My New Favorite Canned Soup

I used to love Jaunita's Menudo, but of course I don't eat Specified Risk Materials anymore.

For a while, I satisfied myself with Juanita's Pork Pozole and Chicken Pozole. Those are pretty good soups -- after eating those Mexican-style soups for some time, I really found regular supermarket soups (Progresso, Wolfgang Puck, etc.) rather dislikeable. I got used to the simpler, cleaner taste of the Mexican style soups.

But then I happened to visit a large Mexican supermarket, and I bought some of Juanita's soups I'd never seen before. The one I really like is Caldo de Pollo. It's a chicken soup with lots of vegetables. I like it much better than the pozole, because the pozole is full of hominy. I'm on a low-carb diet, so I'd scoop out most of the hominy and throw it away, which seemed like such a waste. But the Caldo de Pollo is much better than merely a hominy-free chicken soup. It's really got a great broth -- the best canned chicken broth I've ever tasted. And there's something different about the chunks of chicken -- they taste so much better than the similar chunks in the pozole. I still had several cans of the pozole when I discovered the Caldo de Pollo, and I had a hard time finishing them off. No more pozole for me!

I've been thinking about laying in a supply of canned soup in the event of a bird flu pandemic, and this would be something I could eat every day for several years!