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?

Horses for courses - some are happy with it, my OH would rarely be happy with that unless he wasn't hungry or unwell. To be honest, I wouldn't have it as it just doesn't fill me up but it isn't a big deal. If OH wants more food, he can get more food.

One point - a PP said butter provided protein? That is wrong, butter = fat.

I like home made soup, I find tinned soup too salty and I end up downing loads of water then needing the loo all night! Dh and ds eat loads so it wouldn't be enough for them- ds doesn't like soup anyway. So, fine for me but not for them. They'd happily eat scrambled eggs on toast instead.

It's more than enough for dinner. My dh is sporty, goes to the gym, and climbs, and even he is satisfied with soup and bread for dinner. People posting that they wouldn't be probably eat too much.

I'd be starving after two hours. But I have a big appetite and like protein!

I would want more protein in a meal than that, but that's easily solved by having soup with a cheese sandwich.

I like soup & bread. Sometimes it's ok for dinner, but other times I want to 'eat' not 'drink' my dinner. It's 'tummy filling' but not 'mouth satisfying'. Unless I eat way too much bread (toast!) which I TRY not to.

I'm with your DH. I wouldn't count that as a proper dinner. It might be enough for small children but definitely not for adults.

We sometimes have homemade minastone soup and bread for tea, but we'll have a pudding too.

I don't find soup filling but I was shocked that a tin of Heinz soup cost £1 in Tesco. A £1 when did that happen?

For me lunch yes, dinner no.

We have tinned soup with toasted cheese sandwiches on thick sliced wholemeal bread. The soup fulfills the veg component a bit.

Having one vegan dd, one veggie dd, and an excessively meat eating DH, I think that's a perfectly reasonable one off evening meal. It would definitely be enough for me and both dds. If they are hungry later, they know where the fridge is, and if they are too young to cook for themselves they can just say they are still a bit hungry and you can give them some peanut butter on toast and a satsuma to make it healthy.

My DH would prolly make himself a bit of cheese on toast before he went to bed if he felt cheated on dinner. He wouldn't be arsed about it though.
You are not being unreasonable. It's a one - off meal out of hundreds of meals that you regularly provide. Nobody will starve as a result of you being a bit overwhelmed by the pressure of having to provide meat and two veg on this particular occasion. Late food delivery and all.

I think your DH is a bit unreasonable, if you really want to know.

If it was homemade soup then I would have said yes, but not tinned soup, it's processed crap really.

Loving the idea of these sparrow appetite folk who could never manage a whole tin.

I like making soup, but also have tins of vegetable soup in. Soup and bread is only ever a snack meal here - such as saturday lunch time.

After a day of hard work typing etc I would feel hard done to with just soup for tea - and would probably go out for chips.

We've had pea, potato and pesto soup for dinner, no bread. Fine dinner here, especially if we're eating late because one of us has been out exercising. I don't like to eat heavily after cardio.

Though this evening we've followed it with a slice of cheesecake each which I made for friends who came round for Sunday lunch!

I buy a pack of soup that's supposed to be for two servings - I could easily wolf it down. :P

When I add egg and a ton of veggies to it, it's ok though, I get filled up.

Meh. We have soup one night a week (usually tinned). They have yogurt and fruit for pudding.

I often have half a tub of fresh soup and a couple of oat cakes for dinner. Standard for me.

Loving the idea of these sparrow appetite folk who could never manage a whole tin

Occasionally they go wild and will roast a chicken wing. To be divided between 4.

No it's not a proper dinner, tell him to get a take away. My dh woukd be the same.

Hmm, I think there's a big difference between tinned and homemade. To me, tinned is firmly lunch unless you are ill, it's not a proper meal. Homemade is different - it's more filling for a start, and you can have a proper big bowl of soup. Tinned soup fills me at lunch, but wouldn't as a main meal. A big bowl of leek and potato and a big hunk of baguette fills me though.

That's what we had tonight
All 4 kids had a cooked dinner (I'm northern, it's dinner and tea ) and the meals are really good at our school

YANBU on not providing him a different meal though, despite my personal opinions on tinned soup as a meal. We all have days when we can't be bothered to cook, and if he didn't fancy tinned soup then he could have made some egg on toast/beans on toast/pasta. Your dh isn't BU either - he's making himself something later, he's not suggesting you cook him a different meal. I don't think anyone is BU - you cba to cook (fair enough), you made food you and kids were happy with (fair enough) and he doesn't want that and will cook for himself (fair enough)

^I couldn't eat a whole apple, those that could and maybe some grapes are probably the reason why everyone's obese
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Depends how big the tin was. Some are meant to be individual, others for two. A demi-baguette is a lot of bread though.

I'd happily have a half tin (of a big tin) and half or a third of a demi-baguette for a meal.