To think soup and bread is an adequate dinner?

[FlapsTie]

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?

Sounds fine to me really. I often have tomato soup for dinner after the gym, with some cheese melted through it for protein. It's better for you to have a hearty breakfast and/or lunch than a massive dinner anyway.

Chicken and oxtail don't contain any veg which would be my main issue, but as a one-off emergency dinner, totally fine.

These threads really make me laugh... Add protein- not enough veg- it's a one off! Who cares if you have the odd day you don't eat your vegetable/ protein targets? Posters always sound massively inflexible and regimented

Tinned soup and bread is perfectly fine as an emergency meal. If he is still hungry and wants something else, then let him make it. Unless he is overweight or greedy I can't see the harm in it. Honestly, it's no biggie.

Hospital have just chastised my dad for eating soup in the evening instead of real food.

That's interesting - here in France soup is a normal winter evening meal and is positively encouraged by nutritionists providing you also have cheese or yoghurt and fruit.
The French rarely have soup at lunchtime - they tend to have a "proper" meal then, with a raw vegetable or salad starter, main & veg, cheese and dessert.

Meluzyna is it true what I sea on a programme about diets around the world French people often have 1.5-2 hours for lunch?!

meluzyna

I didn't grow up in the UK (mainly on the continent) and I was taught to eat the same way as well.

Good breakfast, big lunch, small-ish/light supper.

Nah, it's not a dinner. Sorry.

If it had been a thick homemade beef and chunky veg broth then maybe.

I would never just serve soup and bread for dinner, that doesn't mean I don't think it isn't ok, I will eat soup and a sandwich if I felt like it or provide it if someone asked, but I don't consider it a main meal unless funds were really tight. Nutritionally it is fine, just a bit basic.

It would depend what I'd had for lunch really. If I'd had a sandwich for lunch the idea of some tinned soup and some bread for dinner really wouldn't thrill me.

Meh, neither.

It wouldn't fill me, DS1 or DP but it'd be fine for DS2.

I think YABU to suggest you know better than him about whether he's full or not!

That's perfectly fine in my opinion.

DD and I often have soup and bread as dinner when we are down the caravan and can't be bothered to go out and eat. She chooses Heinz tomato and I'll have Heinz Lentil.... DH will walk to the chippy because "Soup is not a meal"

But if I make my 'Sunday Dinner Soup" for Monday tea (all the leftovers with chicken stock added and whizzed up to a thick mush) he is more than happy.

I love the oxtail! Just made a stew with oxtail and diced beef.
Back to the topic - it's totally adquae dinner. No wonder people are getting obese if this doesn't count as a great dinner!

OP, I think most folk are being a bit harsh on you. It's not like you fed them ice lollies followed by Haribo.

Hopefully your DH has filled himself up with his cornflakes, and harmony has been restored in the Flaps household.

The rest of you - chill!

Yes Clandestino no wonder people are getting fat when they see less than 10% of their recommended calories per day as inadequate for their main meal

Soup isn't dinner. It's one of those food items you have when your sick and cant stomach a big meal.
Its not bloody lunch, I'd be starving after that.

It's only convention that days bread and soup is lunch, of you're full, you're full.

Oh I can't stand the people who get all 'but......but.......but what about your 5 a day?'. You can have a perfectly healthy day without eating 5 portions of fruit and veg. Examine your diet over the course of a week not the course of a day.

I had Heinz oxtail soup (which is my guilty pleasure) and a cheese sandwich for my lunch. No way is a whole can less than 200 calories???

I ocassionally have tomato soup and bread for dinner but regularly have homemade soup (and no bread). That said my partners homemade soup is thick enough to stand the spoon up in and is a meal in itself.

I love Heinz tomato soup. And crusty white bread. As a lunch though. But if he's hungry and he's had cereal? Problem averted.

I often have soup and bread in the evening but I prefer to eat my main meal at lunchtime. Decent breakfast too. I am starving all day otherwise.

Worst thing about tinned soup is a whole tin is too much and half a tin isn't enough. They sometimes have the smaller cans but there is much less choice and they often cost more due to larger more common sizes being on offer.

Bibbity

Bit bemused by all the scandalised posters questioning the tin of soup each. A tin each?? I couldn't eat a WHOLE one!
There's only about a mug full in a tin, isn't there?

Perfectly fine, soup and bread is a common dinner or lunch (which is a main meal here) where I live, and I grew up with regular soup and bread meals.