There is nothing I love more on winter days than a hot bowl of soup.
Soup is my go-to meal a lot of nights when I come in from work. Maybe my affinity for it is a holdover from my childhood years when a steaming bowl of Campbell’s chicken noodle was a staple on snow days.
Maybe it’s because when I was a single mom, a bowl of soup, glass of milk and a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato on it was a fast, inexpensive meal we all liked that I considered a healthy dinner. (It had tomatoes on it … that’s veggies, right?)
As I’ve gotten older, and it seems like my feet stay cold from the first day of winter until Memorial Day, soup is my preferred way to take the chill off. Only now, since writing this column, I’ve become a lot more conscious about what’s in the can.
My new favorite is Campbell’s Select Harvest light Maryland-style crab. Each can has two servings; and when that’s my whole dinner, I eat both. That sounds like a lot, but between both servings there actually are only 160 calories and 1 fat gram.