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miso soup with your 5 a day is a complete meal

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magrate · 12/02/2015 20:23

Dh is complaining that I did miso soup for dinner. It contains a bunch of spring onions, garlic, ginger, two big sweet potatoes, chilli, 2 cups of peas, a bunch of coriander, seaweed, 100g of ground up seasme and a big spoon full of fresh live miso. That's a complete meal right?

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Stealthpolarbear · 12/02/2015 20:47

" If I was cooking for a boy then would add noodles too"
Confused

CSLewis · 12/02/2015 20:48

Where did you get the fresh live miso from, out of interest?

(My DH would complain too. As would my kids. I can just about get away with giving them a thick hearty full-of-veg-and-homemade-chicken-stock soup for dinner, if I also serve a large amount of bread with it too...Confused)

Original poster
magrate · 12/02/2015 20:49

Sorry but the sweet potatoes and peas are full of carbs and very filling. You can get filled without eating grains

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Stealthpolarbear · 12/02/2015 20:49

Does sound lovely though

WiIdfire · 12/02/2015 20:50

I'm totally with you on this being a delicious dinner. However, my husband would be with yours, as a proper dinner apparently does not include anything soup-based, sandwich based, jacket potato or cold food. Fortunately my bloke does most of the cooking so he gets what he wants, but you get my sympathy.

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magrate · 12/02/2015 20:50

From planet organic, its expensive but really worth it. English brand

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Eltonjohnsflorist · 12/02/2015 20:51

Not sure why you asked Hmm no one else thinks it's filling

WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 12/02/2015 20:51

Noodles, you can't have that sort of soup and call it a full meal without noodles. In our house it would also have prawns or chicken, but if you are veggie then obviously not.

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 12/02/2015 20:52

What's 'fresh live miso'? I buy it in sachets (for 5:2 fasting days, as mentioned!)

QuietNinjaTardis · 12/02/2015 20:53

I've had miso soup with noodles in as a main and it was filling and yum. If you've got all that in there I'd find it filling too.

Stealthpolarbear · 12/02/2015 20:54

Sometimes mn feels like a different world. Bet I couldn't get fresh live miso within a hundred miles
Now if I'm after one of those ready made hamburgers in a bun in a plastic box, all ready for the microwave...

BunnyLebowski · 12/02/2015 20:54

It's not a man thing.

I wouldn't find that a satisfying dinner. I'd be grateful that DP had cooked for me but wouldn't sit down with giddy hunger and get stuck into what is basically stock with veg floating in it.

WhataMistakeaToMakea · 12/02/2015 20:54

Sorry in my house soup is not a meal! It can be part of one, but not classed as one.

ChristyMooreRocks · 12/02/2015 20:54

No, my DH would laugh in my face if i served this up for a main dinner, and would be reaching for the toaster immediately afterwards.

I had miso soup once and it just tasted like fish food - did I get a dodgy batch or something?

Liara · 12/02/2015 20:54

Sounds yummy. I would happily serve it to dh, who does a physical job and eats nothing much during the day and two hyperactive boys.

But they would probably have some bread and cheese afterwards, and dh would be likely to chop a bit of dried sausage into it. He wouldn't complain though, and would thank me for the lovely soup.

I do what I do, and if anyone wants something extra they can help themselves.

WhataMistakeaToMakea · 12/02/2015 20:55

What is miso by the way?!

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 12/02/2015 20:55

Sorry, I mean, how does it come? Paste? Tin? Powder?

skylark2 · 12/02/2015 20:55

Has he already had a cooked meal?

I'd happily have that as my non-main meal of the day. We regularly have soup for lunch, or in the evening if we had a cooked meal at midday. It seems a bit slight for the main meal.

LadyLuck10 · 12/02/2015 20:56

Most of the ingredients you listed are just for flavour real and nothing substantially filling. I wouldn't call garlic, ginger and coriander filling.

CalicoBlue · 12/02/2015 20:56

Sounds lovely. I would consider it a main meal, but I love veg and soup. I think it sounds very filling, esp with sweet potato. My Dh would not even eat it as a starter, but he is very fussy and does not like veg.

Stealthpolarbear · 12/02/2015 20:56

I Google. Some sort of mould
I bough miso soup once, tasted like dishwater. This sounds so nice

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magrate · 12/02/2015 20:57

Where about are you? I sometimes take for granted living in London, fresh miso is in loads of places, I picked up some kimchi too on my way back

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Stealthpolarbear · 12/02/2015 20:57

Miso is a traditional Japanese seasoning produced by fermenting soybeans with salt and the fungus Aspergillus oryzae, known in Japanese as k?ji, and sometimes rice, barley, or other ingredients. Wikipedia

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 12/02/2015 20:58

The thing might be, if it's 1400 calories over 2 litres, you would struggle to fit sufficient calories/protein in your stomach because you'd be full of water IYSWIM. So I'd you'd be hungry again within the hour.

Elledouble · 12/02/2015 20:58

Erm, we had miso soup for tea last night. It had onion, a pepper, carrots, courgette, spring greens, broad beans, noodles and tofu in it. We were both satisfied (the 6'4" bearded man in my life and 30wk pregnant me!).