Sick wife wanted comfort food. Making it from scratch takes longer but is so much less expensive than glop from a can. Potatoes, onion, butter, salt, pepper.
Cost per person, 70¢ not including the pepper sauce. A standard can of condensed is almost three times the cost.
Oh no dont pour it off, include it in the soup. Didnt realise the water was only for cooking the potatoes, but you can replace some of the milk with stock and cream.