To think soup and bread is an adequate dinner?

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Our shopping turned up late and I'd lost all will to cook. The kids wanted soup (tinned!) and bread. So I've done soup for all. They've had chicken, we've had oxtail. One tin each.

I've also heated up four loaves of frozen bread, the Demi baguette ones.

DH says this isn't a proper dinner and he'll have something else after. I'm stuffed. It's a fuck ton of bread and butter and a whole tin of soup ffs.

Who is BU? Me and the kids, or DH?

If he's still whinging, tell him to make himself something to eat, and do the family meal for the rest of the week.

Then LTB.

Not much nutritional value? What soup do you have, we have lentil and vegetable - how much more nutritious do you want?

It wouldn't normally be enough for me but I do lots of exercise so have quite a high calorie intake. On my rest day it would be okay.

It definitely wouldn't be enough for DH.

Oh shit, I'm serving homemade soup for supper and forgot to buy bread as an accompaniment........

Is my marriage over?

It really isn't the end of the world OP.

Nah - not enough for me - I think of soup as a drink really. I would want something solid and meaty. Get your DH to make his own though!

If it was my only dinner (after a meagre ham and mustard sandwich and a banana 5 hours earlier), I'd feel a bit "cheated" at not having a proper dinner. But after say a bigger cooked lunch it's fine. If I was still hungry I'd just make some buttered toast a bit later.

We'd all be perfectly happy with that

YANBU. As long as it wasn't broth, which it wasn't.

Love soup for dinner. Might have some tonight.

It's a light lunch to me

If the baguette had been made into a sandwich, filled with ham, cheese or tuna and salad, and served with the soup, then it would have been more like a dinner

If it's with crusty bead and butter it's definitely a proper tea. Veg in the soup, carbs in the bread and protein in the inch thick butter!
Home made carrot and coriander is my favorite but I wouldn't turn my nose up at a tin of Heinz tomato even though I know it's basically 50% sugar.
I always tend to snack in the evening after tea though so can see where your dh is comig from but I would do that even if I'd had a massive portion of cottage pie or something very substantial. After a couple of hours I can always eat again.

Stealth, it doesn't matter if you're eating Unicorn soup, it's still processed in a can and not great for you.

I've just grabbed a tin of veg soup - it has 4.8g of protein in the whole can. 164 calories. It counts as one of your five a day.

That's tiny tiny amounts for a main meal...and not surprising that tinned soup doesn't fill many people up for long.

We have cheese and sometimes a salad with our soup, and warm bread and butter. Home made soup this way makes a great dinner, ideal if people are coming in and out at different times. Tinned soup although often lovely isn't as substantial. We have it with cheese toasties for a quick lunch or tea at weekends or in the holidays.

Soup is one of the only proper hot foods I eat so... I'd definitely side with appropriate for main meal side.

I find soup on its own not very satisfying, but find that adding even a small spoonful of Greek yog, or cream cheese or a spoonful of grated hard cheese makes all the difference.

A 400g can of oxtail soup has fewer than 200 calories in it

www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=258147523

I think a tin of soup and a Demi pan would fill me but it mightn't satisfy the appetite for a 'dinner' (when dinner has the biggest meal of the day meaning rather than indicating the time of day it's eaten meaning)

There is a cafe in Edinburgh which mainly sells soup and bread.
Gorgeous stuff.
Though I must admit its usually daytime its open.
Union of Genius btw

We don't ever buy tinned soup, so I don't know about calorie value, or whatever. But if it was homemade soup and bread, I think that's perfectly fine. We have that a lot for dinner - and DH has a 30-mile cycle commute a day. I think the half-baguette of bread per person is quite a lot, and a whole tin of soup each sounds quite a lot as well - but I don't know if they're mainly made of water.

Too much starch for me, no vegetables and I don't like tinned soup - but the quantity would be fine.

My husband would need cold meat and cheese with it and a salad. And some kind of pudding.

Your DH is welcome to make himself additional food, isn't he?

I think that's fine. You're meant to eat more lightly at dinnertime, aren't you? 'Breakfast like a king...' and all that. I appreciate though that we're generally used to having a big dinner. But as a one-off, it's fine. No one is going to waste away.

We have homemade soup with poached eggs in, or dumplings, or cheese. Def a main meal.

I'd consider it a decent evening meal. I often feel more full up after soup and bread than I would a protein/carb/veg meal.

But MN isn't the best place to ask as it's so diverse. Some people would eat less and some people think that a 2 person portion of filled pasta isn't enough for 1 person or a 4 portion pie would only serve one adult and a toddler.

It's not enough for a main part of sups. Is there nothing rise after?

Soup for dinner is fine if you've had a proper meal for lunch... but if he's still hungry, fair enough. If a man is supposed to eat about 2500 calories a day, a tin of soup would be about 230kcal and one of those little baguettes about 500. So unless he's stuffed himself on a massive lunch, I'm not surprised he's hungry. On average grown men need more calories than women or children!

Tinned soup and processed bread is only for weekend lunch, probably for kids. Ie it's junk.

It's not for meals when you're working and need nutritious, filling food. Especially in winter.

Give the poor man some meat, healthy carbs and fresh veg, woman!

Then he will do the same for you, naturally!