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  • GF and GMO-Free cream of chicken soup! You'll never use that slop in a can again! | Real Food Girl: Unmodified
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    “Mmm Better” Cream of Chicken Soup

     There is something to be said for making your own cream soups for cooking.  Anyone can open a can of condensed cream of ‘something’ soup.  The canned version is quick and easy, but no one, and I mean no one needs that much sodium, MSG, or HFCS- I’m sorry, but what the heck is high fructose corn syrup doing in soup?  I mean c’mon!  I’ve probably made close to 2 dozen different kinds of soups in my lifetime and not one ever called for sugar, corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup. Not one. Ever. So what the heck is it doing in canned soups?  The other ingredients found in these “Mmm Mmm”…

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    Kristine Cocchiarella

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     I first published this post back in March of 2013.  I’ve since made this recipe 3 times (I make large batches and freeze it) in hopes of getting much better photos, or at least photos that make the soup look appetizing and no matter how I tried, the photos still didn’t do the soup justice.  It’s not pretty soup. It’s prettier than the condensed cream of crud soups from the grocery store, but it doesn’t photograph well at all. So, I did what any decent blogger would do.  I called a good friend in New Zealand who has oodles more photography experience than I do and bribed her to make this recipe and…

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