What can I have alongside soup to make it more filling?

[Witchofzog]

I don't eat much bread or carbs in general. Does anyone have any ideas please?

What do you put in your soup?

Add a handful of red lentils, rice or dried peas etc when you make it. Keep the soup chunky rather than blend it.

I like to dip salt and vinegar crisps into broth.

Sprinkle some grated cheese on top.

Oatcakes.

A cheese sandwich/toastie to dip

I used to live with a girl who always had a baked potato sat right in the middle of her bowl of soup, it worked for her

Or, if you're in Ireland and it's a big bowl of vegetable broth, you plonk a potato in the middle. My elderly relatives love a potato with their soup.

It is a lentil n veg soup so I am hoping it will be quite filling anyway. But I am a greedy pig at the same time. Am loving the crisp n cheese idea together 😋

Dumplings.
Even in creamy soup 😍

Ooh and the potato idea. I have just remembered I used to do this when I was 18 and skint. Dinner would be a baked spud with tinned soup over the top. How did I forget this?

I know you don't eat a lot of bread or carbs, but a toasted pitta bread or sweet chilli wrap, sliced into strips and dipped in soup, is delicious.

Dumplings 😋😋 I love mumsnet!

I put noodles in my soup if I'm extra hungry.

I love crisps in soup. I'm so hungry right now even though I've not long eaten. This cold weather makes me eat eat eat

I have been beaten to it, I was going to say dumplings. And cheese toastie go particularly well with tomato soup.

A handful of sweet corn goes well in most soups too.

I love homemade lentil and carrot soup with a handful of crumbly ham dolloped in!

I put half a tin of chickpeas or butter beans in mine

I often make sweet potato soup and stick a small tin of red kidney beans in it.

Protein is filling, so pulses

I put some slices of Brie in mine! Goes all melty and delicious.

I had leftover roast chicken shredded in my soup for lunch, it was really filling and tasty.

Riveta with cream cheese on top dunked in soup is nice

Loving the potato and shredded chicken or ham ideas! sound really filling and tasty.

So disaster. No spuds. But I had it with grated cheese n ready salted crinkle cut crisps and it was bloody lovely

If you will have dumplings you may as well have a roll instead!

Eat more lean protein (ham, chicken) as it makes you feel full longer and no carbs.

Make your own chunky veg soup, enough for a few days, add cooked chicken a few minutes before serving so thoroughly reheated.