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?

Big green salad, hearty soup, and bread & butter is one of my favourite suppers. Mum used to call it a 'Beggar's Banquet'.

Nobody is being unreasonable. If you go to a restaurant, soup and bread is a starter so it probably isn't filling enough as a main for everyone. But a thick soup with lots of veg and bread and butter could be filling to others with a smaller appetite.

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

The point of the thread isn't really to assert the op's feminist right to not provide food to a man

If I got home from work on a day where dinner was dh's job and he presented me with a tin of oxtail, i'd be pissed off. That's not dinner IMO. If it was the op's job to provide dinner tonight, IMO she didn't.

I'll have soup and bread for tea every so often. DH would assume it was a starter though...

No-one is being unreasonable. Your DH is still hungry so he can get something later.

It'd be a very light dinner for me with no extra bits and I'm a slim female and relatively slothful.

A tin of soup for dinner only happens here where both dh and I are in a 'i'm so fucking tired i'd rather be hungry than actually have to prepare a meal' mood

I'm actually eating soup (tomato and lentils) and coop bake at home rolls as I type this. :) For dinner. :)

That's a light lunch, not a decent meal. I'm with your oh. I'd need something else as well.

For me it's not a dinner (nor even a lunch really)

I am not a soup fan though and I am fat.

Definitely not a main meal IMO, hate that people say soup is a meal but then do what's essentially just a broth, for soup to be a meal it has to have some actual substance to it

Giddy, thanks for the face but I can comment however I like and I felt it relevant to the thread. Is that me asserting 'feminist rights' too?

My mum's soup IS a meal but it has fresh veg, lentils and big mahoosive chunks of ham. It is really thick. Not just broth.

It's really cold out there. I think people need more food to keep warm.

Home-made soup with lentils and/or meat and lots of veg, plus wholemeal bread maybe. Though I'd probably want cheese or pudding too.

A warmed up tin and shop bread is a lunchtime snack.

Arf at people saying a "whole" tin of soup like we're still under rationing.....

It's a snack here. Dinner isn't dinner unless it involves more prep than using a tin opener.

That's a starter for me, even with bread. That said I don't think either of you are being unreasonable.

Soup is a starter or lunch for dh but I eat it as a main

Ooh, I love a bit of soup. If tins are , I actually prefer the Heinz powdered Cupsoup (not to be confused with Cup-a-Soups - they taste of pure saccharin) and a crusty roll, stuffed with cheese, ham and mustard.

Tesco do a really delicious and hearty fresh chorizo and butterbean soup.

Giddy, thanks for the face but I can comment however I like

Likewise.

I thought your comment was unnecessary and stupid. HTH.

That wold be Ok as a lunch (or starter) but not main meal (which we have in the evenings).

I'd be starving still!

Arf at people saying a "whole" tin of soup like we're still under rationing

This, too. At less than 200 calories, you're hardly gorging by having a whole tin

Depends on the soup, what else you ate that day, and what your lifestyle is like.

A broth based soup without a protein, when you've only had a sandwich for lunch and you went to the gym isn't going to be enough.

A creamy soup or one with lots of protein e.g. chicken/ lentil, if you had a proper lunch, and you live a sedentary lifestyle, is probably fine.

I've done soup three times for dinner in the last two weeks (homemade but husband equally happy with tinned). I usually do a baked brie or camembert or a bit of ham to go with but even without it's a tasty/filling enough dinner IMO.

RubbishMantra Yes yes to the heinz powdered soups. The cream of tomato one is actually thick and creamy :o

I'd be fine with that, husband wouldn't.

Bread and soup is fine under the circumstances - it's not as if you 'll be serving it all week. Full marks to your kids for suggesting something practical.