Do people REALLY only eat half a carton of fresh soup?

Sorry I realise I had a copy and paste fail in my post of 9:21 and missed out the protien - the soup&bread nutrition should be
Energy 321kcal
Fat 6.6g
Carb 48.0g
Fibre 6.0g
Protien 15.1g

As you say, about 8g of protein is from the soup but that's not sufficient according to the advice I have been given.

@soupyspoon but even 9g isn't very much. I'm getting ongoing "wellbeing and lifestyle" guidance from my GP to help me learn new food expectations and have been instructed to try to ensure that at least 2 of my 3 meals a day should contain at least 20g protien (25g even better if possible) which you'd get from about 100g of meat (obviously non-meat sources are also available but they are usually around 10% protien compared to meat's 25% so you need more)

Actually that Yorkshire Provender also contains around 8g per half a tub of protein

bread also has protein in it and you might have a cheese sandwich with it increasing that more

Your body cannot process more than a certain amount of protein in one go anyway, my health team said to try to keep between 15g - 20g of protein in one meal, with snacks in between, but thats an average, people get a bit OTT about this.

The problem with that is choosing the wrong soup though, I see M+S now do a smoked fish chowder, half a tub is nearly 9g of protien

When I was buying shop bought soups, this is what I looked for, very high protein content

Also if you make your own and use bone broth and have a lot of rice/barley/potatoes in it, its bordering on a stew which is very substantial

Volume-wise 230g is a sensible serving but the problem is that there's so little actual food content in even fresh soups from a supermarket. I've given up on fresh supermarket soups or I expect to supplement them with something else too.

Take Yorkshire Provender Fresh Roast Chicken Soup. 560g tub so a serving is 230g. Along with 2 slices of bread (I have used the facts from Bertinet Bakery Malted Wheat Sourdough Bread) your meal would contain:
Energy 321 kcal
Fat 6.6g
Carbohydrate 48.0g
Fibre 6.0g

And a lot of that nutrition is from the bread! What comes from the soup is tiny. Looking at the ingredients the meat content is literally listed as 2.5%. ie less than 6g in a 230g serving. Probably about a quarter of a mouthful of chicken

Compare that to what you'd get from a supermarket Roast Chicken & salad sandwich on malted bread:

Energy 331kcal
Fat 5.2g
Carbohydrate 43.9g
Fibre 4.8g
Protein 24.8g

You need protien in your meals to feel satisfied and supermarket soups contain tiny amounts.

This is a 230 serving of my home-made chicken and vegetable soup where each serving contains about 60g of chicken - 10 times more than a supermarket soup. I find this totally satisfying for a lunch with a couple of bits of bread:

😂 My mum thinks half a carton is more than sufficient. I beg to differ!

We share a pot too, but always with nice bread and butter and a half actually fills our soup bowls, so it doesn't look miserly. Can't imagine having the whole carton at once. If it was the smaller tin version I would probably have the whole can but less bread with it.

(I'm getting flashbacks to primary school where through the winter, they would randomly give us a bowl of vague soup like vegetable then a main that always seemed to have gone cold on the plate, and no pudding, just a biscuit. I was not a fan and still recall the terrible disappointment of finding it was a soup lunch meaning no custard again)

I also can't imagine having a carton of soup for dinner, seems odd to me. Wouldn't you be hungry again at (or before) bedtime?

Not healthy, what does this mean?

I prefer the Cully & Sully ones and I do find half a pot is not quite enough and a full one too much, but on checking they are 400g.

I have this one, mostly because I wanted something fairly small. It makes about 3 portions.

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🥦 and Stilton is my go to, it's always so good.

I would eat half but I really struggle with portion sizes. I feel full really easily. Its why I only eat half a sandwich at a time, I feel really bloated. Its not "competitive undereating" as MNers would claim but that my stomach really cant take more than that without causing pain.

I have recovered from an ED in recent years and I am sure it is to do with that. I will eat (say) half the soup for lunch and the rest for dinner. Or half a sandwich for lunch then the other half mid afternoon. I am a healthy weight, normalBMI and not at all "teeny tiny", I just cant fit much in so I have to do little and often rather than three normal sized meals a day.

Also I do find liquids fill me quicker than other foods as PP have said.

I don’t think most people would have just soup for a meal so half a carton with a sandwich or a main course would be fine. If I just had soup I would eat more than half as it’s not very filling on its only and often light on calories. I’d probably be hungry soon after even if I the whole carton. The one I had recently was only about 200 calories for the whole carton so it’s not enough.

No way could I eat a whole carton of soup. I would throw up. I guess your stomach stretches when you overeat!

Do you have a recipe book or site you’d recommend? DH has just bought a soup maker and neither of us have a clue. He doesn’t even like soup unless it’s a tin of Oxtail 🤦‍♀️

I’d never finish a whole carton of soup. Or a tin. If I’m really hungry I might finish one of those smaller, individual tins that Heinz do.

This is not because I have a small appetite but because I don’t consider soup to be a meal. I consider it to be something to dip bread into, and a massive chunk of soupy baguette fills you up quite nicely.

I do, genuinely, eat half a carton of soup. Usually with a slice of bread etc but I definitely couldn’t eat a whole pint of soup in one go.

Don’t you get bored.. surely it’s not healthy to live on soup

I eat a whole one and also need something more than bread with it if it's for dinner - eg cream cheese on the bread, or a ham sandwich.

If it was for lunch I could make do with half a carton and some bread, but I would be ravenous again a couple of hours later. Soup is quick to digest, so if you're only eating that and some carby bread, where's the protein to keep you going any longer?

Why would you just have soup for dinner? I have soup for lunch and yes half a carton!

600ml is more than a pint, no one can enjoy a full pint of shop bought soup with nothing else with it surely.

I only really eat it for lunch it's convenient for work, I get the m&s ones with veg and rice etc and have a crusty roll or similar with it and only have half a pot. There's only so much liquid I can eat tbh before I get bored.

DP and I have soup for lunch and we’ll share the carton but have half a baguette each with it.

if I were having it for my dinner I’d go for the full carton.

I do eat half of one but I have it with a roll with cheese usually- also for lunch. If it was my main dinner meal then I would probably eat a whole one as 240-300 calories for a whole tub is not much for that.

Well that's pretty key, isn't it ?

I'd never eat more than half of one of those cartons, but I'd never eat soup without bread. So that probably should have been made clear in your OP.

Also, a bowl of soup, for me, tends to be a lunch thing, when I'm having a fuller meal later in the day.