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

Unless it is a celebratory meal lunch in our house is always just soup, salad or a sandwich. We eat our main meal in the evening.

If I invited a group of friends for a big lunch I would do a bigger meal, but if we had guests arriving in time for lunch for an overnight stay then it would more than likely be something like soup because I would be pushing the boat out for the evening meal.

Not the poster you’re quoting, but I wouldn’t describe a Tuscan bean soup as ‘very filling’. I’m not a manual labourer but I am an adult at a healthy weight. Found an example of a recipe online and per serving its 240 kcal, which is a light meal. As I said in an earlier post, soup is one of those meals where the taste and textures get dull after a while so it gets boring to just keep eating more and more if it.

It’s fine as a midweek lunch (I have soup planned for lunch this week). It’s ok for lunch guests, though I would serve something more substantial and special seeming (I liked the serving cornflakes for brunch analogy above). For a main meal it just straight up wouldn’t be enough and I’d be hungry and disappointed- and maybe accidentally a bit pissed if I were drinking wine with such a light meal.

Good - you can sit next to me. I love a fellow pedant even though we may not agree regarding soups! 😁

(I love soup, me)

My mum makes fabulous veggie soup and freezes it. Nothing better than a bowl or two warmed up for lunch with warm bread. Or dinner with a toasted cheese sandwich and some fruit.

So, a Tuscan bean and pasta soup isn't very filling for you? Are you a manual labourer?

Maybe just have honest conversations with your guests?
I'd much prefer soup (with no bread, or only small bread portion ideally) over many alternatives. Just see what people say they like.

No, never.
Soup is a fine lunch IMO.

Does anyone really have three cooked meals a day?

Lunch is fine but not for dinner.

I am entertained by the disconnect between 'soup is too quick, cheap, easy, nutritious to count as a meal' but also 'we're all so busy and broke that we have to gorge ourselves to obesity on ultra-processed foods' 🤣

Our food culture is absolutely fucked.

Yep

Are you always so breathtakingly pedantic and snarky?

Depends on how good the dunking bread is and as long as it’s not Sunday.

:)

I don't think anyone suggested 3 full cooked meals.
Snackette-JFC!🙄

A bowl of whizzed up veg/lentils is fine but hardly making any effort or substantial.
Like brunch with cornflakes and toast rather than eggs benedict.
Op is sort of implying that her " from scratch" soup is an amazing culinary feat rather than umm a bowl of soup.

@toastofthetown absolutely nails it with this IMO:

There’s also the fact that a bowl of soup is largely the same flavours and textures throughout, so even if you increase the serving size, people are likely to get bored with the dish before they are truly satisfied so eat just enough to take the edge off their hunger.

@MusicLass

Soup is absolutely fine for lunch! As a few posters have said, if he is THAT bothered, he can get off his lazy arse and do something bigger/more substantial HIMSELF.

It never ceases to amaze me how many men moan and complain about things, but are not prepared to do a single thing to change anything. All mouth and no trousers as my grandmother used to say. Always gobbing off and moaning about things, but doing fuck-all about it.

Me and DH only ever have small things for breakfast AND lunch. And then a 'proper' meal for dinner, and a small snackette for supper. People only need one full/bigger meal a day. The '3 cooked meals a day' thing is a fallacy. No-one needs that.

It's also a great lunch.

I have. I make good ones myself, with lots of lentils etc. I can’t stand lumpy soup though - only ones blitzed smooth.
I can only eat a smallish bowl before I get bored with it so I’m not full. I don’t want more soup to fill me up, I want something else.

Soup is a great starter.

@Nottodayicant Or rather... what soups have you been DRINKING?

Who wants to DRINK their lunch? What soups have YOU been eating?

Absolutely agog at folks posting pictures of soup. One of the most ubiquitous meals around. Like folks don’t know the different types of soup. It’s bonkers 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

irs also not just about how filling it is. Christ you can fill folks up with egg and oven chips.

personally I think a lovely home made soup and some nice bread is a fine lunch. Although I’d not just do that. I’d add meats or cheeses.

id never invite people to my house to dinner and give them just soup and bread. No matter how many pictures of soup folks post. Or how filling ir was.

@LuckySantangelo35 not sure why you're picking on me when plenty of other in the thread have similar opinions.

If I was out for lunch I would only pick soup and bread if I was not feeling particularly hungry.

I'd probably pick a pasta dish or maybe eggs Benedict.

Personly I would find it awful.
@notacooldad

lol why?
Because i dont like a bowl of wet food
I've never liked soup from being a child.

@Rainbowshit

what would you deem to be a satisfying lunch?