As with everything else, you need to be a wary shopper. What does the label say, even if it's organic?

One advantage of homemade broth is freshness, of course, and your complete control of what's in it. I, for example, always adulterate mine with things like onion, carrots, celery and other favorites.

It's really not the same since store bought broth has other additives and definitely doesn't have much gelatin. What part of making your own is causing you difficulty? I find it pretty easy to make--once you start it you don't really have to do anything until it's time to strain it 24 hours later--and I store it in stackable containers in the freezer so it doesn't take up all that much space.

One usually has MSG and one does not.

The difference between store bought soup and home-made is this: (This is directed at anyone, as I myself was once blind)

The truth to keep in mind – with EVERY FOOD DECISION WE MAKE – is that Food Industry has become solely an industry for PROFIT – exploiting our human sensory attributes as a means to acquire wealth: People in the millions driven by senses X food-products X breakfast X brunch X lunch X dinner X dessert X snacks X snacks X snacks X midnight-snacks X movie-snacks = $$$ABUNDANCE$$$. Times this by our desire to ease our labor – which is intensified by the need to survive by food (and by our proclivity to indulgences)…and we’ve transferred our power – and our health/lives AND intelligence– over to the Food Industry makers. This all began before our times in the Forties, when convenience foods began mostly. So our generations have not learned where our bodies’ nutrition factually comes from – where our cells actually gain their life-force from to survive and multiply (and this info is missing from our education – even from Medical education – yes! Bet you did not know that…our doctors are NOT taught nutrition). Of course…we don’t till the soil, we don’t plant, we don’t harvest, we don’t feed animals, we don’t milk cows, we don’t peel pods…I guess we never thought that a time would come that we would have to explain to generations of humans that their survival totally depends on Earth’s vegetation, that most foods on a supermarket shelf does not come from anything living on a farm, and that a fruit roll-up is far from coming from a real whole fruit….and even that most or all active bacteria found in yogurt died before shipping to all Shop-Rites, and that too much unfermented soy (a non-western food) disrupts our endocrine system. Our bodies, through increasing diseases, are SCREAMING to be re-educated about all this.

To this add that our FDA lies to us and withholds information about the contents listed on all food labels, that they have their own dictionary – no, encyclopedia – where our standard English words have been re-defined for their and the Food Industry’s purposes (profit): natural is no longer natural, organic is sometimes organic but sometimes partially organic, toxic ingredients change their names when they become popular or known by a wide audience. That they have also re-defined what is classified as food (Earth’s food – the ones that has kept us alive and evolving for millennia as well as for millennia without invented pharmaceuticals to “rescue” us from nature) because now ,food is all that which can be injected with harmful bacteria, injected with genetic DNA from insects and toxic bacteria (GMOs =Genetically Modified Organisms…soy, corn, cotton, canola oil, papaya, rice…250,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide to date because of GMO crop failure… recent science indicating intestinal disruption due to GMOs), food whose atoms can be corrupted, whose electrons may be modified, radiated with gamma rays, pulled apart, broken from, burned from, smashed from, extracted from, created from waste products, made from toxins, made from poisons – what was once a living whole food complex: Vegetation – architecture designed specifically for our bodily cells’ consumption. The evidence to nature’s innate INTELLIGENCE is that even WE don’t know its full knowledge...that without vegetation – our cells simply DIE. We even gave it a name: starvation. Sooo…

WHY are medical scientists looking for disease solely in viruses and bacteria?? ….when the food designed by nature’s intelligence to feed our cells – to CREATE OUR CELLS, OUR FLESH – have been converted into monstrosities by our food industry, scientists, and trusted FDA?? Don’t believe this? Research it. Let’s use our own intelligence before we are all left to resort to pharmaceuticals for Alzheimer’s or dementia.

Those we have trusted with food we were once personally stewards of, are failing us. We need to take back our birth right – if no one is educating us, we need to educate ourselves and each other and take back our power AND responsibility to OURSELVES. We were MEANT to get on our hands and knees and toil the soil. We need to re-acquaint ourselves with our needs….with what is responsible for our physical survival. Really….does it sound rational not to know which foods we hold in our mouths and we chew and swallow and run through our veins and brains… to keep us alive AND healthy? Ha ha…. we wash our hands with anti-bacterials… but then place onto our tongues food modified with DNA from a toxic bacteria (GMO) – savoring every moment of it? Helloo? How much more unconscious can they turn us into?

Anyway, don’t just read labels…learn about the new/old food label language and how our own US Department of Agriculture and food industries grows , changes, and prepares foods we take into our bellies.

Much info to learn: A must watch: http://www.seedsofdeception.com/Public/Home/index.cfm http://truefoodnow.org/campaigns/ MUST HAVE: http://truefoodnow.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/cfs-shoppers-guide.pdf A lot of archived information and many free ebooks here: http://naturalnews.com

Salud!

If it's time you don't have to make it, if you haven't already - use a slow cooker instead of a stove. That way you can start it before bed or before work etc. and its done with little effort, and you don't have to monitor it.

Beware the "Natural Flavor" ingredient for one thing, it can hide lots of things, such as MSG, some of it could be from wheat.

Even if it says organic, it may contain some non-organic ingredients, some of those may be GMOs.

Whenever you take a shortcut by buying pre-packaged anything, you can bet that the manufacturer of that product (because that's what it is), has taken far more shortcuts that you, yourself would not have. They have to create things that are shelf-stable for a very long time (preservatives), look good (coloring), and taste good (MSG or other added flavors), and do so at the lowest possible cost, so as to keep their profit margins high.

Somethings like MSG and sugar - in any form, are there because they're also addictive.

Do you really want to eat that way? I'd rather do without the broth if I didn't have the time to make it.

Well, don't broths have beneficial enzymes in them that would be killed in the aseptic packaging process or the canning? I could be really off on this one.

Biggest difference to me is that my homemade chicken stock tastes better than store-bought.