Pat: I don't see why you couldn't use them in place of soup mixes. Have you thought about using them for salad dressing?
I have about 20 recipes for dip pouches on the boxes of my different dip packages.Someof them are dip recipes, but there are also crock pot lasagnas, crock pot chicken, cheesy garlic chicken, oven roasted vegetables, pork chops, chicken nuggets, crock pot chicken stew, "15-minute" beef stew, pulled pork sandwiches, chicken au jus, beef and broccoli. Let me know if any of those sound interesting and I'll post them. I've only tried the oven-roasted vegetables, but I remember liking them.