If you're having a can of soup...

[SoupDragon]

... do you have a whole can or just half?

I've just noticed that a serving is half a can - Surely that isn't enough? I've been over indulging in soup for years!

It depends on whether or not I'm having something with it. If it's the whole meal, I might eat the whole can.

"Serving sizes" are sometimes completely ridiculous in order to make it look like the amount of salt or sugar per serving isn't terribly unhealthy. It's a silly game, because obviously people still eat more than the "serving size"!

Half of I am having bread rolls with it.

If it’s just the soup, whole can

You can't even fit a full can in a normal sized bowl

You certainly can. They fit easily into my breakfast bowls.

We have a whole can each. Half a can is absolutely nothing. Yesterday I had a broccoli and stilton one with some fresh bread I had made.

Usually half a can, but I would often eat it with a sausage roll or and omelette with bread.

Always whole can with bread.

My husband will have tin of soup with nothing 😩. Me I need a tin of soup with lots of bread to tip in and soak up all that lovelyness. I think he is wrong all wrong I tell you!!

You wouldn't live up to your name with half a can. You'd be bitosoupdragon.

Heinz used to do 300ml (or rather, 11floz) cans, which were perfect.

You crackpots that have half a can are same as the nutters who ask for half a cup of tea.

Wrong uns.

I only buy* soup in cartons. Should I start a new thread?

*I usually make it, but buy it if reduced.

Whole can and a sandwich on the side!

@Iamblossom oooo thanks for the tip!

Usually, I'd use all of it plus a small bread roll/slice of bread to wipe down the sides as a full meal.

I don't eat cream-based soups though, I might differ if I was having a heavier soup - with beans, chili, and similar that are more dense, I do use half or less per serving.

Half a can of broth-based soup would to me be a starter with something else like a sandwich or something more which I think would be recommended to for a more balanced meal (or less salt, but I've chronic hypotension & need to keep my sodium up) or a small meal when my appetite is really poorly.

Whole can, plus toast, it needs to be a proper meal for me otherwise no point.

Whole can, or half a can with a sandwich

Whole can when it's just me, half a can when DP is sharing.

Well, as it's tomato soup, half a can, big pinch of chilli flakes and then a strong cheddar cheese sandwich in crusty white bread to dip in it.

The recommended serving size is half a can so they can put lower calorie/salt figures on the front.

This ^ it's just a marketing tactic

I'm surprised at the amount of people who just eat half. It's a piss small amount of food for a grown adult. I just looked at Heinz Big Soup on the Tesco website and it has 200 calories in the whole can/tin tin/can. Who on earth is having a circa 100 calorie lunch

Of course you can fit a tin can of soup in a normal size bowl.

Is this the same sort of fuckery as the one serving of chocolate fingers = two biscuits? Because bugger that. One mouthful maybe.

I always have the whole can of soup with bread, unless I'm having a light lunch (which is a largely hypothetical situation in any event).

@SoupDragon

... do you have a whole can or just half?

I've just noticed that a serving is half a can - Surely that isn't enough? I've been over indulging in soup for years!

As you are a soup dragon half a can is clearly not enough, a whole vat of the stuff is considered to be a dragon sized portion.

This is MN, home of the Competitive Undereaters - no doubt someone will be along soon who says that half a tin is FAR too much, and they normally split a tin between 3 and don't have room for bread on the side

I'd usually eat a full tin, but I could share one as long as there was enough bread to go with it.

I'd be surprised if there are any 'grown adults' who don't have eating disorders who have half a can of soup as their entire meal. They could be having it as a starter, or with a sandwich, crumpets or cheese on toast, as has been said by a few on this thread, but I don't think anyone has said that the half can of soup is the meal in its entirity.

I also really want soup now, but I have some cutted up fruit that's on it's useby date and I've been avoiding all weekend, so I need to eat that.

One can with a slice of bread.

If I had half a tin of soup for lunch I'd be chewing my desk an hour later!

DS and I share a can, but with a sandwich too.