Soup as a meal? Following on from another post

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Just that really.
There seems to be very conflicting thoughts on soup as an evening meal.
We quite often have soup, with hotdogs, burgers (yep you read that right, thanks mum ) or toasties.....

To their hair = to the top. I think.

Similar to 'you'll be full up to the eyeballs if you eat all that'.

Soup absolutely is a meal.
We love a good homemade soup here in the 3Cats household.
DH is vegetarian so it’s a weekly staple throughout the winter months.
Spiced butternut squash, leek n potato, minestrone or a vegetable pearl barley kind of take on scotch broth but meat free, all very hearty and wholesome.
What’s not to love. Definitely needs bread too.

Soup is a lunch for me. I would only have it for tea if I’d eaten a lot during the day.

Now I see the magical thinking extends to believing that home-made bread contains less calories than shop-bought bread made with the same amount of flour. How would that work, scientifically?

I would add that when I've made bread we've eaten a lot more than we normally would, as it's very moreish, so definitely not a way of keeping the pounds off ...

Soup for lunch, yes. But not for an evening meal unless a more substantial meal has been eaten for lunch.

It’s not the tinned soup and supermarket bread that’s fattening. It’s the half inch of butter I put on every slice.

And yes, a hearty soup is like stew - definitely a meal, and preferably served with equal quantities of bread and butter

@IHeartGeneHunt

Can you share your leek and barley please

Definitely not.

Again... you took my thread about soup, which didn't have a single mention of a tin inning, and have started parent bashing how people feed their kids.... completely out of context of my post

Depends on the soup.

Tonight we are having bean, vegetable and pasta soup. If I served it on a plate, rather than in a bowl and didn't partially blend it, I could call it stew (it's pretty thick and filling). So that's a meal with homemade bread (and we often have cheese with the bread as well).

Tinned tomato soup - not so much.

I might if I had some home made soup in or a fresh soup. Not mad keen on tinned but dh has it most days for lunch so he wouldn’t be keen on soup for tea too.

but it does feel more like a lunch than dinner.

Would probably keep me going for a few hours but I don’t feel like i’ve eaten unless I have a lot of protein.

I generally eat 2 meals a day so if it were lunch or breakfast on a 3 meal day that would be ok but if it were for dinner I’d probably end up having a snack afterwards. I do love a mushroom soup though.

@Armless32

Can you see into my kitchen? I do have a bread maker, thank you very much.
I don't feed them tinned soup and hotdogs every week either, yet another assumption....

Thankfully I don't have to rely on the Ipad to parent my kids while I home cook from scratch....... as the have made it to 14 and 16 without death by oversalting!!

This thread has totally given me a hankering for Heinz tomato soup and white toast.

I have it as a meal but I'm a middle-aged woman with a largely sedentary lifestyle, not an energetic and growing teenager or someone with a physically demanding job. Also agree with previous poster that protein is important for the feeling of satiety.

Yes try to have it every week from October through to the end of lent. I consider quite healthful it is often a minestrone like my DM used to make,with lovely fresh bread and cheese, or a chowder type thing. Delicious.

Tinned soup is so fattening that a friend was put on a soup diet to lose enough weight to have a gastric band fitted.

The only soup DS1 (18) will eat is tinned tomato. Or his own homemade version which is passata, herbs and grated cheese. That and 3 slices of (brown) bread is a meal to him.

DS2 on the otherhand loves all and any soup. Preferably homemade but tinned is also good.

The weird ideas some people get in their head about food.

Getting fat on tinned soup… hilarious

home made bread doesn’t make you gain weight… course it doesn’t… it’s got special magic properties because mummy made it, doesn’t even matter how much better you put on it because it’s mummy magic protects you from those calories too

Depends on the soup. I sometimes make soup at home if there's lots of leftover veggies or meat and I make a really thick or chunky soup. Served up with bread and cheese, it's really filling and is definitely a meal.

A tin of soup on its own probably wouldn't feel like a meal unless there were other things to go with it.

Soup is not a dinner. No matter how homemade/yummy/substantial. I’d find it quite miserable to come home hungry and be offered that.