Dry onion soup mix can be costly when buying in the box at the store. For my French dip sandwiches I use both packets in the box. That makes for an expensive dinner. Making you own mix is pretty inexpensive especially if you have a store that you can buy spices in bulk.
I have found I don’t like a lot of the recipes out there for dry onion soup mix for two reasons. First, many call for beef bullion. Why would I put beef bullion in onion soup mix? The store version doesn’t have it. But what the store version and beef bullion have in common is MSG. Well I don’t want that in my mix anyway. And secondly, the homemade version has a lot more dried onions in it than the store version. So I’ve altered the recipe a little – less dried onion flakes and more onion powder because I still want the onion flavor.
Dry Onion Soup Mix

Ingredients
- 1/2 cup dried onion flakes
- 1 Tbsp parsley flakes
- 1 Tbsp onion powder
- 1 tsp celery salt
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp ground pepper
- 2 tsp turmeric, optional
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a pint canning jar or container with lid. Place lid on jar and shake to mix. 1 Tbsp equals one 1 oz. packet.
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Buying in bulk will do two things for you. 1.) you don’t have to pay for the container and 2.) if you need just a small amount of a spice that you don’t regularly use, you can only buy what you need and not waste an entire container. One more tip I can give you on this is to take a marker with you to the store when you know you’ll be buying bulk spice. Tie the bag with a knot instead of the twist tie they provide and write the number on the bag. Then you won’t pay for the weight of the twist tie.
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Katherines Corner
Monday 20th of January 2014
perfect! Hopping over from the Frugal crafty hop.♥
Kerry C
Monday 20th of January 2014
Thanks for stopping by.
Katy @ Purposely Frugal
Sunday 19th of January 2014
Think I'm gonna try this!!!
Kerry C
Monday 20th of January 2014
I hope you liked it. I love always having some on hand.