to give my family pumpkin soup for their dinner?

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The pumpkin soup turned out almost edible quite well this year. Will serve with nice crusty bread and real butter.

Kids might eat it (except for youngest who's a fussarse like his dad.)

Husband will complain and end up making himself cheese on toast later, he reckons soup isn't food, it's just lumpy coffee.

AIBU? I can't be bothered actually cooking anything and the soup is all made and ready to go.

I would cook bacon and add that to it, to give it a bit more taste. But it sounds fine to me. :)

Real butter? Is that like 'nice' ham

There would be uproar if I gave the family soup for dinner, which is a shame as I LOVE it!

Soup is a meal in our house :) As long a plenty of potatoes went in and there is lots of bread no one can have any cause to complain of hunger.

Sounds good. I'm doing pumpkin casserole tonight, pumpkin soup tomorrow and pumpkin pie sometime. I'm going large! If they hate it they can have bread and butter.

I think it depends on how stodgy it is. If it is a nice thick soup, served with lots of bread, or even a bacon butty (I have an urge for one, hence the keep mentioning it), then its fine as a meal.

I'm with your husband. Soup isn't a meal - it's a starter.
Could you make something more substantial like a pumpkin risotto instead?

Stew is a meal though, and that is only a bulky soup. :)

Have you tried making more of a broth with pumpkin bits rather than a smooth soup

Pumpkin is horrible! Especially the flesh from those big carving pumpkins.

Pumpkin Fritters - it's all they are good for!

Yabu, pumpkin smells vile! Yet to force myself to taste it but gagging whilst it's being carved isn't a good start

Soup's a meal in our house.

In fact I believe we are also having pumpkin soup this evening, with crusty bread and cheese.

Yummy!

Pumpkin is the only thing I can think of that smells So bad but tastes so nice It really is gag inducing yet tastes nothing like it smells THANK GOD!

Gah - found the recipe I planned on trying while all the pumpkins were in the shops (and forgot about). Roast Pumpkin and Bramley Apple soup - I thought that one sounded well-nice.

We quite regularly have soup and tonnes of crusty bread as a meal - cheap, easy to bung on the hob and forget about (my kinda cooking) and actually contains vegetables and stuff you're meant to eat.

Nononono pumpkin is delicious, yummy, yum yum. Wouldn't eat it myself, mind.

(Pumpkin Soup is also one of my top few all time fave picture books - will add that note of irrelevance in there)

Papaya is worse than pumpkin, smells like puke.

Depends on what the other meals they have had today is for me.

DD sometimes has soup and bread in an evening if she has had a school dinner during the day.

DH would still be hungry if he just had soup and bread. He has a sandwich for lunch at work.

Mind you, not keen on pumpkin here anyway so wouldn't be top choice here anyway.

For me a casserole or stew is soemthing more than a soup though - full of potatoes and startchy veg, a thick gravy type sauce and then something like beef.

YABU - pumpkin is disgusting. Like all squash imo.

If you can't be arsed to cook make them sandwiches or something. But don't be cruel and make them eat pumpkin.

You can't eat those huge behemoth pumpkins anyway (well you can, but they are watery and bitter and even more urgh than proper eating pumpkins).

Hmm - pumpkin soup made in the UK can be a bit bland, the pumpkins just aren't as tasty IMO but YANBU to serve soup & bread for dinner. Not at all.

I love soup and bread for dinner personally.

We have soup at least once maybe twice a week for dinner.

How on earth can soup for dinner be unreasonable?