to watch, and he ended up on the transplant list.
 
Luckily, the NHS managed to source a compatible organ from some poor soul, and he received a transplant.
 
He’s still doing well 14–15 years on, plodding along with two kids in tow and a pretty normal life aside from the medications and immunosuppressants.

Needs to go down to Manchester every few months for a check-up.

But he's never out of the pub, all the same, always drunk. 

[Quantum12]

My little brother, 45 now, was born with his heart valves the wrong way around.

They operated on him as an infant, that was open heart surgery, so i know what the scar looks like(this was back in 1980), and all went well.

The doctors told my mother the operation should last around 17 years and he was prescribed Digoxin, as I recall.
 
He turned 17 and, sure enough, he had a massive stroke.

We were told to prepare for the worst.

He managed to pull through, but was left with paralysis down the left-hand side and a significant reduction in speech.
 
At 30, his heart began to fail again, horrible to watch, and he ended up on the transplant list.
 
Luckily, the NHS managed to source a compatible organ from some poor soul, and he received a transplant.
 
He’s still doing well 14–15 years on, plodding along with two kids in tow and a pretty normal life aside from the medications and immunosuppressants.

Needs to go down to Manchester every few months for a check-up.

But he's never out of the pub, all the same, always drunk. 

Wow, your brother has had a lot of work. I am happy he is alive. I am sure he is on a low salt diet. 

My heart came from an 18 year old girl who died in a car crash. After the heart was put in they needed to replace a valve with a cow valve. I am very lucky. 

The only med I am on is Metoprolol, its a common heart medication classified as a 
beta blocker. It works by slowing the heart rate and relaxing blood vessels, which helps to improve blood flow and lower blood pressure. I don’t need blood thinners. 

Durning surgery I had a stroke in my eye. My eye blocked the stroke from going to my brain. I can always feel it in my left eye but my vision is perfect.

Did your brother recover from the stroke?

[andy06shake]

Wow, your brother has had a lot of work. I am happy he is alive. I am sure he is on a low salt diet. 

My heart came from an 18 year old girl who died in a car crash. After the heart was put in they needed to replace a valve with a cow valve. I am very lucky. 

The only med I am on is Metoprolol, its a common heart medication classified as a 
beta blocker. It works by slowing the heart rate and relaxing blood vessels, which helps to improve blood flow and lower blood pressure. I don’t need blood thinners. 

Durning surgery I had a stroke in my eye. My eye blocked the stroke from going to my brain. I can always feel it in my left eye but my vision is perfect.

Did your brother recover from the stroke?

Cheers Quantum12.

It depends on what you mean by recover.

The stroke was apparently massive, so he was not expected to survive.

And then we were told he would never walk or talk again.

Proved them all wrong there, although there is paralysis down the one side of his body, and one hand is pretty much useless and claw like.

But like i said, he can walk(with a limp/drag), drive, and talk to a fashion, sometimes he can be rather hard to understand if you don't know the fella.

Leads a pretty normal life, as much as can be expected.

Not sure where his heart came from, they don't generally tell recipients or families where a donated organ came from here in the UK.

Glad you pulled through also. 

[Quantum12]

Cheers Quantum12.

It depends on what you mean by recover.

The stroke was apparently massive, so he was not expected to survive.

And then we were told he would never walk or talk again.

Proved them all wrong there, although there is paralysis down the one side of his body, and one hand is pretty much useless and claw like.

But like i said, he can walk(with a limp/drag), drive, and talk to a fashion, sometimes he can be rather hard to understand if you don't know the fella.

Leads a pretty normal life, as much as can be expected.

Not sure where his heart came from, i don't generally tell recipients or families where a donated organ came from here in the UK.

Glad you pulled through also. 

My friend had a stroke and his left side is dead weight. He struggles every day. He is also on a very low sodium diet. 

In the states they don’t tell the donor info. The family reached out to me. They went through a big process to get in touch with me. I met them and they found comfort knowing their daughter saved my life. It was sad.

[andy06shake]

My friend had a stroke and his left side is dead weight. He struggles every day. He is also on a very low sodium diet. 

In the states they don’t tell the donor info. The family reached out to me. They went through a big process to get in touch with me. I met them and they found comfort knowing their daughter saved my life. It was sad.

I mean, it's one of the most noble, kind, and heart-rending things imaginable.

Here in the UK, adults are presumed to consent to organ donation unless they have registered to opt out.

The lives saved are the ultimate gift, really, we should be so glad that we exist in a time period where such marvels are possible, imho.

I think the system is designed so that if the donor family chooses contact and the NHS, you could discover where the organ came from.

[putnam6]

Forgot to say, I buy cream of celery soup in a can to make a treatment for my epilepsy.  I buy and freeze asparagus spears in about half pound vacuum packed packages, then cut it up in little pieces and boil it  for ten minutes, drain most of the water and then add a can of soup and a patty of butter and a little milk and then boil it for like five minutes.  That works great for lowering my seizure risk, even with all the chemistry that boosts brain chemistry in the soup.  Half of the soup in a meal, then next night the other half, and my seizure risk is down from high to low for three or four days.  Way cheaper than any meds, plus it tastes good too.  I could just use asparagus, but I had eaten so much in the past, I got tired of eating so much asparagus.  It is fine once in a while with a meal, but the wife hates asparagus.  It also does not freeze right to cook it without it being chopped small and added to the soup.  fifteen minutes and I am eating the medicine.  Although, it takes about twenty minutes to clean and vacuum pack three or four packages out of a bundle...which I buy when it is cheap to freeze.  two bucks a pound when in season...four bucks a pound out of season.

The car insurance would pay the twenty five hundred bucks for my meds, but I had severe reactions to all of them.  But they will not pay the thirty bucks a month extra it cost to alter food chemistry and buy a few supplements.  Oh well, I would rather spend thirty bucks a month than be dead from the side effects I had to all the classes that the neurologist verified and added to my medical records that were very dangerous for me.

Yeah my mom cooked Campbell soup recipe meals all the time, still does.

We usually roast or grill our asparagus, don't see any reason it couldn't be grilled and then frozen to use in soups or other recipes later, but we never have any left over

[rickymouse]

Yeah my mom cooked Campbell soup recipe meals all the time, still does.

We usually roast or grill our asparagus, don't see any reason it couldn't be grilled and then frozen to use in soups or other recipes later, but we never have any left over

My daughter roasts or grills her asparagus quite often.  I usually boil it.  It is too easy to overcook it making it tough when grilling or roasting it.  I like it both ways, but I tend to use it mostly added to soup.  Cream of asparagus soup in a can is expensive and I would guess that most of the anti-epileptic properties go away in the processing.  When I make cream of asparagus, it is chuck full of pieces of asparagus.  I bet if I fried the asparagus for like four minutes in a combo of refined coconut oil and butter, it would be great in the soup.  I tend to use asparagus mostly for it's anti-epileptic properties and since the wife hates it, I tend not to broil it.  If I have some and the daughter comes over...so it pays to cook up a batch since her husband also loves it, it is worth going through the extra work.  But leftover roasted or grilled asparagus does not taste that good to me.  Asparagains in asparagus  are calming chemistry.  Potatoes also have asparagain in them, and of course asparagains coupled with starch creat acrylamides at high heat when cooking.  But asparagus is not as much a problem as fried potatoes for causing increased cancer risk, because it is low in starch while the potato is high in it.  Not sure exactly what the reaction does, but I am not afraid of frying thin sliced potatoes in bacon grease.  Potatoes that are stored in the fridge are at more risk of creating acrylamides I guess, because the starch changes. 

If you sautee the thin sliced potatoes and just get them browned lightly, not much chance of increasing cancer risk.  If you burn them...yeah, risk goes up but burnt fried potatoes taste like crap...I usually toss any burnt ones in the garbage.  They also taste great fried in homemade beef tallow or bone grease.  I make both at home and have a good supply.  We aren't getting a half a head of grass fed organic beef this year either, but we are buying a hundred pounds of beef, plus soup bones and marrow bones and also some short ribs....the people we get our half cow from cut their herd down by slaughtering more cows, so less calfs and less to sell now.  But the guy had some health problems, needed shoulder surgery and some autoimmune issues, which are now somewhat better or fixed, so they are trying to get their herd back up again, but it is expensive to buy the calfs if they don't have their own certified cows give them calves.  So it will take a few years.

Two years now without a half head of beef.  Having withdrawals.  Can't afford to buy their T-bone steaks and rib steaks and porterhouse steaks...way more than hamburger, sirloin steaks, and brisket which cost about eight bucks a pound.  When buying the half, hamburger and better costs about seven bucks a pound with slaughtering and cutting and wrapping costs.

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