I bought some Progresso Tomato Basil in a can this morning. Yours definitely sound better. I freeze chili with excellent results.

I have frozen both chicken & beef soups, as well as chili & spaghetti sauce. Put the in containers with an air tight lid. Noodles I cook fresh when ready to eat out of the freezer.

You both have good ideas thank you. Also I love that soup lb, I also get the Campbell's sipping soups to bring to work. Creamy tomato soup is great with tuna salad sandwiches, so I think a creamy tomato based soup with seafood in it will turn out well. I've never tried it before tho.

My mom freezes soup in baggies all the time, Ghostwolf. It saves tons of space in her freezer, but she does buy quality bags for freezing liquids to avoid leaks.

The thing with bags...do you just thaw them in hot water? Seems difficult to get soup out of a bag after freezing...

Hmmm...If I remember, my mom just sets the frozen bag out in the morning to defrost. Then, by dinner time she just pours it into a saucepan to heat up.

Hmmm...If I remember, my mom just sets the frozen bag out in the morning to defrost. Then, by dinner time she just pours it into a saucepan to heat up.

Where does everyone stand in chili being a soup or not? I’m a huge chili fan.

I don’t think of Chili as a soup.

well let me tell you about Panera....their soups come frozen and inside a sealed bag....back of house we have a big water bath that holds soups in upright position and they heat them in the hot water of that bath to the right and proper temp for the soup....
so yes you can heat from frozen inside a zipclosing bag....out of the bath they pick it up with fingers and then have a big pitcher that they put the unopened bag into....then they cut off the end of bag and pour out into the containers that sit over a water bath heater on the line where food is served from.....so that is that right?

I like my cream of potato and corn soup. I all so like my vegetable soup. My son likes my chicken noodle .Left overs go fast with a 15 year old son in the house.

I do think of chili as one of the heartiest and one of the more tried and true. Until a year or so ago I never realized that some make chili without the beans. (To me that is more like a meal than soup (and brings to mind chili dogs or sandwiches stuffed with the tasty meat mix)

I like to make chicken noodle (with or without corn) , beef vegetable, sausage stew, and chili of course. (have done homemade potpie as well)

Just getting used to and exploring with more veggies, I do want to try some squash soups. (any recommendations... butternut first?)

At work they get one in... Cheesy Baked Potato. Is obviously cream based potato with cheese, bacon and chives. Delicious but not exactly healthy. I have only had that once or twice .

Any kind of squash is good, even canned pumpkin. You can add heavy cream and mushrooms, or you can add meat. Also, any kind of curry seasoning goes great with squash soup. Or you can go with French seasoning and do tarragon with pepper and cheeses.

You can definaitely freeze soups in bags they do it at work all the time

I have never mad emy own soup but would love to especially on a cold day. Canned soups just arent the same even though some are good they have too many additives and preservatives.
Luckily I work in a restaursnt that makes home made soupd all the time and I eat plenty of soup there.

My favs are chicken rice, cramy tomato ,creamy potato and italian wedding soup, yum. I used to love ham and bean soup and beef veggie but can't eat beans or beef anymore, what a bummer!!

Oh I forgot to add cream of crab, that's one of my favs but donlt get it all too often, :-(