Tomato soup and a bagel enough for lunch?

[DorothyCrowfootHodgkin]

My DP and I had a bagel with jam for breakfast around 8:30, then a bagel with cream of tomato soup (out of a tin) for lunch. I just said I'm feeling peckish but he's saying I shouldn't given we had lunch.

I don't think that a bagel and some soup is enough to see you through to dinner (around 7:00pm) unless you've also had a big breakfast.

What would you say?

As a type one diabetic it wouldn’t be anywhere near enough to keep me safely going until tea time.

Yeah I’d be roasting him for dinner after that comment. Some days that might be enough for me, most days it probably wouldn’t…if you’re hungry, then have something to eat and damn the man!

I never understand these questions - everyone is different! We need different calorie levels to keep us going, we're involved in different activities during the day, we have different biologies. It's a non-question. For some people it might be enough and for some it wouldn't. I'm not sure who died and made him in charge of your central nervous, endocrine and gastrointestinal systems. Plonker.

I absolutely did have something and told him to mind his own business. Not sure if we had half a tin each but I think it was one each (can't check the recycling bin atm!). And it was a bagel each.

Bagels are the work of the devil: taste soooo good when toasted and with good toppings, but are basically condensed non-nutritious carbs which lead to a massive post-lunch slump. I have a love-hate relationship with them. I can only eat them now with a fuckton of protein on top...which means I'm stuffed and feel yuck.

Bagel with jam is the worst: sugar on carbs. Not good for feeling well.

Bagel with soup is marginally but not much better: adequate calories, won't make you feel good.

Two bagels in a day = constipation and too many carb-sourced calories.

Scooped bagel, with cottage cheese and cucumbers and other high fiber things sprinkled on top or in a side salad = much better. Soup can then be optional.

That's me personally. Every human body is different.

Or maybe because it's only a few hundred calories in total. If you eat say 1700kcal in a day, you'd be having the majority at your evening meal after two bagels and half a tin of soup up to 7pm.

Of course it's enough you've probably had 800 calories today. So with your dinner it will be just an average day surely? You may well be hungry, but whether or not you eat anything is entirely up to you.

Is he saying "you shouldn't" logically feel hungry (he doesn't understand why you do as he thinks you've both eaten a lot and HE'S not hungry)? Or is he saying "you shouldn't" eat? Either way, unless you'd specifically asked him to monitor and advise on your food intake, it's kind of pointless for him to comment. Appetites are different, as are metabolisms and levels of activity. You eat if you're hungry (I think I would be but two bagels is more bread than I'd eat in two meals and I'd probably want some lean protein and maybe fresh veg at this stage) and if he's happy to wait until dinner then that's fine for him.

no fibre or protein just carbs and sugar...
It's not volume that is the problem here...

It's a really weird question you're asking because it might be enough for one person but not for another.

It also might be enough for someone today but not next week because on that day, they just simply feel a bit hungrier 🤷‍♂️

If your hungry, then eat. Why is your partner saying you shouldn’t eat?

You would benefit from making better food choices though. The food you’ve eaten isn’t very nutritious and is leaving you hungry.

Bagels and the tinned soup are jolly useful for lunch but are high in sugar and are ultra processed so your body metabolises the ingredients really quickly, so you’re likely to feel hungry before dinner. I read something about bagels being not great recently, I hadn’t realised. How about peanut butter on them and an apple afterwards.

I'd be starving by now if that was all I'd eaten today! No fibre and no protein, the two things that keep you fuller for longer.
My mother makes stupid comments like this all the time, you can't possibly be hungry......well I am, it's a fact!!

I can never understand the point of a scooped bagel. I'd rather just have crackers, and saves picking all the bread out too.

*you’re

So much bagel already

Is it the new sourdough?

Eat a snack

Oh, a bagel off is it?

I cant eat bagels anymore but my all time favourite bagel combo was M+S sesame bagel, toasted, thick thick butter and then M+S 'seafood cocktail' sandwich filler

On two open halves, so you get double the butter and double the sandwich filler.

I really miss it. But I dont even think the seafood sandwich filler is the same anymore so I could never replicate it. This was in the early 90s.

I'd say that's a decent enough lunch but I would absolutely need a drink and snack at about 4 before my proper dinner 😅

Granola? You might as well main line cocoa pops.

I have a cup of warm water with a teaspoon of red wine vinegar for breakfast. Sees me right through till supper time.

Now I want a bagel.

What was in the seafood cocktail? Was it mayonnaise-based?

I like a scooped ( @ShowmetheMapletree chewier and more bagel-tasting than a cracker, and delicious when warm) Everything But the Bagel bagel, with whitefish salad, cucumber slices, tomato slices, avocado slices, pickled thinly sliced red onion. Both halves. Cup of coffee. Nobody talking to me. Heaven.

😂😂😂

I would say a bagel is a biggish breakfast, and I wouldn't have another one with lunch. The empty carbs are making you hungry, those meals have very little food value.

I don't know why he has an opinion on your hunger and if youre hungry, you're hungry. I find on days when im ar work and busy, with nothing else available, I'd be fine on that. If I'm at home and a bit bored, I'd be looking for food by 3pm at least.

Ultimately if you're over weight you're over eating. If you're not, you're not.

Yes, it was pink, if I recall, basically prawns and cheap crabsticks (which they were called in those days). Beautiful

Also forgot liberal use of black pepper on top

Peak MN!