Canned tomatoes are almost always just as good as fresh in almost every case where you’re simmering something. You can find D.O.P. San Marzanos in a lot of places for only a couples more. 🤌
A 28 oz can of crushed tomatoes can be between $1.52 and $2.82 depending on the brand. Plus 12 oz of turkey stock I made from a free turkey a long time ago. Butter and onion. Overall you are looking at between $2.40 to $3.70 for 40+ oz
Campbell’s soup is 10.75 oz for $1. It would take two cans. Add the recommended amount of water to dilute and and you need 2 cans to get up to the same amount of soup.
So $2 for crap soup or $3.00 ± 0.70¢ for premium. It’s all relatively in the same price zone but with dramatically better results if you spend the extra. And I always have crushed tomatoes and the rest in hand because I use them in a lot of things. Vs condensed soup is saved just to be used as condensed soup when my wife is sick and wants exactly that and nothing else.
And by using stock pantry items I insure pantry rotation and use very few brain cells to create the shopping list. I use the same cans of crushed tomatoes to make pasta sauce or shakshuka.
Are the cans of crushed tomatoes cheaper than cans of soup?
Canned tomatoes are almost always just as good as fresh in almost every case where you’re simmering something. You can find D.O.P. San Marzanos in a lot of places for only a couples more. 🤌
A 28 oz can of crushed tomatoes can be between $1.52 and $2.82 depending on the brand. Plus 12 oz of turkey stock I made from a free turkey a long time ago. Butter and onion. Overall you are looking at between $2.40 to $3.70 for 40+ oz
Campbell’s soup is 10.75 oz for $1. It would take two cans. Add the recommended amount of water to dilute and and you need 2 cans to get up to the same amount of soup.
So $2 for crap soup or $3.00 ± 0.70¢ for premium. It’s all relatively in the same price zone but with dramatically better results if you spend the extra. And I always have crushed tomatoes and the rest in hand because I use them in a lot of things. Vs condensed soup is saved just to be used as condensed soup when my wife is sick and wants exactly that and nothing else.
And by using stock pantry items I insure pantry rotation and use very few brain cells to create the shopping list. I use the same cans of crushed tomatoes to make pasta sauce or shakshuka.