There are quite a few different soup options at Costco, but these Allen Family Foods Soups are unique in that they’re designed to be easy to eat on the go. The containers are microwavable and easy to open. I know what you’re thinking. That’s great, but will I enjoy eating the soup? Read on to find out!
Other soups from Costco I like are the Kirkland Signature Organic Bone Broth, Rao’s Vegetable Minestrone Soup, Cuisine Adventures French Onion Soup, and the Authentic Asia Hand Wrapped Shrimp Wonton Soup.
Location in Store
This is located in the rice, pasta sauce, pasta and soup aisle at Costco near the other canned soups. The item number for the Tuscan White Bean & Kale soup is 1565349. The item number for the chicken noodle soup is 1212236.
Taste
Tuscan White Bean & Kale
This soup isn’t good and is not something I’d purchase again. I find it has a really odd, sweet flavor. I notice a herb or spice that tastes like black licorice which I don’t think pairs well with the other ingredients and I don’t love.
This soup isn’t very salty and I’m disappointed by the sweetness, I prefer a more savory soup. If you like a hearty soup I will say that this one is really full of beans and feels more like eating a can of beans than a soup in my opinion. The texture of the broth is quite thick too.
I only found a few small pieces of kale in an entire container. I wish there was more since it is a white bean & kale soup. Not just a white bean soup.
Chicken Noodle
I really like this chicken noodle soup and would definitely buy it again. The broth is rich, flavorful, and well seasoned with herbs. There isn’t a lot of chicken, but the pieces are large chunks of white breast meat and seem high quality.
The noodles are good—a bit soft for my liking, but still tasty. They’re shell-shaped. The vegetables—carrots, celery, and onions—are also quite soft.
Overall, this is a very hearty, flavorful soup. I wish there were a bit more chicken, though—I counted five large chunks in my container of soup.
Cost
The Tuscan White Bean & Kale soup costs $14.99 Canadian and there are six 400-milliliter containers in the box, this is a pretty typical price for a soup like this.
The chicken noodle soup costs $17.99 CAD for a pack of six 400-millilitre containers. That works out to about $3.00 per container, which isn’t cheap but also isn’t overly expensive.
Convenience
The best-before date on the soup is 14 months from when I purchased it. The soup comes packaged in a plastic microwaveable container so you can easily bring one to work or school. I love that the packaging is BPA free.
Because the soup is so hearty, it’s a meal in itself, you don’t really need anything else like a sandwich. Crackers in soup are always tasty, though! I think kids would like the chicken noodle soup, but I’m not sure they’d enjoy the white bean and kale one.
Nutrition
Calories
Tuscan White Bean & Kale
There are 160 calories, two and a half grams of fat, 27 grams of carbohydrates, eight grams of fibre, five grams of sugar, eight grams of protein and 510 milligrams of sodium in one cup of the white bean & kale soup.
There’s lots of fiber in the soup but also a lot of sodium! The nutrition facts aren’t for an entire container of soup, only a cup.
Chicken Noodle
There are 100 calories, 1.5 grams of fat, 13 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fibre, 3 grams of sugar, 8 grams of protein, and 730 milligrams of sodium in one cup of soup. That’s a decent amount of protein for not many calories or much fat, but it’s a lot of sodium for just one cup. Keep in mind that a 400-millilitre container isn’t a single serving—the entire container is about 1.6 servings.
Ingredients
Tuscan White Bean & Kale
I love that the ingredients are organic and the soup has olive oil in it instead of palm or canola oil. I have zero complaints about the ingredients and honestly wish I liked the soup more because I’m a fan of simple, healthy ingredients like this.
They could leave out the agave syrup because I think that’s what’s causing the sweet flavor I don’t enjoy.
Chicken Noodle
I love that this soup uses bone broth and has a simple ingredient list. I also appreciate that it includes olive oil and turmeric, which is anti-inflammatory. This soup contains gluten, egg, and wheat, but it’s soy- and dairy-free.
Scoring
Taste: 5/10 for the white bean & kale, 8.5/10 for the chicken noodle.
Cost: 7/10 for both.
Convenience: 10/10 for both.
Nutrition: 8.5/10 for both.
Overall
Walk on by for the Tuscan white bean & kale, Give it a try for the chicken noodle!
Both flavors are nourishing and filling, and I appreciate the ingredient list, but I don’t love the white bean & kale flavor. I do really like the chicken noodle, though!
Have you tried this soup from Costco before? What did you think of it? Drop a comment below!
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Tried the Zuppa Toscana Soup, and I actually liked the flavor although I agree adding hot sauce or something else to your own preference would for sure improve the flavor. The “black licorice” flavor you are tasting is fennel seed which most Italian sausage (whichever this soup is made with), contains. My bigger issue is with the container itself. The plastic seal on the tub is glued on so strong that it was super difficult to peak back to vent as directed. And when I finally did manage to peel back a little bit, the contents gushed over the rim. I cooked for the 2 minutes and some of the soup overflowed and spilled all over the microwave turning plate. And finally, trying to then fully remove the film from the container without scalding myself was impossible. Thank goodness the microwave at work didn’t heat the soup as hot as it should been, because by the time i pried the seal off, it spilled all over my hands and the counter. This disaster of a prep just to eat a microwave soup would be enough to make me not buy it again. I think for the remaining soups in the box, I will cut them open at home and put the contents in my own Tupperware, which totally defeats the purpose of buying this product in the first place.
Chicken Noodle Soup
Well I really wanted to like it. Nope. The quality of the ingredients was excellent although somewhat overcooked. The large chicken chunks were lean and well trimmed (a big deal for me!). But the flavour was somehow just “off” to me. It had a commercial taste, like soup at Tim Hortons. I know I can return the rest of the containers to Costco but I think I’ll donate them to a local food bank.
Tried the Zuppa Toscana. Flavor is OK, but the containers are filled inconsistently with ingredients. Some are just broth with a single potato, a few beans and a couple pea sized meat ball. Others are literally packed with solid beans with no meat balls and little broth. I will not get again unless they and get their consistency right on the packaging. Guaranteed the nutrition info is completely off per unit as well.
My wife bought the Potato Bacon Soup. Issues started immediately. On some tubs, the plastic film would not peel back without ripping, forcing me to use a knife to slice the plastic on the inside of the rim, leaving it partially floating on the soup. Even when the film did peel back correctly, a minute in the microwave would cause it to burp soup onto the carousel, but the soup was still not warm enough to eat. After warming enough, sometimes gripping the tub in order to peel the film completely off would cause it to burp more soup. But more than anything, the flavor… ugghhh. It’s hard to describe what’s off about it because it’s so bland. But it’s revolting, almost nauseating, like maybe the pigs were fed a steady diet of rubber tires and cough syrup and the potatoes were grown in their excrement. The insipid flavor persists even through the tablespoon of hot sauce I have to put in it just to choke it down.
I recently tried the Allen Potato Bacon Soup. I was looking forward to enjoying a Northern Hemisphere comfort food with all its creamy goodness. I got two spoonfuls in and I was done. Weird tasting broth with spices that DO NOT belong in a creamy soup. My husband tried it and he did not like it either and also felt there were ingredients that ruined the traditional flavor. I would not recommend this soup either. As Allen’s has been in business a number of years I expected traditional yumminess. I was very disappointed.
I also tried it and did not like it at all.
I do costco demos in Ontario, I don’t like trying new things and everthing you try helps me out doing demos. A suggestion, could you please review their cinnamon buns with icing? We finally bought a package and unless they are microwaved they are stale!
Thank you! Do you mean the cinnamon danish rolls with icing from the bakery?
Agree, the taste is disgusting. I threw the second portion in the trash.
I actually really love this soup! I buy it often to take for lunch at work. It’s hearty and filling.
See I wanted to love it so I could take it for work! It’s so convenient. It just wasn’t my taste.
I tried the Allen chicken noodle soup, partly because it’s made in Canada and partly because it was on sale. I was unable to peel back the foil, so had to use a knife to cut it and then poured the soup into a bowl to heat. The meat, vegetables and noodles were incredibly mushy and nasty. The third problem is that it was so salty I was unable to eat it and threw it down the drain. I’m not sure if I can return the remainder to Costco for a refund, but I’ll try.
I kinda like this soup. I like their Garden Harvest even better.