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?

MN baffles/amuses me on threads like this.

Start a thread about putting a white bread sandwich, an apple and a frube in a kids lunchbox and there are almost universal replies slating it as not sufficient/nutritional/healthy enough.

Start a thread suggesting that cracking open a tin of Heinz is substantial enough for a main meal and there are a good proportion of posters agreeing that it is

Both dc wanted a tin of soup for their tea last night, one had lentil the other had chicken. They both had 2 slices of bread.

They were back in the kitchen with an hour making cereal!

I was not even going to attempt to give dp a tin of soup for tea, lunch maybe but not for a main meal, we had pork and veg.

"m not sure a tin of soup would fill me up in the same way a thick home made one does"

You can get thick tinned soup. Sainsbury's 3 bean soup fills me up without needing any bread with it.

I really want to eat ChickenVindaloo mum's soup now! Sounds amazing.

I would still rather eat all of the ingredients of soup whole, than them all blended together - its the chewing and bulk that fill me up I think.

Tbf DH doesn't think any meal counts as dinner if it doesn't have meat

My husband didn't think he'd eaten if he hadn't had meat when I married him 30 years ago.
I've now trained him so that if I serve meat two days in a row he asks what the occasion is.

We had homemade butternut squash soup with lots of crusty bread and some cheese for our meal this evening.

User9718, Strange isn't it? I really dislike the tinned one now, it tastes kind of metallic. Sometimes, for added opulence, I add a splash of cream to it.

Tin of soup each and bread counts as dinner in this house, but the bread must be especially naice... And sometimes we stick some cheese in there too to make it go all melty. Brie is good, or chedder will do.

The best soup we've made is a blended home made one.

I did it last week - a normal cawl (stew) but shoved in the nutribullet. It turns into a very thick, smooth soup and it's bloody lovely.

Sorry I hadn't rtft and realised it was tinned
Would you say the same about home made lentil and vegetable? Because the dc eat that and I feel smug. Please don't ruin it for me...

Lentils are pure protein aren't they? (I never use them)

Homemade soup is completely different IMO...you know that there's decent protein and veg in there, either blended or in chunks. It's going to be a lot higher in protein and vitamins and much more filling as a main meal.

If it's homemade soup with potatoes, veg, lentils and chicken in it - or minestrone - then yes, the DH and 4 kids here will eat that with bread for dinner.
There's nothing in Heinz soup really except for sugar and salt. DH wouldn't eat that unless he was camping or snowed in. Just trying to imagine his face

Why not? As long as there's enough soup and bread? Yes, it's definitely adequate.

If DH is still hungry he can make himself something else. After the children went to bed, obviously....

I would be fine just having soup for dinner if I wasn't that hungry but I wouldn't serve it to my husband as it just wouldn't touch the sides!

Sounds lovely to me. He could have had some cheese with his bread-mountain if he felt it was lacking in protein. (I know that's assuming you have cheese, but I can't bear to think of a sad, sad fridge without any cheese, so hope you have at least a spot of mouse-trap).

YABU. For Oxtail. Yuck!. That is all.

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Really? DH usually prepares a cold supper. Or cooks potatoes and steak...

So... yes, I would serve bread and soup to DH. I actually do that rather often. Potatoe soup with ham or tomatoe soup with goat cheese. He hasn't complained (yet...?)

Soup isn't a proper meal because you don't chew it and don't eat it with a knife and fork. It's boring too. OK for lunch but definitely not dinner. I say this as a soup maker. Hospital have just chastised my dad for eating soup in the evening instead of real food.

I'd be fine with that. When we were all at home my mum used to make 'fridge soup' on a saturday all the ends of veg that needed eating with lentils and herbs. Served with an uncut loaf and block of butter.. it was amazing!

Im partial to a tin of tomato soup with 2 slices of cheese on toast. Quick easy and filling

We often have soup with bread and grated cheese as an evening meal in winter, but it's always homemade, very thick, with loads of veggies and lentils or pearl barley, etc.
I don't think tinned soups are nearly as filling, but I wouldn't mind having them occasionally. I don't think tinned soup would feel like a meal to my dh, though, even with plenty of bread.

Soup is often a go to evening meal here. But it is homemade and full of stuff, almost casserole type. We batch make a large amount and freeze in adult and child size portions so can grab out last minute if we aren't organised, can't be bothered, or half of us busy.
I wouldn't give tin soup to children regularly as I think it's too salty

A tin of soup is usually two servings.

I think we have married the same man. My DH would be asking for his main course but I'd be perfectly happy and satisfied with that.

If it makes you feel better, my 3yo had weetabix for dinner...

This is reminding me of a time when we were all postgrads when a new friend of mine invited my boyfriend and I to dinner, and put a delicious homemade mushroom soup and homemade bread on the table.

My very foodie and hospitable boyfriend (now DH, who is still to this day liable to produce a four-course banquet for chance callers) said it was delicious - which it was - but was clearly mildly puzzled when my friend urged second helpings all round. 'No, thanks,' he said politely, 'I'll keep my appetite for the next course.' Friend bit her lip and looked awkward. That had been dinner.

Completely appropriate full dinner for her, starter for DH.

Soup wouldn't be dinner for me, fine for lunch but not for tea. I need something to bite!

I was brought up having a soup night each week. My Mum's minestrone with bacon, beans, potatoes or French onion served with fresh crusty bread and cheese. Loved it then, love it now. Not so sure about tinned having the same effect.