Taste Test Tuesday - Instant Soup Cups: Tomato Basil Pasta

I've done my fair share of lunch duty at elementary and middle schools. I happen to know that kids today come to school with those instant soup or noodle cups where they add hot water from the cafeteria and suddenly a hot dish is being served.

So, when I saw that the Eating Right line now includes a couple of instant soup options (they come in a non-styrofoam cup by the way), I had to check it out - with hot soup loving students in mind, of course.

I tried the tomato basil pasta soup flavor and it was not bad at all (for an instant soup). It had good flavor and a few grams of fiber and 7 grams of protein (so it would probably satisfy pretty well).

The sodium, though, is typical of an instant soup: 480 milligrams.

The ingredient list is pretty straightforward:

pasta
vegetables (tomato, garlic)
natural flavors (maltodextrin, yeast extract, natural flavors)
basil
parsley
salt
xanthan gum
and spices

Per cup it contains 150 calories, 7 g protein, 30 g carbohydrate, 1 g fat, 0 g saturated fat, 0 g trans fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 3 g fiber, 480 mg sodium.

It's just another option to help break up the winter lunchbox monotony. Come December, most of us moms (and kids) might be looking for some new lunchtime options.

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