Erin Beef & Vegetable Soup - 68g

Packet soup holds a quiet but permanent place in the British and Irish kitchen. It is the emergency lunch, the cold-afternoon fix, the thing you reach for when the fridge has given up. Erin has been sitting on that shelf for years, and in a lot of houses it never moved.

Search for it from Canada and you are not after any beef soup. You are after this one: the packet you recognise, the taste in the mug that sends you straight back to a kitchen table a long way from here.

It comes as a light, flat 68g sachet that keeps happily in the cupboard until the weather turns. Make it up in a pan and drink it from a mug, have it with bread, or tip a packet into a stew to give it a bit more body. It travels well too, which is handy if you are posting one to someone.

Most people buy a few at once, because one packet in the cupboard is never enough. Have a look along our soup and broth shelf for more from Erin and other cupboard staples from home.