About DH's attitude towards the meal I cooked?

[FlatsInDagenham]

I used the leftover beef and made beef noodle soup. It was delicious - full of ginger, garlic, chilli, soy, stock, vegetables, coriander, masses of noodles and lots and lots of lovely leftover roast beef. A massive panful, enough to feed at least 6, just for me and DH (DC don't eat chillies) with plenty left to freeze for another day.

DH complained that he didn't want 'soup' for his evening meal. I pointed out that exactly the same components on a plate with less water would have been a stir fry. He said that you get less in a bowl. I offered to get him another bowl. He said (with disgust) that he didn't want two bowls of soup for his tea.

I spent ages making that soup and it was bloody delicious, and healthy too.

Just had to have a moan about it here.

And ask you: Am I being unreasonable to serve up soup for an evening meal?

1tess.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/essentials-of-the-perfect-ramen/

Noodle soup in this house looks like the bottom picture on this link. Not enough for some people? Gosh.

Now I am googling pictures of ramen and making myself hungry.

kansai-inochi.com/2013/03/16/food-in-japan-8-ramen-edition/

Do you have soup for tea often? Does Hubby rush in & say "I hope we've got soup for tea" often?

I may have a bowl of soup for lunch, but I personally wouldn't class it as a filling evening meal and I certainly wouldn't dish it up for my lot as such - they'd moan like buggery!!

When DH cooks my dinner, I say 'thanks love' especially after a day at work.

If I am still hungry after I do this amazing thing where I just get up and get some more food.

I never argue with people who want to give me food.

bloody sounds delicious (and healthy)

can you give me the exact recipe??

CaptainGrinch - even when 'soup' is an enormous bowl of food like in the second link I posted? I would LOVE that for my dinner every night.

Sorry, honestly doesn't look appealing! While I like soup, it's not what I'd class as a main meal.....

I love soup.

Rude. Sorry OP. I'd love your soup.

If I am still hungry after I do this amazing thing where I just get up and get some more food.

Exactly Morloth.

If soup ain't filling you up you're not eating enough if it.

Morloth That is amazing. Imagine being able to do that. Do you do things like "making toast" and "pouring a bowl of cereal"? It's very inventive.

I would never dream of slagging off something that's been cooked for me. I just wouldn't. It's rude, as Crowler says.

Have I missed something? Soup is surely a meal on it's own? OK, it's not a full roast dinner, but a bowl of lovely hot soup and some crusty bread is a good meal.

OP can you come round and make me some soup? I'd be very appreciative.

mmm this thread is making me want noodle soup. The perfect cold weather dinner for a hard working man

Sorry, honestly doesn't look appealing! While I like soup, it's not what I'd class as a main meal.....

Horses for courses. It's not really soup, it's a stir fry in broth rather than a thick sauce.

I must stop reading this as some of the answers are giving me the rage, and I need to get a life.

Of course soup is food and suitable as dinner.

Yes, your DH is rude and ungrateful.

These soups look/sound delicious and more than enough for a dinner.

A big bowl of soup with barley or beans and pasta and chinky veg etc is bloody filling. As would now m&s of veg and meat and noodles.

And you know what, there's such a thing as a fridge the "d"g could easily have graves something later on if he got hungry. Or order a pizza if he so desired.

I'd tell him what I tell the kids. That's dinner you eat it it go without and if your gonna whine you can go whine on your own in the bedroom.

Your husband is an arse

Bloody phone . As would loads of veg.

Chunky veg.

It's funny, primal, I wouldn't have expected it, but this thread is also making me cross. Strange. But it has also made me want to cook beef pho for tonight.

All these people saying -it's just a stir fry with stock: - who looks at a perfectly nice stir fry and thinks - 'what this needs is diluting with salty water'?

I really do think that wet savoury food is vile.

Knowing this if DH were to serve this up as dinner he would get pretty short shrift from me. Especially if he had used up the leftovers to make such an abomination.

I would and will be tonight WorrySighWorrySigh. I just took salmon out of the freezer to make lovely Thai fish soup.

Worry, you may not like noodle soup but some people do. That's not the point of the thread anyway; the OP's DH doesn't have a problem with 'wet savoury food' but with the amount/fillingness of what he was served.

About which he was ungrateful, silly, and plain wrong

Giles , I was just staring at 'chinky veg' and thinking 'how racist'.

OP, yanbu. If I weren't vegetarian, it sounds delicious, and I certainly love vegetarian Asian soups with noodles and tofu and lots of ginger and greens.

I think some posters are seeing 'soup' and thinking of a little Heinz single-serving can of cream of tomato or something, rather than whacking great bowls of noodles, meat, broth and vegetables.

Nick Nairn does a very nice recipe for salmon broth www.salmon-recipes.co/spicy-salmon-broth.htm

When someone cooks you a meal you sit down and fucking eat it.Then you say "thank you"

OP would he be the same if you served him a vegetarian main meal? Just strikes me the "soup isn't a main meal" contingent might tend to want meat AT every meal ( although FIL thinks us profligate they also expect meat for every evening meal which is tedious)

Personally I class such an attitude as fussiness and rudeness-would he say this if you went to a friends for dinner?if not he shouldn't say it to you. He should have eaten it. If he was still hungry he should have got some more noodles.and then said something later about preferring stir fry in future although he liked the soup.

So YANBU