Some time ago I ran out of chicken-flavored bouillon cubes and the store had none. However, they had 7.9 ounce jars of same. Well, I'd never tried the jars before but why not? As it turned out, I preferred the jar to the cubes. Well, next I was out of beef bouillon cubes and ran into the same problem. Same solution too. I bought the 7.9 ounce jar. It's excellent. Just yesterday I made a beef-flavored soup/stew and used the bouillon as a flavoring agent. Everything turned out perfect. This stuff has a real high sodium content, so I eliminated salt as an ingredient. The result was excellent!