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My mother is in a herbs and spices MLM thing. She dumps a heap of their flavor mixes, eg, a fancy curry powder, in the water, and cooks it. It turns out ok. I've done what you're suggesting with the canned soups with rice (pro tip: any canned soup or pasta sauce can be a risotto). I found you need to dilute them (to what degree varies depending on the type of soup, tomato would need to be diluted heavily if you don't want a mouthful of overly processed tomato paste), and depending on what's in the soup (gums, starches, etc) you'll probably have a sort of gravy which might or might not be what you're after, though it should be able to be rinsed off mostly. You'll be stuck with any chunky stuff in it though.