crock pots and canned soup?

If I'm not mistaken, Campbells makes a cream soup that has low sodium. Whenever my parents come over for dinner, and I make a dish using a cream soup, I HAVE to get the low sodium ones just because they both have high blood pressure. I am pretty sure it's campbells..

Because it is faster and easier than putting together the ingrediants to make your own sauce. If you know the basics of cooking, just leave out the canned soup and add the ingrediants you need to make a low salt version. Due to my allergies, I modify recipes all the time. Be creative and experiment; create your own recipe using their recipe as a base to start from.

It's to keep things moist - keep them from drying out. Maybe make up your own soup if you are concerned about the salt.

You are right Margie, many of the great crock pot recipes use the canned soups. I do use these recipes and wince when I add the soup. I have high blood pressure so I should be watching my sodium! I try to drink extra water to flush out the water that the sodium will have me retaining when I cook with canned soup! I wish I had the cooking skills to make my own 'soups' for these purposes.

Replace the canned soup with salt-free broth cubes dissolved in an equal amount of liquid.

This annoys me as well. The good thing about using canned soup is that it can form the basis of a quick sauce. I used a can of Campbells condensed chicken soup tonight while making chicken and mushrooms with pasts, but it was quite salty, and so I was acreful not to put any salt in the pasta whilst cooking it. There are reduced salt soups around; perhaps keep an eye open for some of that?

Villageanne has a recipe for creamed soups that is less in salt. Ask her to send you the recipe if you can't find it listed. I know that a lot of recipes I have for the crockpot have a cream soup base. Or, they have a tomato sauce.

Covenience is the reason. Villageanne has some recipes for our own soups to replace the canned versions. That might be worth checking out. Myself I don't do alot with canned soups in the crockpot. I use water and then herbs at the end. I have that recipe for canned soup replacement with way less salt if you want it. Just let me know.