Comment on Almost a quarter of soup on sale in UK supermarkets has too much salt, study finds

• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes. You know what they are though? Fast. That’s kinda the point. I can throw one of these in during a meeting and just leave it in the microwave, then consume the slop, the whole thing taking maybe 15 mins at most, with the vast majority of that time me still being free to do something else while it’s cooking.

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  • NKBTN@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sure, but you could instead make a giant pan of e.g. spag bol one evening, put in individual tupperware tubs and freeze them. Then bring into work as an when. Saves umpteen trips to the shops.

    I don’t mean to deride them in every circumstance - I probably buy them 3 or 4 times a year when I haven’t been able to shop/cook for some reason. But if they weren’t available, that would probably be better for consumers and the environment. A tin of soup is much easier to recycle

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    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I hate cooking, and especially batch cooking so I can eat cold soulless slop chicken later to keep myself alive for 0.83 years longer and I hate meal planning and how much time and mental energy it takes, absolutely none is acceptable to me.

      It kills my soul little by little and honestly I’m sure it’s fine for some people, but I’m not doing that, the money saved is minimal because food costs next to nothing compared to housing etc. I could order takeaway everyday and it wouldn’t substantially put me further away from house ownership than I am now.

      I WFH and I love the fact I can toss the little fuckers into the microwave and not worry about it and consume ze slop and get back to what I was doing quickly without much disruption.

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