Not Tasteful, Not Simple, Just Stupid

I am looking at a box of Tastefully Simple Creamy Wild Rice Soup Mix - " the food you love, the time you deserve." Directions call for 60 to 90 minutes of cooking. Thirty seven ingredients are listed on the box. That is not simple or time saving.

I think that Tastefully Simple is a home party food company, perhaps a form of multi level marketing. You invite guests to a host's home and cook from an attractive box, and get people to join and buy their food products, and in turn sponsor a food party and get someone to join, who sponsors a food party and gets people to join and so on.

What I have learned about cooking from a box is that there is usually a lot of salt and fat in the ingredients, and some poison, but it is usually faster than this wild rice soup mix from Tastefully Simple. Why anyone would buy this product is beyond me.

I am cooking it now. It is sticking to the bottom of the pan, even tho' I have it set on very low. I count somewhat fewer than 37 grains of wild rice in total. What is this product. Gawd I hate cooking out of a box.

Cream of wild rice soup ( always with chicken) is way over done, anyway. Every where you go, especially up north. What about a hearty broth loaded w/ root vegetables and others and plenty of garlic, and lentils or beans( any kind) and chicken if you really want it ( or any wild bird - pheasant, grouse, duck) and of course the substantial and nutty wild rice. It wouldn't be an artery clogger either.