The chicken and rice soup a kid will actually finish, with wild rice and a whisper of curry keeping it interesting for everyone else.

Calrose white rice and long dark wild rice go in together, so the pot cooks up creamy in places and chewy in others instead of turning to porridge. The chicken base is built on Real Salt and real dried chicken rather than powder and salt, and the seasoning packet leans on chives, marjoram, basil and a small measure of curry that you notice as warmth rather than as curry. It is mild on purpose. This is the one the maker points parents at, and it is the one that reheats best on day two. Ten servings out of one 8 oz bag means a pot of soup, not a bowl, and it takes an hour of mostly unattended simmering to get there. Dress it up with summer squash or garlic butter chicken if you want a heavier supper.

One 8 oz bag makes 10 servings. The package front reads Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Sugar Free, California Rice. Hand packed in small batches in Thorp, Washington, where the Rill family has been cooking soup since 1985.