Is my husband right to be embarrassed when I serve soup for lunch to guests

I am also from a Mediterranean culture and I don’t think it’s socially acceptable to serve only soup to your guests, however hearty it is, and even for lunch. I agree with your husband. I love cooking soups myself and in my cuisine there are dozens of very healthy and nutritious soups, but I would find it not filling even for a family lunch. Soup is a starter and never the main dish in any given cuisine. Just think of any resto menu.

Sounds delicious for lunch to be honest and well done for making your own from scratch. Next time though tell your DH he is in charge of the food and let him get on with it the rude so and so.

It really depends on the relation you have to the guests. If these are friends, then sharing soup and wonderful bread, fresh butter, etc is wonderful (as long as soup is not the only thing you ever serve?). Maybe add some more tapa-style dishes? And as he is from a Mediterranean culture, food and friends sharing should be his style?
Of course, if it’s colleagues or bosses or business, then a lovely soup for starters and something more impressive for a main would be more suitable.
My DH makes wonderful soups that are full meals. He does an asparagus one with crispy chorizo, grilled asparagus, eggs hollandaise, etc etc which is an impressive dish. Your husband should appreciate your efforts, I am assuming now though that you do not only ever serve soup ever.

Ex-MIL always had soup for lunch. It doesn't feel like a 'meal' to me, only part of one! I actually feel the same way about Asian soups that are meant as a whole meal, and the massively chunky soups I make myself. I never went to MIL's without a generous supply of snacks in my handbag 😂

I'm one of those who feel that guests should be over-catered. I enjoy knowing everyone can have as much as they want without feeling they're stretching my hospitality.

For lunch with a nice bread and butter yum. For dinner as a starter. Your husband sounds a right snob.

I would serve it for lunch with a sandwich followed by a dessert, yes! I guess it depends what your friends serve in comparison.

Exactly.

It's bizarre how people can make such definitive statements about how soup can only be lunch but not dinner or is not suitable for guests when they have no information about what the soup is like or how much there is of it.

There's a whole load of soups [[https://www.taste.com.au/galleries/20-soups-filling-enough-meal/iade1fcw?page=15 that are a meal in itself, especially if served with nice bread, or another accompaniment like dumplings etc. Plus the OP is also serving pudding, then it's not like anyone is going to be short of food is it?

For lunch with some lovely sourdough bread

I didn’t say it was like a roast, I said it’s as filling as a roast
and like stated it depends what goes in it!

I have no issue with other people’s preferences, but that has nothing to do with my point that soup is not like a roast.

I love nice soup and good bread for lunch. At dinner, I wouldn't serve soup as a starter.

Sounds delicious 😍

My mums and dads soup is literally a roast blended… potatoes, loads of veg, meat and stuffing…. It’s lush…. No idea how someone can say it’s NOTHING like a
roast when it literally is a roast 😂
Id challenge anyone to fit in a pudding after

Soup & tiger bread anyday over a roast for me!

Ok for lunch if a hearty soup, perhaps with some sandwiches or as another alternative ? Or followed with cakes etc
Definitely not suitable for evening meal though. Hopefully your husband will be helping too.

A really good soup , is a treat , takes ages if you start with your own stock
I love soup ok for dinner if it’s a good one
serve with a parsley lemon garlic pesto type thing to dress it up
maybe a good salad and cheese course would be nice

I love soup, your husband sounds like a dick!

@Michelle1964 literally reads…..

‘i like making soups from scratch (E.g vegetable, lentil, minestrone) and try to make them tasty, nutritious and filling. For some visitors I make soups for lunch or dinner, for the same reasons above’

I would serve soup and bread as a meal, but probably add some salad, dips and cheese afterwards, followed by a chocolate and coffee. That said, my soup tends to be very substantial and ribsticking.

Oh come on! … it kinda depends what’s in it!!

Oh come on, soup is nothing, NOTHING like a roast!

For an informal lunch, I'd be really happy with a homemade soup and nice bread. It's not something I'd usually eat for dinner, but would if the accompaniments were substantial enough. Ultimately though, your husband has a nerve complaining about what you make and offer. Why doesn't he just cook, rather than complaining?

I absolutely love it when we go round my parents and they serve home cooked soup and tiger bread!! It’s usually veg potatoes and meat so filling wise no different to a roast!! Can’t see the fuss

Homemade soup with lovely bread is wonderful
Glad you've accepted now OP that it's a weekday lunch or Saturday but not a Sunday lunch or evening meal when it should be a more substantial meal . If think lovely starters but what's the rest of my dinner if you served that up for an evening meal for guests. As a family we'd eat it but only if we'd had eg a full cooked English breakfast or substantial lunch that day

I bet your homemade soups are lush tho 🥰

Oh, whoops…

For some visitors I make soups for lunch or dinner

From OP. Top of the page, right there, in easily readable words.