8 Chicken Broths to AVOID and 3 That Are Actually Worth the Money

📕 Get the full cookbook - The Lunch Lady's $3,600-a-Year Grocery Cut (175 recipes & tricks, scaled for 1, 2 or a family): www.dorislunchlady.com/ Before that carton of chicken broth goes into your soup tonight, turn it around and read the side, where the small numbers are. That carton is mostly water and salt. I bought broth by the case for a school kitchen with four hundred children on the line, so I set eleven bowls of store broth in my own refrigerator overnight and read every label. Here is what I found. Eight I would leave on the shelf: the microwave sipping cup, the red and white condensed can, the little store brand can, the carton that says less sodium, the fancy organic carton, the carton covered in promises, the name brand everybody's mother trusted, and the plain store carton most of us buy every week. Three worth your money: the low sodium carton for tired nights, a jar of paste soup base that makes a cup for under twenty cents, and the one bone broth that set firm in my refrigerator, the one I keep for the day somebody in the house is sick. Plus three looks that take about a minute in the aisle: the word on the front, the protein on the side, and the price per ounce on the shelf tag. I am Mrs. Doris. A school kitchen in Scioto County, Ohio, on a dollar and five cents a tray. Prices are around what I saw on store shelves and websites in October 2026 and change by store and by season, so check the shelf tag where you shop. Sodium and protein are from the labels and can change when a company changes a recipe. Once a carton is open, keep it in the refrigerator and use it within about five days. This video is about getting your money's worth, not medical advice. My book, The Lunch Lady's $3,600-a-Year Grocery Cut, is at dorislunchlady.com When you were small and sick in bed, what did somebody bring you in a cup? Tell me below. #chickenbroth #bonebroth #groceryhacks #over60 #mrsdoris